KISMET OLFACTIVE - TOMPKINS (NEW YORK CITY)

New York City is arguably the icon of metropolitan dynamism. Always one step ahead. Always effortlessly cool. There are no molds to settle into because—with the city’s rapid flux—there simply isn’t time. Tompkins is a fragrance celebrating NYC’s East Village and its historic Tompkins Square Park—both renowned as beacons upholding the city’s unconventional spirit. Embodying the park’s loaded reputation—a haven for hobos, punks, junkies, poets, painters, skaters—Tompkins is at once full of animosity and revolt while keeping composed and collected.

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.