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Pearfat
Smells like freshly baked baguettes and rose petals
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the bit you might not know
Named for the Judy Collins song of the same name, itself drawn from the 1912 textile strikes and the phrase demanding both survival and dignity.
Pearfat
Smells like damp earth and wilted florals
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the bit you might not know
A messy-bedroom-as-ecosystem concept. Clothes crammed into corners, pear cores in the wastebasket, moss growing through a crack in the wall.
Pearfat
Smells like toasted coconut and salty skin
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the bit you might not know
Set on a specific late-90s/early-2000s night. Sitting in a dark-purple-lit bedroom, waiting for an AOL Instant Message reply that never comes.
Pearfat
Smells like worn suede and foggy violet
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the bit you might not know
Named for the 1964 Shangri-Las song, built around a fictional man remembering a lost first love after hearing a motorcycle-crash report on the radio. A genuine collaboration with perfumer Michael Nordstrand of Mythologist.
Pearfat
Smells like tomato leaf and plastic
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the bit you might not know
A personal creation from perfumer Alie Kiral. A grandmother's overstuffed table, a niece's round rosy cheeks compared to plump tomatoes on the vine.
Pearfat
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the bit you might not know
Named for the old Midwest farming saying "knee high by the Fourth of July," used to judge whether a corn crop is on track. Set at a roadside corn stand in Indiana, with a farmer slipping an extra ear to a kid outside their mother's watchful eye.
Pearfat
Smells like a teenage date night
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the bit you might not know
Written as a love letter to the arcade, almost like a sacred ritual around a pinball machine, spilled off-brand cola on waxy floorboards.
Pearfat
Smells bright, spicy, and sweet
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the bit you might not know
Named for the old superstition of saying "rabbit rabbit" on the first of the month for good luck, built around spring's arrival, fuzzy new growth, and the smell of carrot cake. Note: contains barley absolute, so it may not suit gluten sensitivities.
Pearfat
Smells like old church pews and incense
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the bit you might not know
A specific Catholic-school childhood memory. Sleeping in wooden pews, leaving offerings for the church cat, nuns singing hymns that were "equal parts gentle and defiant."
Pearfat
Smells like a very fancy salad
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the bit you might not know
Named for a line from Věra Chytilová's 1966 Czech New Wave film Daisies. The dedication reads "to those who get upset only over a stomped upon bed of lettuce."
Pearfat
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the bit you might not know
A Summer 2024 limited release built around a specific drive north into Michigan. Includes white trillium (a wildflower native to the Great Lakes region, long significant to Indigenous communities there) and Petoskey stone. Petoskey stone is fossilized coral found along Michigan's shoreline and is designated the state stone!
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