Pragma

The plum was built to be photorealistic.

Peach and pear crowd in around it. Grape sits behind, everything right at the edge of ripe. Then two patchoulis, one dark and one light, pull the sweetness back toward earth. Iris and carnation dry the flowers out. Geranium and lily of the valley keep them cool.

Mysore sandalwood from 1965 and Bang Mot oud carry it into cooler nights, with vanilla and vintage civet turning it animal as it goes. Some of the materials are unusual, and they are used in quantity. The change over time is easy to follow.

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.