The Bibliotheca Fragrance Discovery Set from Ellis Brooklyn: "A gorgeous library of Ellis Brooklyn scents featuring all six of the brand's eau de parfums. Built for playing and experimenting, spritz the fragrances solo or layer to find your own unique scent." Six 2 ml sprays, $20 at Ellis Brooklyn or Sephora.
As a New York City local, I’ve enjoyed observing the growing wave of independent fragrance lines based in the borough of Brooklyn. CB I Hate Perfume may have been one of the earlier and better-known names to set up shop, but now there are enough options to suit various tastes. One relative newcomer is Ellis Brooklyn, founded by Bee Shapiro, a former corporate lawyer and current beauty writer for The New York Times. I recently received a sample of Ellis Brooklyn’s Rrose in a Sephora order and gave it a try.
Rrose is a rose-centered “olfactive ode to Rrose Sélavy (a pun of Eros, C’est la Vie), the feminine alter ego of the author, artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp.” It was developed for Ellis Brooklyn by perfumer Jérôme Epinette…