CLASS
Chypre

FEELINGS
Vibrant, Calming, Nostalgic, Safe, Ambiant

KEY INGREDIENTS
Top: Bergamot
Heart: Turkish Fig, Persian Black Tea, Lavender
Base: Amberwood, Oakmoss, Palo Santo

Studio Scent celebrates the mess that makes us us: used books and vintage records piled up around the room; a cup of steeped black tea next to last nights glass of wine; dusty tchotchkes on the oaken spice shelf; mary jane; palo santo smoke hovering over a vase of wilting lavender; allure coming from the bedroom; two soft figs in a bowl of oranges.

A sensual chypre, Studio Scent is structured around rich Turkish fig while blending bergamot with black tea notes, lavender with amberwood, and palo santo with oak moss. Warm and moody, this is an evocative home fragrance inviting bohemian spirits to the space in which we live and work.

I guess that this must be the place
Talking Heads

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Kismet Olfactive is a New York City-based independent fragrance studio founded by bohemian-perfumer Shabnam Tavakol. Born and raised in California, ShabnamFarsi for morning dew is the daughter of Iranian-immigrant parents who escaped the violent 1979 Revolution in Iran, relocating to the U.S. by way of hard-won efforts and a string of good fortune. Recognizing this fortuitous past, Kismet from the Persian qismat, meaning fate, or, what is meant to be translates the serendipitous moments that make up our lives into wearable scents.

Shabnam studied fragrance creation at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in South France. After graduating, she worked professionally in Paris and New York City, yet soon grew disappointed by the perfume industrys rigid conformity, privileging corporate hierarchy, political correctness, and a hard line between natural perfumery and fine fragrance large-fragrance-house perfumers seemed disconnected from clientele, pressured to formulate from marketing briefs, consumer-projections, pie charts, analytics. Seeking an alternative, Shabnam founded Kismet to establish a more intimate, inclusive, and naturals-integrative approach to fine fragrance creation.