Known as a Brooklyn-based fragrance brand, Snif brings a playful, try-before-you-buy approach to scent. Its seven-day at-home trial lets customers experience a fragrance before deciding what to keep, while the brand’s vegan, cruelty-free formulas reflect its clean beauty standards.
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Compliance program
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.
NoteworthyNoteworthy is an intelligent fragrance house that creates perfumes matched to individuals through a 17-question quiz developed with behavioral scientists, then composed by master parfumeurs. Its fragrances are designed and made in the United States, with a 15-scent Signature Sampler for people who see themselves as more than one fragrance. The line is vegan and cruelty-free, excluding parabens, phthalates, and synthetic dyes.
C R Ξ Τ Ξ HOMEFounded in 2017 by pouring candles in a Brooklyn apartment, C R Ξ Τ Ξ HOME now hand-pours scented candles in New York’s Hudson Valley and extends those fragrances into room sprays, diffusers, and hand-care products. The brand uses cruelty-free, nontoxic materials and 100% vegetable wax, with scents designed to create what it calls “concrete memories” rather than sugary, cupcake-like aromas. It also brings the scent-making process to life through private candle- and room-spray-making events.
APOTHEKEBorn from Chrissy Fichte’s 2011 scent-making experiments in a Brooklyn kitchen, APOTHEKE creates handmade home and personal fragrances, including its signature candles and soaps. The Brooklyn-based brand opened its own factory in 2012 and continues to thoughtfully blend fragrances and handcraft candles and soaps there. Its fragrance-focused Studio also invites visitors to make custom candles and perfumes.BROOKLYN, NY