KISMET OLFACTIVE - L.A. HIGH (LOS ANGELES)

Wheels clacking over brick. Hitting walls. Going nowhere fast. Los Angeles soaking up a citrus colored sun. Living in the day, you drink yourself into slo-mo, smoke out a Granny Smith as you make your way between the bars. Come night, the street’s wet—you can tell by the sound of the cars.

30ml

Kismet Olfactive is a New York City-based independent fragrance studio founded by perfumer Shabnam Tavakol. Born and raised in California, Shabnam 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. Kismet bridges Persian heritage and Western upbringing through a range of influences that overlap and transcend both worlds: 1960s revolutionaries in music, film, and fashion, experimental storytelling, psychedelia, nostalgia, poetry, human connection, theories of time, morning hours, sensuality, synesthesia, moodiness, eastern philosophies, free spirits, and a general revolt against the establishment at large.