Discovery Set

Every one of them is a place.

Seven releases, and the names are all places. Two downtown New York blocks, the Atlas foothills, a Flamenco city, and three turns through the Dominican Republic, where the amyris and the wild orange grow. Dawn Marie West composes all of it herself, self-taught, out of a Long Island City atelier.

The range runs from powdery vanilla through a mineral concrete accord to a smoked resin that finishes as a gourmand. It is a wide line rather than one idea repeated, and the distance between its two ends is the point.

La Boticá is a fragrance house rooted in Afro-Dominican heritage, working out of a Long Island City atelier where a small team handcrafts every release. Dawn Marie West founded it and composes the work, self-taught, arriving at fine fragrance after fifteen years in the arts, with a background as an art director and fine art photographer. Indigenous Dominican materials are the foundation: amyris, wild orange and cacao butter from the island, alongside palo santo gathered in Ecuador.

Seven eau de parfums, hand-poured candles, botanical body oils and incense make up the range, produced in small batches and in limited editions, and built to be layered. The fragrances are vegan and cruelty free, blended on USDA organic sugarcane alcohol and housed in Spanish glass from a Costa Brava maker, made with recycled content. A percentage of profits goes to The Dream Project, which runs education programs across twenty-seven Dominican communities.