Atlanta, Georgia
If you found me through the bottles at Scented Cottage, welcome. I’m John, the person behind Workflow. These are seven fragrances from my workshop. Find the name on the bottle you’re smelling, read what’s behind it, and tell me which one you’d want to see released.
These fragrances are here to experience. They’re not currently available for purchase.
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Pearbella
I’d just received an order from Fraterworks full of materials I’d never smelled before. I started putting a few together, changing the ratios and dilutions, trying to see what I could make out of them. The pear kept coming through. That was Pear Belle, the material that gave Pearbella its name. I wanted something pretty, green and floral, but I also wanted something underneath it to keep me interested. Himalayan camphor, old Wild Khus vetiver and a little Phusung oud brought that contrast. The pear is still there, with a greener, earthier feeling around it. When I smelled that combination, it clicked.
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Feral Honey
I love Zoologist. Their fragrances made me want to try making something animalic myself. Honey Supreme caught my attention because there was something raw and animalic in it already. I wanted to build a honey fragrance around that, then find something to push against the sweetness. I kept picturing eating a piece of honeycomb while it was still in the hive, with bees swarming around my face. Honey dripping from a hive in a tree, everything alive and moving around it. That’s what Feral Honey smells and feels like to me. You can smell the honey, but there’s this intense, dirty, living smell around it that keeps it from turning into another sweet, sticky honey fragrance. That contrast was what I was after.
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Imperial Tea
Jesse’s section is my favorite part of Scented Cottage. There are all these different fragrance houses on display, but being in the place she owns and smelling her own work meant something different to me. I felt like I was getting to know another perfumer through what she’d made. Her tea collection stopped me. I hadn’t given tea fragrances much thought before that, and I fell in love with them. After that visit, I ordered my first tea material, Black Tea Supreme, and built Imperial Tea around it. I’d love to make a tea collection of my own someday. This is my first step. I wanted something anyone could wear, rich and a little grand, with an ancient feeling to it. Then I wanted to bring that feeling into the present. Tea is at the center of that meeting between old and new. That’s where the name Imperial Tea came from.
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Mummy Musk
I started imagining ancient Egypt, the people who lived there, and what a beautiful woman’s perfume might have smelled like. At the same time, I kept thinking about the dry cloth used to wrap a mummy. I wanted to bring those two pictures together: something pretty and elegant against something dry, almost dusty. That was the idea behind Mummy Musk. An Egyptian-musk skin scent with a softness you want to get closer to, and that dry feeling running through it. This is my own imagined version of that world. The part that interested me was how those two sides could belong in the same fragrance.
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Infinity
Whiskey collectors sometimes keep an infinity bottle. They pour a little from different bottles into one, keep adding to it, and let it become something of its own. I wanted to do that with my fragrances. Infinity started with my early test studies poured into one batch. From here, I’m going to keep adding a little of each fragrance I create. The bottle keeps changing as I keep working. It holds pieces of where I started and whatever comes next. There isn’t a final formula I’m trying to reach. The point is to keep it going.
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Efferberry
I wanted to make a strawberry fragrance that a grown woman would want to wear. Light, effervescent, uplifting and sexy. I didn’t want sticky sweetness or something that smelled like dessert. Camphor ended up doing a lot of work here. It helped me get that lift I was looking for and take the strawberry in a different direction. That was the whole idea: keep the strawberry, give it some air, and make something that feels grown.
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Somewhere Unknown
When I smell this, I picture silently floating down the Amazon River. The water carries me along, and the smell of flowers drifts over from the banks. It’s peaceful, but there’s something eerie about it too. I don’t know what’s around the next bend. I just keep moving through it. That’s the place this fragrance puts me, and that’s why I called it Somewhere Unknown.