It’s Wednesday and National Punctuation Day. PSA: the swapmeet is still open for business! Birthdays: Jim Henson, F. Scott Fitzgerald. What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: still sick, still commando, and very behind on reading comments. I will catch up eventually.
Reminder: 9/26 is the first Friday in Autumn…
Hall set out on a business plan in October 2024, and within months, she had a small business loan and a lease on a retail space in downtown Salt Lake City. In July, she opened Solvi, offering perfumes by Chicago indie brand Pearfat and Australian label Peosym, for example. On her first day, she had 500 customers.
— Read more in From Salt Lake City to Atlanta: Why niche perfume stores are popping up across the country at Glossy.
It’s Tuesday and the second day of Autumn. (Musical birthdays today: John Lomax, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Julio Iglesias, Bruce Springsteen, Ani DiFranco.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando because I’m still pretty sick. I just finished a cup of Cascadia Breakfast from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Co and I’ve got a pot of Rose Hip + Hibiscus + cinnamon chunks brewing.
Reminder: 9/26 is the first Friday in Autumn…
Beyond creating its own fragrances, Liberty has increased the footprint of its fragrance counter in response to the growing perfume boom. In 2024, the store opened its purposefully low-tech Fragrance Lounge to offer customers a more intimate fragrance shopping experience away from the main shopping floor. It is not the only major retailer to do so: In September, Nordstrom remodeled the beauty section of its New York City location with an expanded fragrance offering.
— Read more in Liberty London is betting on fragrance’s ongoing growth with the North American launch of its in-house perfume brand at Glossy.
The swapmeet is open for business! Meanwhile, a lazy weekend poll. As always, answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just talk about something else.
1. Describe a perfume that you wish existed but doesn’t, so far as you know, and tell us what brand (or what perfumer) should make it.
2. Name a book that has stayed with you years after reading it, and what’s the best matching perfume? (And PSA, our fall reading poll is coming up next month.)
3. You can have one bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $350. Don’t overthink it, it’s just a fantasy — name your pick!
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — any bit of good news, a fantastic TV series you’re binge-watching, something delicious you cooked recently, something fun you did — really, anything.