scent
small-batch wearable scents intended to subvert and empower
gorgeous creature [signature]
this scent is about approaching life with passion and intensity! subverting expectations and challenging norms. it’s earthy and grounded. a lil naughty, a lil nice. It considers desire. the scent profile starts bright and green with grassy top notes. The middle is herbal and slightly medicinal. The base notes are warm, resinous and smokey.
there were many scenes in my head that i was seeing when i made it. i was imagining being outside at night in a landscape lit by a full moon in a damp field near the edge of a dark forest. something also evocative of the last scene in the film ‘the witch’.
there is also a ‘holy + ‘pious’ quality to this scent—something i wanted to play with—taking notes that are typically experienced in one space [church] and put them in an entirely different context. Wrapping the things that are holy to me—love, the natural world, feeling alive, greeting the world as fully as i possibly can—in these notes.
This glass heart vessel is a concept bottle I designed and hand cast in glass to evoke qualities of the scent. The stopper when seen through the heart evokes a small dagger going through the middle—I was thinking about courage and vulnerability. How our greatest pains can give us our greatest strength.
I sculpted a model and the hollow core in clay and then used lost-wax method to make the piece. after casting, I coldworked the flames. It is the first piece of glass i’ve made and i’m grateful for all that it has taught me.
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curiosity + play
I love working with scent because i find it extremely playful and a bit mischievous. it fuels my curiosity about so many things. It is simultaneously grounding. the more i work with it, the more i understand how powerful it is as tool to activate our senses, our memories, our erotic imaginations.
the scents i’m interested in making and wearing eliminate the gender binary and instead, focus on what it means to evoke desire. the tension between what is traditionally considered masculine and feminine is an aspect of my own identity that i have wrestled with in many ways.
i have always had a sensitivity to smell, especially from a very young age. often it would overwhelm me and i would not know what to do with my resulting emotions. as i’ve gotten older I realize my relationship to scent is connected to qualities around energy and intuition, something i’m learning to trust more.