Meghan and Damoon are the Brooklyn-based founders behind Fumum, a fragrance company that began with the couple mixing tiny batches in their apartment. Meghan brings experience as a brand strategist, while Damoon is a self-taught perfumer who has spent ten years developing scents and their visual identity. Fumum builds its fragrances with input from people who smell and test them in everyday life, rather than sorting them into gendered categories or chasing trends.
OursideFrom a small-batch workspace in the Bronx, Ourside makes unisex fragrances inspired by daydreams, memory, and the experience of growing up between cultures. Founded by Keta, the Black-owned fragrance house hand-pours its scents in limited runs, using Italian glass and formulas that are clean, vegan, and Leaping Bunny certified.
ES-84 PARFUMSLed by longtime creative collaborators Parker Manis and Ricky Chapman, ES-84 PARFUMS is a New York fragrance company that creates concept-driven scents and packaging as physical interpretations of human experience. Also known as EAU SHIT, the partnership treats fragrance as a psychological and social object, using products such as its Moment Totál travel vial to invite reflection and conversation. Its fragrances are produced in Grasse, France.NEW YORK, NY
Brooklyn Candle StudioFounded by Tamara Mayne in 2013 after candle-making began as a hobby, Brooklyn Candle Studio has grown into a Brooklyn-based maker shaped by its founder’s design background and love of nature. Its in-house artisans hand-pour and label home fragrance in a 20,000-square-foot Industry City workshop, creating minimalist candles with botanical scents for people seeking a calmer atmosphere at home.BROOKLYN, NY
OUI the PeopleFounded by Karen Young, OUI the People is an independent fragrance and bodycare house creating fine scents rooted in Caribbean memory, ritual, and skin. Raised in Guyana and shaped by Flatbush, Brooklyn, Young draws on those experiences and French perfumery to make intimate, modern fragrances that wear close to the body. The collection’s signature approach turns personal memories—from condensed milk tea to warm Caribbean nights—into wearable stories.BROOKLYN, NY