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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The stormy weather today is reminding us of our perfume Happy Trails. Inspired by rainy day hikes when we lived in Seattle 🌲

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The perfect way to celebrate!! 🎊🎊

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Can you guess what we're tincturing? We've been enamored with the idea of exploring the aromatics of fermentation. A culinary and medicinal staple in so many cultures, the scent palate is *immense* but underused. #perfumesky #perfumery

A photo in dark lighting that shows gold capped jars holding a thick tincture.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Weapons was unexpectedly gutting. Adults in various positions of power constantly failing children and how trauma transforms people irrevocably.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/10/2025

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

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LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Me: hmm, should I read this 1988 sci-fi-novel The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The pines did in fact make the "cookie" more Cookie 🤷🏿‍♀️😂 Amazing!

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

No Kings makes us feel very conflicted. Yes, large marches provide visibility and an opportunity to connect with likeminded people. But here in LA, No Kings had a significant cooling effect on the smaller more confrontational protests that actually impeded 🧊

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Weve been taught a very punishment forward mindset regardless of political alignment. If we truly believe safety, health, education etc are rights, then we work towards that even when we're pissed off at the people who've been propagandized to believe otherwise or that its impossible to achieve.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Sometimes perfumery makes me feel insane, because what do you mean cookies have overlapping molecules with pine trees???

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We've been working on designing new packaging for the past 1 year+ and had the eye opening revelation that a lot of "U.S. manufacturers" are really just English speaking middlemen who send your project to still be manufactured abroad in China, Turkey, Vietnam etc.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Whenever you come back, just know this is how fast Ill be buying tickets 😌

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hiii! Do you think you'll be back in LA before the end of the year?

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Immeasurably excited about revisiting the wild childhood fever dream that is Killer Klowns with the 4D viewing experience youve created!! 🤡🍿 Happy to hear that youre honoring your creativity and your body in the face of the ever present pressure to grind and produce 🤎

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hot girl stuff this week: finished recreating the smell of a lightning storm. An accord that is both cool air, thick atmosphere, and lingering electric heat ⛈️ #perfumesky

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Sichuan and Paprika extracts are quite good! The capsaicin has been isolated out and we're left with earthy, fruity (citrusy kinda hoppy), and anticipation - they smell like a hot thing waiting to surprise you but no hots!

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Sadly this is a common dynamic for ceasefires. Violence often intensified dramatically right before parties come to the table as military forces try to grab as much land/leverage as possible. Or in this case, get in as much killing and destruction as possible before the deadline.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#Jinx from #arcane as a perfume: gunpowder, industrial smog, spray paint, mutated zaun fruit (apple with a hint of cannabis)

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Pepper materials evaluation with our friends at D.Grayi. One of these is 500k scovilles & two of us found out the spicy way 🥵 #perfumesky #perfumery

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

But he can't truly redeem himself while pretending to be someone else and rejecting the reality that he is the cause of his own dissatisfaction. I hope the show doesnt give us a pat ending to neatly diffuse the tension bc theres so much potential.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Russ is insufferable & his only saving grace was his talent on the field. When he steps into his Chad mask & tries to get up to old antics, he's confronted by the fact that pple only gave him the time of day bc he had (greatly diminished) star power at his back. Now he knows how alone he truly is.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Can we talk about Chad Powers and how it's not actually telling an underdog story? Russ aka Chad torpedoes his career & spends nearly a decade believing he's a victim. Instead of owning his shortcomings, he schemes his way back into the limelight. #Chadpowers

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Two sisters, ever at (often) violent odds, living parallel lives where they each desperately seek belonging. Neither believing in their own capacity for goodness, but offering an abundance of forgiveness and second chances to those lucky enough to be loved by them. #arcane

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Arcane is a gorgeous allegory for duality. The technologically advanced utopia that can only exist at the cost of an impoverished and abused undercity, held in the strangle hold of the utopian city's unchecked ambition. #arcane

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We had fun exploring everyone's creations and the myths that inspired them! The show was really well attended and we had some lovely conversations 😊

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I think we forget that contrasts create our perceptions. We know what feeling really good means because we've experienced grief

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Death and Other Joys," the perfume we drafted in tandem during our 6 hr residency with Craft Contemporary and IAO is balanced on the connective tissue between grief and joy. Death is real, loss is real, and joy becomes sharper by contrast. #perfumesky #perfume

