Discovery Duo

Two small vials, one Fool's Journey in miniature.

This is the doorway into a small-batch house bottled in the French Quarter, where myth and lore get rewritten with a wink and a wandering spirit. Ryan Capogreco — illustrator, tarot deck designer, accidental nomad turned perfumer — built this world on the idea that the Fool is the one who actually says the thing, sideways. Temper holds opposites in one hand: orris root and cucumber gin, vetiver shadow and a rainbow that keeps shifting as it warms on skin. Its companion is a creamy, tobacco-warm narcissus laced with osmanthus and amyris, an echo of ambrette, a microdose of myth-making.

Together they trace the house's whole sensibility — irreverent, a little theatrical, still sincere underneath. Carnival air, a sassy hat, glitter on the sidewalk. The kind of beginning that doesn't know where it's going and likes it that way.

Foolish begins in New Orleans, where Ryan shaped a fragrance house around myth, irreverence, and the thrill of starting something on instinct.

Rooted in small-batch creation and guided by a background that spans illustration, design, marketing, and self-taught perfumery, the brand carries the feeling of a personal journey turned into scent. It feels less like a label and more like an invitation into a world where story, artistry, and a touch of mischief meet in the bottle.