Roundup
Smoke without incense: six indie perfumes that burn wood, not resin
Birch tar, gunpowder, scorched sandalwood and a fireplace full of pinyon: where smoke comes from when no censer is involved.
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Undernotes
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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.
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Roundup
The oil houses that built the goth-perfume aesthetic
Graveyard dirt, copal and fog machine were ordinary catalogue notes at four small American houses long before the seasonal spooky-scent roundups…
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About the journal
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.