{"id":18408,"date":"2025-05-31T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:48:50","slug":"scent-fair-la-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/scent-fair-la-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Scent Fair L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/scent-fair-la-2025\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?fit=1500%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scent fair la haul &amp;#8211; jouissance, pearfat, zernell gillie, kst parfums\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;scent fair la haul &amp;#8211; jouissance, pearfat, zernell gillie, kst parfums&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18409\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?resize=840%2C1120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"scent fair la haul - jouissance, pearfat, zernell gillie, kst parfums\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/scent-fair-la-haul-jouissance-pearfat-zernell-gillie-kst-parfums.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My life may be steeped in fragrance, but I&#8217;m not fully entrenched in the indie perfume scene yet, regrettably. I&#8217;m enamored by independent houses and have a sizeable personal collection dedicated to them, but much of my work is vested in the niche-luxury to luxury designer space. Being unaware of Scent Week here in Los Angeles was merely an inadvertent byproduct of my focus\u2014not for lack of interest. In fact, I might&#8217;ve missed the <a href=\"https:\/\/artandolfaction.com\/projects\/biennial-scent-fair-los-angeles\/\">Scent Fair L.A.<\/a> altogether if not for a coffee stroll past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftcontemporary.org\/scent-fair-la-2025\/https:\/\/www.craftcontemporary.org\/scent-fair-la-2025\/\">Craft Contemporary<\/a>. It was pure happenstance: a new exhibit combining the visual and olfactory senses, coupled with a little perfume bazaar of indie brands around the world? I couldn&#8217;t dream up a more perfect Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recognized most of the stalls purely from past research and even met Cherry Cheng, the founder of Jouissance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jouissanceparfums.com\/products\/les-cahiers-secrets\"><em>Les Cahiers Secrets<\/em><\/a> is a favorite that I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/editorialist.com\/beauty\/sexiest-skin-scents\/#jouissance-les-cahiers-secrets\">written about for <em>Editoralist<\/em><\/a>). All others I was thrilled to finally explore in person, including: PerfumeTok darling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearfatparfum.com\/\">Pearfat Parfum<\/a>; the beloved, musically-inclined <a href=\"https:\/\/zernellgillie.com\/\">Zernell Gillie<\/a>; peerlessly cheeky <a href=\"https:\/\/lv1.studio\/pages\/about-lv1-studio\">KST Scent<\/a>; Canadian house <a href=\"https:\/\/paraphraseperfume.com\/\">Paraphrase<\/a> (formerly known as Libertine); poignant <a href=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/tag\/jazmin-sarai\/\">Jazmin Sara\u00ef<\/a>;\u00a0and winner of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artandolfactionawards.org\/\">Art &amp; Olfaction Awards<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegoldenpears.com\/2025-winners\">independent<\/a> category, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taleparfum.com\/\">Tale Parfum<\/a>. Naturally\u2014<em>in the name of beauty journalism!<\/em>\u2014I couldn&#8217;t resist picking up a few fragrances for the growing perfume library:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stele.nyc\/products\/jouissance-la-bague-do-eau-de-parfum\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jouissance\u00a0<em>La Bague d&#8217;O<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a beautiful vintage floral with bite\u2014like a bouquet bookended with petals pressed between pink pepper and primal musk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zernellgillie.com\/products\/jazz\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Zernell Gillie <em>Jazz<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which I can&#8217;t wait to wear on cooler summer nights or autumn evenings, especially when I&#8217;m back in New York. It&#8217;s honeyed tobacco, smooth cocoa, a bourbon, neat; a perfume to be worn with slinky dresses or a really good suit.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taleparfum.com\/products\/fleurt\">Tale\u00a0<em>Fleurt<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a perfume for the soubrette in summer. Sexy, flirtatious, and decidedly so. It could be narcotic with the right outfit and a dose of self-assuredness. (If I were shopping for my personal fragrance wardrobe, I would&#8217;ve picked up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taleparfum.com\/products\/water-me\"><em>Water<\/em>\u00a0<em>Me<\/em><\/a><\/span>. It&#8217;s soul-quenching\u2014a grown-up version of another favorite, <a href=\"https:\/\/editorialist.com\/beauty\/best-unisex-fragrances\/#best-for-everyday-wear-d-s-durga-steamed-rainbow\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">D.S. &amp; Durga <em>Steamed Rainbow<\/em><\/span><\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lv1.studio\/products\/tambae\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KST Scent\u00a0<em>Tambae<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> (easy, effortless, a hint of tea\u2014very much for the intelligentsia who once loved Le Labo but craves something singular); and two from their Pride collection, launching soon. I don&#8217;t care for &#8220;divine feminine&#8221; propaganda being wielded as new-age feminism, but if the concept were untainted by alt-right ideology, <a href=\"https:\/\/lv1.studio\/products\/kissa-kitty\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kissa Kitty<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lv1.studio\/products\/bpussy-power\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BPussy Power<\/strong><\/span><\/a> embody it.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleunour.com\/products\/neon-violette\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bleu Nour\u00a0<em>Neon Violette<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, a vibrant love story to the parma violet. Not vintage, but an homage reimagined by the bona fide Gen Z cool girl. (To be ordered soon; they were out of inventory by noon.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearfatparfum.com\/shoppearfat\/p\/breadrosespearfathttps:\/\/www.pearfatparfum.com\/shoppearfat\/p\/breadrosespearfat\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pearfat\u00a0<em>Bread and Roses<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(it lives up to its name beautifully) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearfatparfum.com\/shoppearfat\/p\/i-broke-my-own-heart-eau-de-parfum\"><em><strong>I Broke My Own Heart<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span> (which captures the full-body feeling of writing in a composition notebook\u2014your diary\u2014as a teen girl with big dreams, but only after swiping on a thick layer of chocolate-flavored Smackers).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">.\u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life may be steeped in fragrance, but I&#8217;m not fully entrenched in the indie perfume scene yet, regrettably. I&#8217;m enamored by independent houses and have a sizeable personal collection dedicated to them, but much of my work is vested in the niche-luxury to luxury designer space. Being unaware of Scent Week here in Los Angeles was merely an inadvertent byproduct of my focus\u2014not for lack of interest. In fact, I might&#8217;ve missed the Scent Fair L.A. altogether if not for a coffee stroll past the Craft Contemporary. It was pure happenstance: a new exhibit combining the visual and olfactory senses, coupled with a little perfume bazaar of indie brands around the world? I couldn&#8217;t dream up a more perfect Saturday afternoon. I recognized most of the stalls purely from past research and even met Cherry Cheng, the founder of Jouissance (Les Cahiers Secrets is a favorite that I&#8217;ve written about for Editoralist). 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