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Reading about independent perfume: what the season smells like, who is making what, and how one material behaves in a hundred different hands.
Maker profiles. One house, its hands and its house style.
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Abby Hinsman has been listing perfumes since 2013 in three concentrations and a few fixed price bands, and the shape of the catalogue is as telling as the smells.
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Thirteen eau de parfum entries from Buenos Aires whose regional detail sits in the materials, from yerba mate to Gran Chaco guaiac wood, rather than…
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The Vietnamese house reached the Independent category of the 12th Art and Olfaction Awards with ink and whisky, but its everyday catalogue is a…
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Maker profile
Cat Marx made perfume oils from 1996 and opened the Minneapolis shop in 2010; since her death in 2020, her business partner John has run it with her…
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Three mornings a week the journal publishes one piece about independent perfume, drawn from the same catalogue as the rest of the site: 21 articles so far, every one of them linking back to the houses and the notes it talks about. It is published by Undernotes; nothing in it is sponsored, and no link is an affiliate link.
