Why Osmic?

Greek osmḗ "smell, odor"
Osmia is the study of our sensory perception of smell

About me:

My name is Annie and I am an independent perfumer located in Brooklyn, NY. I was trained in the methodology of fragrance formulation by Saskia Wilson Brown, founder of the Institute of Art and Olfaction in LA and self taught thereafter. Alongside the joyful creativity I’ve found in exploring sensory relationships between materials, my practice is informed by a biological context of the neuropsychological primality of scent.

My ethos:

Adorning fragrance is twofold. It is a visceral way of communicating to others your sensorial preferences, as well as serving as a personal ritual of anointment, bestowing value in the here and now alongside a recognition of its impermanence. 

I work mostly with raw botanical materials. Oils and absolutes distilled from flowers, bark, leaves, roots, seeds, fruit peels and other natural living sources offer a complex scent profile, vary batch to batch depending on the cultivation environment and have rich cultural and natural histories of use and trade that inform the narrative of our contemporary use of them.

I am also fascinated by synthetically designed aromatic molecules. Some of these smells don’t exist in nature but we still have the ability to perceive them. Some are facsimiles of familiar scents but are designed to vaporize more slowly to increase longevity of wear (sillage). Synthetic molecules also allow the fragrance industry to remain environmentally sustainable and animal-cruelty free.

A Note on Pricing:

While I would love to make my work more financially accessible; at this point Osmic Labs is a small scale independent fragrance practice and the cost of sourcing high quality materials, the time and effort of individually mixing each bottle by hand and the artistry of my formulations is reflected in the price.

I do recommend initially purchasing a discovery set to evaluate which fragrance accords you emotionally respond to and assess your satisfaction with how the scent develops and wears on your unique skin microbiome..so that you feel good about your investment!