Personal Letter
Personal Letter
On why it began, how the craft was learned, how it was built, who runs it, and how it moves. Written by hand, meant to be read slowly.
Why I Started
The honest answer is not one reason but five: a limitless love of exploring and learning, the wish to feel certain memories again, a love of community and the quality of a day, a vehicle into new worlds, and the simple freedom to live by my own clock.
Read the full letterHow I Learned to Make Perfume
No chemistry degree, no perfumery school, no mentor. The self-taught road from crushing chocolate into a bottle to reading a fragrance backwards with GC-MS, and the one thing I never had to learn.
Read the full letterHow HoM Haute Was Built
An outsider’s climb, from no support system to a cult of open-minded fragheads, and the Jakarta Fragrance Club year that changed the work. The long way up, told without varnish.
Read the full letterA Team of One
Everyone assumes there is a team. There is one person doing all of it, from the fragrance to the photos to the packing and shipping, leaning on systems and the newest tools. The honest upside, the real flaws, and a someday small team.
Read the full letterThe Strange Pace
I have a great many ideas, and I create almost every day. Beyond that daily flow sits a deep archive of nearly a thousand finished ideas and frameworks, each ready to be finalized when the moment is right. Small batches by choice, expensive materials, no manufactured scarcity, and an honest word on buying mindfully.
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