~a niche perfume blog for growing your senses~

In 1967, a young British DJ named John Peel decided the world needed a change. Too many brilliant, boundary-pushing bands were being ignored because they didn’t fit the mainstream mold. So, he opened the gates with his radio show The Perfumed Garden—a free-spirited, eclectic program that championed the weird, the wonderful, and the revolutionary.

Peel’s show helped launch iconic bands like Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Smiths, The Cure, and Pulp—music that defined generations and pushed cultural boundaries. If you aren’t familiar with his legacy, just try searching “bands John Peel helped make famous,” and you’ll wonder how you hadn’t heard his name before.

In that same spirit, this blog celebrates perfume as art—whether it’s an indie gem, an overlooked treasure, or a wildly eccentric experiment. Like Peel’s playlists, it’s about discovering the unexpected and sharing scents that feel deeply personal.

You will find a few designer fragrances in these pages, but it’ll only be when they’ve done something to stand out. After all, the “pop” in “pop music” comes from “popular,” and although not always, sometimes popular things are deservedly popular.

Mostly, though, this blog aims to celebrate brands and scents that remind us of something the mainstream fragrance world often forgets: scent isn't merely for being attractive. For many people, perfume isn’t just about pheromones. It can be something entirely personal—a way to indulge your creativity, inhabit different mental spaces, or shape the atmosphere around you. Just like great music isn’t only for socializing, fragrance can be a personal exploration. A form of self-expression, meditation, therapy and art.

Rather than a fragrance review page, this site is for helping you develop new ways to experience scent. It’s my personal, subjective inner world, yes, but I hope to inspire you to approach your own sensory environment in a way that includes more of your senses — to experience a bit of synesthesia, perhaps.

For me, music plays a huge part in everything, so I hope you’ll also enjoy exploring new artists and genres through the music I’ve matched to my scent memories.

Please join me in my thoughts, memories and reveries about scent. I hope our shared experience will help you start to use all of your senses to feel your world more deeply.