Perfumed Pages · Programming history · 2024–present
This is beauty
worldbuilding.
Seven events across five formats in under two years. Cohorts, salons, sniff swaps, a book tour, the Against Orientalism series — each one grew from the last. Click any node to see how the ideas connect.
Why this page exists
This is an independent fragrance education built iteratively since 2024 — each event informed the next. The ideas, formats, and community that came from this work have shaped thinking well beyond this page. This is the record of how it happened.
International perfume briefs
Cohort members now workshop perfume briefs within the group — collaborating internationally on fragrance concepts that didn't exist before they started smelling together.
Launches in progress
Members have brainstormed to-be-launched perfumes inside the cohort — using the community as a creative incubator for fragrance projects moving toward market.
First published bylines
Participants have workshopped and published their first bylines — using the writing prompts, feedback loops, and editorial encouragement built into the program.
Exhibitions, zines, reading series
Members have used the materials and community to ideate
art exhibitions,
zines, and
reading series around the world — taking what they learned about scent into entirely new creative forms.
Now enrolling
The Fall 2026 Nose Training cohort is open. Forty materials. Six months. Everything above built toward this.
Enroll →
2025
Fall 2025
House of Beauty Book Tour
LA · SF · NYC · In-person
Summer 2025
Summer Salon Series
8-week salon · Online + in-person
Collective perfume pool
Dual-session format
Jan–Jun 2025
Nose Training — First Cohort
6-month cohort · Online
40-material curriculum
Custom material pages
2024
Dec 2024
Holiday Sniff Swap
Brooklyn, NYC · In-person
First perfume swap
Oct 24
Halloween Sniff N Treat
Online · Themed event
Personal archive samplers
Oct 2024
Against Orientalism
Online · Recurring series
Luckyscent partnership
Beauty Capital artifact
Summer 2024
Perfumed Pages — First Cohort
Online + mail · Where it all started
Physical mail cohort
W.W. Norton · October 2025
The House of Beauty
Lessons from the Image Industry
Arabelle Sicardi
The book that investigates the power structures — colonial, capitalist, patriarchal — behind the beauty industry. Amazon Editor's Best Nonfiction 2025. Them Best LGBTQ+ Books 2025. Coming in paperback.
Pre-order the paperback →
Paperback launches October 20, 2026