The Independent noses

Chicago, USA

Alie Kiral

Founder of Pearfat Parfum, creating personal, expressive fragrances shaped by art and memory.

Bainbridge Island, USA

Anjali Vandemark

Self taught perfumer whose handcrafted fragrances draw on her Indian heritage, spices and treasured scent memories.

Christi Meshell

Founder of House of Matriarch, composing layered fragrances from rare materials and evocative stories.

Montréal, Canada

Dana El Masri

Founder of Jazmin Saraï, exploring connections between scent, music and culture.

London, UK

Ezra-Lloyd Jackson

Perfumer whose work draws on London, cultural memory and the unexpected beauty of everyday places.

Seattle, USA

Gatsby Yeh

Taiwan-born perfumer Gatsby Yeh founded Seattle-based Nose of Gatsby. Their fragrances turn personal memories and imagined worlds into scent.

Hans Hendley

Self taught artisan perfumer whose work explores the tension between human control and the natural world.

San Francisco, USA

Ineke Rühland

Classically trained perfumer who blends traditional technique with a love of design, literature and storytelling.

Joshua Smith

Self taught perfumer and founder of Libertine Fragrance, led by a fascination with scent materials themselves.

Juan M. Pérez

Artisan perfumer whose study of plants and aromatic materials informs his imaginative compositions.

Los Angeles, USA

Linda Sivrican

Founder of Capsule Parfumerie, combining precise formulation with a playful sense of discovery

Loreto Remsing

Self taught perfumer and founder of LAROMATICA and LARŌ, inspired by plants, landscapes and her Chilean heritage.

San Francisco Bay Area, USA

Mauricio Garcia

Founder of Herbcraft Perfumery, inspired by plants, ritual and the landscapes of the Pacific coast.

London, UK

Maya Njie

Perfumer whose fragrances revisit family photographs and memories of her Swedish and West African heritage.

New York metro area, USA

Michael Nordstrand

Independent perfumer and founder of Mythologist Studio, exploring history, atmosphere and emotion through scent.

Miss Layla

Cook-turned-perfumer behind fūm, connecting the culinary arts with a synesthetic approach to scent.

Nour Akoum

French-Lebanese independent perfumer with a background in chemistry and fragrance studies, creating scents that translate personal stories and emotions.

Persephenie

Los Angeles perfumer and incense maker exploring natural aromatic materials, historic techniques and fragrant traditions from different cultures.

Rachel Latimer

Experimental scent designer and instructor associated with DANE Fragrance, exploring shared human experiences through concept-driven perfumery.

Rodney Hughes

The nose behind Therapeutate Parfums, bringing an artistic approach to fragrance creation and sharing the craft through perfumery teaching.

Sam Macer

Independent British perfumer with a chemistry background, exploring imaginative fragrance worlds while helping others learn the art of perfumery.

Sanae Barber

Perfumer exploring the expressive range of natural and synthetic materials through fragrance, incense and collaborations in scent design.

Sarah McCartney

Writer-turned-perfumer behind 4160Tuesdays, handcrafting adventurous small-batch fragrances with a story at their heart.

Shabnam Tavakol

Founder of Kismet Olfactive, translating memory, cultural heritage and unexpected connections into intimate, expressive fragrances.

Shelley Waddington

Founder of En Voyage Perfumes, creating fragrant stories inspired by art, literature, natural materials and the world around her.

Spyros Drosopoulos

Neuroscientist-turned-perfumer and founder of BARUTI, bringing a fascination with sensory experience to experimental fragrance creation.

Sydney Buffman

Multidisciplinary artist behind SYD Botanica, exploring the connections between scent, emotion, imagined worlds and the subconscious.

Tanaïs

Writer and independent fragrance creator whose work connects scent, memory and South Asian perfume cultures.

Terry Carter

Founder and perfumer of Travertine Spa Collection. For Joyful Nostalgia, he draws on the restorative quiet of a snowy Japanese onsen retreat.

Tyler Monk

Self-taught perfumer behind LuVandus, creating personal, genderless fragrances with a focus on the wearer and the art of composition.

Vanessa Lopez

Perfumer with a background in biology and analytical chemistry, creating fragrances inspired by travel, emotion and personal memory.