SMELL GOOD + DO GOOD: Perfume Sale to Raise Money for the Victims of the Oklahoma Tornado

In his address to the victims of the recent tornado in Oklahoma, President Obama stated: "There are empty spaces where there used to be living rooms, and bedrooms, and classrooms, and, in time, we’re going to need to refill those spaces with love and laughter and community."

I live only a couple of hours away from the site of the Moore, OK tornado. I was born and raised in Oklahoma, and I know the risks and rewards of living here. The risks were made all too apparent this week. 

Since the devastation, I’ve been racking my brain in an effort to figure out a way I (and you) can contribute to the relief efforts for the tornado victims, and I’ve decided that I will do what I do best: use fragrance as a way to make other people’s lives better.

WHAT'S COMING OUT OF THE OLFACTORY?

The smell was so putrid, so eye-burningly awful that sometimes I thought I might actually suffocate.

I used to live next to a chemical refinery (I was a poor grad student, and it was a good deal). Once a month, billows of horrible, acrid smoke would waft from the factory towers. I have no idea what was coming out of there. All I know is that it STANK.

COME SMELL WITH ME

Playing with my perfume potions.

Have you ever struggled to unify all of the kooky and idiosyncratic parts of yourself in order to create something …well …real? 

As in, a real job. A real business. A real way to help the world.

Me too. And I struggled with it for a long, long time. Then I had this neat idea.