I've always felt the world come alive through scent. Even as a kid, my nose picked up on things others didn’t — like the smell of rain in the air long before the first drop fell, or the tiniest bit of mold no one else seemed to notice.

I found some of my happiest moments in the scents around me. Like my neighbor’s sandalwood and ebony chess that I obsessed over, Nag Champa wafting from head shops in Santa Cruz, and Norwegian cardamom pastries fresh out of the oven. 

I started collecting fragrances as a teenager, casually at first. But eventually it became an obsession — I started learning everything I could about how perfumes are made by pouring through textbooks, buying raw ingredients, nose training, and hunting down as much perfumery literature as I could get my hands on.

I began experimenting with blends, trying to recreate the scents that had captured my imagination, and eventually creating new ones that were stuck in my mind’s eye like an olfactory painting. And that’s how I got here — an independent, self-taught, perfumer hoping that my creations bring a little beauty and fun to the world.