Perfume reviews and recs from a fraghead obsessed with everything olfactory—plus an insider’s look at the fragrance world through interviews with perfumers and collectors. Guaranteed to make you smell better.
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A Perfumer’s State of the Union
If you follow any perfume people on instagram, you’ve very likely seen people sharing images from a new account called the Perfumers Union, which, right now, is the home base for an advocacy organization for perfumers and the global perfume...
Inside the Collection: Anna Dorn
Anna Dorn came on my radar when her book, Perfume & Pain, came out in 2024. No surprise, I received it as a gift not once but twice, and I’d already listened to the audiobook. It would have kept my attention even if it didn’t have scent wov...
The Malaysian perfume house that needs to be on your radar
It’s been a minute since sent me a mystery vial. We play a game sometimes where he sends me an unmarked sample of a fragrance and I smell it and write my reactions to it before I have any idea what it is. Then he reveals the fragrance to m...
Reimagining cult classics
One of the first posts I published on Dry Down Diaries was about mall scents. As a Gen X Jersey girl, it's inevitable that I have a deep nostalgia for going to the mall. I interviewed about 60 people for that post, and it was such a fun tri...
What my new house smells like
We get great light in our new home.
About a year ago I published a post on what my house smelled liked and a lot of you seemed to like it. Now that I'm in a new home, it felt like the right time to do another one. I thought a lot about wh...
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Creator Marketing Lead at Substack. Fragrance-obsessed oversharer. Former life in book publishing.
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