Universal Flowering inc
CanadaTorontoCourtney Rafuseest. 2016
Universal Flowering is a perfume house made in Montreal by perfumer Courtney Rafuse, who has made perfume under the name since 2016. The range includes Étude in Black, Big Night, Venus in Tuberose and a series of numbered poems.
Catalogue
15 fragrances
Prices
$85–180
Checked
Oct 4, 2026
In their own words
Reproduced from their about page. The words are theirs.
Courtney Rafuse has been making perfume under the name Universal Flowering since 2016.
Each perfume is a romantic extension of the perfumer herself, in dialogue with the liminal, the erotic, and what memory does to it afterward. Her approach is synesthetic, on the theory that our senses are not separate.
She has worked with visual artists, fashion designers, and novelists. Universal Flowering has been featured in Nylon, Airmail, The Globe and Mail, and the BBC. The two most recent perfumes, Étude in Black and Big Night, were introduced at Stele, in New York, on November 20th, 2025.
Rafuse is also half of Gumamina, a house built with her friend Marissa Zappas, and the in-house perfumer for Eleasium, in Paris. She occasionally does freelance work ie private label, candles, scent for a home or a business, etc etc and can be contacted at courtney[@]universalflowering.com.
Catalogue
15 fragrances
Alphabetical. Prices are in the maker's currency and link to their own shop.
15 fragrancesSearch within Universal Flowering inc
Palette
Notes they reach for
The notes that appear most across the catalogue; the number is how many fragrances carry each.