Chris Collins, a former model shaped by Harlem and international fashion, founded World of Chris Collins in 2018 after developing a lifelong connection to fragrance. The brand works with expert perfumers to create luxury scents that turn personal experience into stories, with particular attention to the cultural exchange between Harlem and Paris.
Arm's ReachFounded by Chauncey Brown in 2022, Arm's Reach creates prestige fragrances rooted in Black experience, translating memory, culture, and lived experience into scent. Brown’s background in qualitative research, education, and time spent in Mexico and Ghana informs a community-interview methodology behind the brand’s debut BLACK IV collection. The company describes itself as a fragrance house built from the inside, by and for the Black community.
Le Cherche MidiBorn from a quiet Parisian address more than 25 years ago, Le Cherche Midi creates fine fragrances designed to evoke a private moment of calm, along with scented candles and sachets. Cynthia Carlson is the exclusive owner and director of its signature fragrance, formerly known as “Nantucket” and “01,” which is available through Carlson’s Fine Jewelry in Naples, Florida.NEW YORK, 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
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