The stormy weather today is reminding us of our perfume Happy Trails. Inspired by rainy day hikes when we lived in Seattle 🌲

LFG Mayor Cardamom!!! 🎊

Can you guess what we're tincturing? We've been enamored with the idea of exploring the aromatics of fermentation. A culinary and medicinal staple in so many cultures, the scent palate is *immense* but underused. #perfumesky #perfumery

Weapons was unexpectedly gutting. Adults in various positions of power constantly failing children and how trauma transforms people irrevocably.

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

Me: hmm, should I read this 1988 sci-fi-novel The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?

The pines did in fact make the "cookie" more Cookie 🤷🏿‍♀️😂 Amazing!

No Kings makes us feel very conflicted. Yes, large marches provide visibility and an opportunity to connect with likeminded people. But here in LA, No Kings had a significant cooling effect on the smaller more confrontational protests that actually impeded 🧊

Sometimes perfumery makes me feel insane, because what do you mean cookies have overlapping molecules with pine trees???

We've been working on designing new packaging for the past 1 year+ and had the eye opening revelation that a lot of "U.S. manufacturers" are really just English speaking middlemen who send your project to still be manufactured abroad in China, Turkey, Vietnam etc.

Hot girl stuff this week: finished recreating the smell of a lightning storm. An accord that is both cool air, thick atmosphere, and lingering electric heat ⛈️ #perfumesky

Sadly this is a common dynamic for ceasefires. Violence often intensified dramatically right before parties come to the table as military forces try to grab as much land/leverage as possible. Or in this case, get in as much killing and destruction as possible before the deadline.

#Jinx from #arcane as a perfume: gunpowder, industrial smog, spray paint, mutated zaun fruit (apple with a hint of cannabis)

Pepper materials evaluation with our friends at D.Grayi. One of these is 500k scovilles & two of us found out the spicy way 🥵 #perfumesky #perfumery

Can we talk about Chad Powers and how it's not actually telling an underdog story? Russ aka Chad torpedoes his career & spends nearly a decade believing he's a victim. Instead of owning his shortcomings, he schemes his way back into the limelight. #Chadpowers

Arcane is a gorgeous allegory for duality. The technologically advanced utopia that can only exist at the cost of an impoverished and abused undercity, held in the strangle hold of the utopian city's unchecked ambition. #arcane

"Death and Other Joys," the perfume we drafted in tandem during our 6 hr residency with Craft Contemporary and IAO is balanced on the connective tissue between grief and joy. Death is real, loss is real, and joy becomes sharper by contrast. #perfumesky #perfume

Reading "Blindsight" by Peter Watts and the foreword by Elizabeth Bear has been on my mind as we see pple succumb to cold indifference as protection from grief and feeling helpless. #booksky

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Hihi Perfume lovers! We're setting up a fundraiser raffle to support street vendors being targeted by ICE here in LA! All we need are your unused/gently used perfumes to create prize bundles for raffle winners! DM if youd like to contribute 🫶 #perfumesky #perfume #sotd

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Using freshly acquired photoshop skills to put our friends baby in outlandish settings 👶🏽

Is it just my algorithm or is 2000s-esque emo pop punk making a comeback??

Chasing dopamine by learning heritage crafts! Made a pillow case yesterday 🥳

Big news everyone! My perfume The Space Between has been nominated for an Art & Olfaction Award! I'm so pumped right now. Being nominated feels like a win already! Bottles sold out immediately last night after the press release and I am batching again to restock ASAP. Get samples while you can!

Last night @fumfragrances.bsky.social was announced as a finalist for the Art and Olfaction awards for her perfume, The Space Between!!!CONGRATULATIONS, MISS LAYLA 🎊🙌🤌 #perfumesky #fragrancesky

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

Unhoused folks have peak humor 😭 During our supply drop today, one of our skidrow neighbors was feeling particularly chatty & his friend turned & told us "now you know why he's homeless. He can't shut tf up" Like damn, the man just wanted to tell us a story 😂

Hello friends, make sure you're getting enough iodine in your nutrition! If you eat a lot of cruciferous veggies (kale, broccoli, cabbage...), beans, soy, they actually inhibit your body processing iodine. Low iodine can lead to goiters & thyroid issues which are on the rise due to wellness trends 😅

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

This material would be great for recreating a full guava scent experience - tree, skin, and pulp. #perfumery #perfumesky #fragrance #materialoftheday

Reminder to friends returning to the U.S. from abroad: delete your social media apps prior to catching your flight. You can always re-download them. But they don't need to be on your phone going through customs.

Does censorship or graphic imagery desensitize pple more/differently? Especially after witnessing a genocide for 500 days, it's unclear to me what the answer is. Saw a critique of a TV show that has an assault scene that called it edgy & unnecessary

I guess I'm wearing different pants today 🥹

I love this sport! Sometimes it involves running and obsessing over hands

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Your future self smells intriguing 🍅 #perfumesky #sotd #fragrance samarpitcrew.com

In addition to libraries, community colleges can have some great lower cost resources! The one near us offers a month of sewing classes ($119, all supplies included), Muay Thai ($69), Photoshop ($99), Spanish ($95)!

We're perfumers btw! Curious noses come to us when they want to smell like tomato leaves, dirt, tea, (un)hallowed grounds, a speakeasy or a freshly split open mandarin orange #perfumesky #fragrancesky #sotd

Rewatching Handmaid's Tale (bc why not 🫠) and this time around I can't stop thinking about Janine. She's dismissed as crazy but consistently sees the potential for goodness. For her, a flower laden wedding ceremony for a woman on her deathbed in a labor colony is not only worthwhile, it's necessary

Recommendations, please: Working on organizing our perfume studio & we're finally ready for some wall shelves! Since we're now in LA, we need them to be earthquake resistant so our materials wont fall off. We work out of our apartment so we'd prefer theyre slender/ aesthetically subtle! Ty 🫶

The staff at Perfumer's World were kind enough to give us uninterrupted time to smell at least 100 materials in their collection! The environment they've built for employees & students is such a cute, whimsical village! Have you smelled any of these? Curious? #perfumery #perfumesky #indieperfume

Osmanthus Dragon's Beard Candy! The most recent treat to delight us! A fluffy, incomparable texture (not even cotton candy) that melts in our mouth. A slighty crispy peanut sugar center and bitter little osmanthus buds on top. Smells floral, nutty, and similar to shortbread cookies! #perfumesky

Met some Canadians while out of the country who did a not-so-subtle "how do they feel about Trump test" on us and were then surprised to learn that many Americans support their boycott 😅

3 YAYs & a MEH: 1. Found a great farmers market & lots of fun little treats. 2. A nice stranger at the market led us to a booth w the most perfect mandarins (& yes, they did smell like our perfume Grove is in the Heart) #perfumesky 3. A vendor said she knew we were gay bc we look happy 💀 MEH:

I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed

Returning to the U.S. and feeling comforted by close proximity to friends and discomfitted by the strange weight of running a small business in the midst of a fascist takeover.

Take a whiff of this!

I think she missed us lmao

Reading through the short stories nominated for the 2025 Nebula Awards and "The V*mpire" by PH Lee is a fever dream callback to Tumblr circa 2012 when everyone was learning about oppression & privilege and very little about nuance & complexity. A messy & intense read