CLASS Woody, Fresh FEELINGS Fun, Lively, Compassionate, Present, Encouraging KEY INGREDIENTS Top: Pink Pepper, Ginger, Coconut MilkHeart: Geranium, Gardenia, Violet LeavesBase: Osmanthus, Musk, SandalwoodWedding in Oaxaca is the story of two lovers bound together in a Mexican city, surrounded by a parade of local music, dance, and friends in wild celebration. A playful fragrance, Wedding in Oaxaca fuses smooth lactonic notes of coconut milk and tuberose with fresh floral violet leaves and woody undertones of vetiver, musk, and sandalwood. May this scent always remind you of a memorable moment in time. “. . . Here they come with a big brass band up front With tubas and trumpets and drumsAt the head or the forming columns of men and womenPouring in from the side streetsInto the Avenida de la Independencia in the center of Oaxaca...”Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "High Noon, Oaxaca” --- Kismet Olfactive is a New York City-based independent fragrance studio founded by bohemian-perfumer Shabnam Tavakol. Born and raised in California, Shabnam—Farsi for “morning dew” — is the daughter of Iranian-immigrant parents who escaped the violent 1979 Revolution in Iran, relocating to the U.S. by way of hard-won efforts and a string of good fortune. Recognizing this fortuitous past, Kismet — from the Persian qismat, meaning “fate,” or, “what is meant to be” — translates the serendipitous moments that make up our lives into wearable scents.Shabnam studied fragrance creation at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in South France. After graduating, she worked professionally in Paris and New York City, yet soon grew disappointed by the perfume industry’s rigid conformity, privileging corporate hierarchy, political correctness, and a hard line between ‘natural perfumery’ and ‘fine fragrance’ — large-fragrance-house perfumers seemed disconnected from clientele, pressured to formulate from marketing briefs, consumer-projections, pie charts, analytics. Seeking an alternative, Shabnam founded Kismet to establish a more intimate, inclusive, and ‘naturals’-integrative approach to fine fragrance creation.
