Frog Funeral

Hot and humid, a tingle of pink and Timut pepper over blackcurrant, citrus, and a strange carrot‑seed sweetness that already feels a little unsteady.

Soon, creamy Mysore sandalwood rises like warm breath from your collar, wrapped in lush tuberose, blue lotus, and damp roses that blur floral beauty with something animal and slightly unhinged.

As time pass, the mood turns darker and more devotional: oakmoss, oud and frankincense smoke, myrrh, and bushman’s candle coil around vintage Kashmiri deer musk and a touch of beaver, like walking away from a late‑night roadside ceremony, sweat on your back and a love story you’re not sure survived.

It feels made for people who like their Mysore creamy but corrupted, who reach for floral‑animalic blends when they want something beautiful that admits it’s a little doomed.

JINX is an artisan house working out of a refurbished restaurant in Canandaigua, in the Finger Lakes region of central New York State. Arthur Clayton Emrick runs it, mostly self-taught, with a love of chemistry forged through beer and wine making and the culinary arts. The inspiration is Michigan, an extremely rural part of it, and the wild flowers and deep woods of a childhood there. The work is oud-centric and animalic, built on high-quality natural materials used in quantity.

Many of the JINX fragrances are entirely natural and many are not. Synthetic materials, where they are used, are named rather than left out. US houses are not bound by IFRA, and JINX complies with it anyway wherever synthetics appear. Natural animal musks appear in several of the releases. Materials are named specifically. A sandalwood by its year, an oud by where it came from.