Journal

Nick Yeast is the proud founder of the Nick Ricardo Collection, a non-binary fragrance brand breaking social barriers in the beauty and cosmetic industry with a mission to slash gender norms and elevate voices of Black, non binary, transgender, and gender non-conforming individuals. We...

    When did you fall down the rabbit hole of perfumery?   I started designing perfume in1991 as a part time job in Boston, while I was in Art School. I convinced the owner of the shop to hire me...

    Do you teach or do any experiential projects? If so, what and where? I haven’t taught the experimental use of scent as I am currently exploring it myself! I started working with scent outside of the traditional confines...

  When did you fall down the rabbit hole of perfumery? Were you a fragrance as a child?  I have always loved and worn fragrance. The perfume making bug hit me hard when I was trying to make some on...

   What are you most proud of in your fragrance career?   It’s funny, “proud” is a difficult emotion for me to own as a highly self-critical A-type personality—I tend to obsess instead on what can be improved. But if...

    When did you fall down the rabbit hole of perfumery? My journey creating authentic perfume started in 2013. Before that, I used to go to Venice Beach head shops and blend my own fragrance oils. I was a...

  When did you fall down the rabbit hole of perfumery? Were you a fragrance as a child? It was in autumn 2009, when I fulfilled a long held wish to treat myself in a workshop “make your own perfume”...