A Taiwanese person on the left and a Black person on the right both wearing N95 masks, all black outfits, their hands lightly touching. They are standing against a white wall with a ghostly image and jar containing ceramic beads soaked in perfume.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Reading "Blindsight" by Peter Watts and the foreword by Elizabeth Bear has been on my mind as we see pple succumb to cold indifference as protection from grief and feeling helpless. #booksky

A kobo reader in dark mode with a black case and white text on the screen and a fuzzy gray blanket underneath.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hihi Perfume lovers! We're setting up a fundraiser raffle to support street vendors being targeted by ICE here in LA! All we need are your unused/gently used perfumes to create prize bundles for raffle winners! DM if youd like to contribute 🫶 #perfumesky #perfume #sotd

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Using freshly acquired photoshop skills to put our friends baby in outlandish settings 👶🏽

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Is it just my algorithm or is 2000s-esque emo pop punk making a comeback??

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thank yooou! Excited to work on getting my seams more even on future projects, but pretty dang proud of this pillow 💕

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thank you so much!💕 Its not visible in the photo, but the pink has a patchy quality like quickly applied blush that I love!

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Chasing dopamine by learning heritage crafts! Made a pillow case yesterday 🥳

Image of a 16x16 pillow inside a blush pink fabric with peonies and greenery framed in ovals.

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fumfragrances @fumfragrances.com · 11/04/2025

Big news everyone! My perfume The Space Between has been nominated for an Art & Olfaction Award! I'm so pumped right now. Being nominated feels like a win already! Bottles sold out immediately last night after the press release and I am batching again to restock ASAP. Get samples while you can!

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Last night @fumfragrances.bsky.social was announced as a finalist for the Art and Olfaction awards for her perfume, The Space Between!!!CONGRATULATIONS, MISS LAYLA 🎊🙌🤌 #perfumesky #fragrancesky

A square perfume bottle, black top, with bold text that says Art For Your Nose. In the upper right corner is an elaborate seal that reads FINALIST, Art and Olfaction Awards.

Image of a caption that reads: A round of applause for Miss Layla, the sparkling nose behind FUM Fragrances!! 🎉🎉🎉🤌 Miss Layla is no longer on IG but you can catch her on Bluesky (@fum fragrances. bluesky. social).

Her award finalist perfume, The Space Between, embodies the slow practice of perfumery. Highlighting sustainably harvested copal resin from Puebla, Mexico that's then hand ground using a cured lava mocajete, tinctured for 9 months, filtered, and aged for an additional 3 months.

At the @artandolfaction finalists announcement we had the opportunity to enjoy a part of Miss Layla's artistry in this perfume - the base! A soft, mineral warmth that didn't feel quite earthbound and an elusive sweetness that I couldn't pin down at the time. I kept coming back to it, because it was playing at the edges of some of my favorite scent profiles! We would love the opportunity to smell The Space Between fresh when we can experience the full story (and when it's back in stock. CONGRATS 🎊🎊🙌)!!! For now though, you can haunt her very pretty site and make your wishlist ✨️
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A cutie with light skin, a wide brimmed hat, curly brown hair and denim blue outfit leaning on a steel table in front of a row of perfume samples.

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Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Unhoused folks have peak humor 😭 During our supply drop today, one of our skidrow neighbors was feeling particularly chatty & his friend turned & told us "now you know why he's homeless. He can't shut tf up" Like damn, the man just wanted to tell us a story 😂

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Yesss! I like that there's so many flavor options for nori too. I like spicy ones!

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hello friends, make sure you're getting enough iodine in your nutrition! If you eat a lot of cruciferous veggies (kale, broccoli, cabbage...), beans, soy, they actually inhibit your body processing iodine. Low iodine can lead to goiters & thyroid issues which are on the rise due to wellness trends 😅

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I could definitely see it! I think perfumes tend to focus on the sweet, immediately pleasant aspects. But we're of the mindset that most things need a bit of dirty to really shine.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This material would be great for recreating a full guava scent experience - tree, skin, and pulp. #perfumery #perfumesky #fragrance #materialoftheday

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Reminder to friends returning to the U.S. from abroad: delete your social media apps prior to catching your flight. You can always re-download them. But they don't need to be on your phone going through customs.

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samar.scent.studio @samarscentstudio.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Whew that's a then & now I wasn't ready for 🫠

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