Customer Appreciation Month • 2025
Beginning October 1st: ALL full-size bottle purchases will enter you into a raffle for a chance to win a FREE bottle of our first-ever collaboration fragrance: Ponte Etereo!
As much as we love fragrant art, we love our community even more. Fumerie has proudly served the most interested, engaged, and discerning members of the niche and independent fragrance community for nearly ten years, and this year, we launched our first-ever collaborative fragrance, an effort shared between renowned perfumer Meo Fusciuni and our founder & owner, Tracy Tsefalas, acting as creative director. This fragrance is loosely based on thematic elements inspired by Portland in various ways, and the Fumerie staff created a playlist of Portland artists for Meo to listen to during his creation process. He also composed the poem Weird Wind to accompany the fragrance (you can find the poem below) and expand upon the themes shared between the collaborators during the creation process. We truly could not have expected the support and interest shown for Fumerie over the years, let alone the resounding positive feedback we have heard around our first-ever fragrance release. From written reviews to phone calls from across the country, we truly appreciate each and every person who has taken the time to let us know how much they have enjoyed Ponte Etereo. We are truly humbled by our customers and the greater fragrance community daily.
Here are just a few pieces of the humbling feedback we have received about Ponte Etereo thus far:
“Tracy Tsefalas runs a wonderful shop in Portland, OR called Fumerie Parfumerie. I visited several times, even gave brief talks to her assembled customers and enjoyed every minute of her company. She has unerring taste and vast knowledge, and people who breeze into Fumerie get a perfume education as well as a bottle or three. Fusciuni is one of the leading lights of renascent Italian niche perfumery and has some great fragrances to his name. They kindly sent me a sample of their joint creation Ponte Etereo (ethereal bridge). It is an extraordinarily dense, compact accord of camphoraceous, smoky, woody and earthy notes, a sort of Tiger Balm for the soul. The feeling it gives is a somber but beguiling darkness that reminds me of Reger’s Toteninsel, a musical essay on Böcklin’s atmospheric painting. Love it.'“ - Luca Turin, via his substack
"“It takes a certain level of maturity to agree to meet someone in the middle, and there’s no better symbol for leaping in faith than a bridge spanning two sides in a tenuous tryst. What I sense in Ponte Etereo is Tracy’s longstanding affection for the complex, deep wood notes that held up classics of the 1970s entwining with Meo’s impeccable nose for modern expansion of ageless ideas. The venerable wet-woody of oakmoss and musk peeks out under the dry-woody of contemporary vetiver and patchouli, and the result is smoothly blended like the constantly churning waters around bridge pylons… Ponte Etereo doesn’t make me want to slap a Keep Portland Weird sticker on my Subaru; it makes me proud of the elegant evergreen tree featured on our license plates. There’s no better fragrance for the upcoming autumn season if you want to smell the delightful transition of summer’s tree barks getting soaked dark with the silent patience of slow rains.” - Sam Berg for ÇaFleureBon, Guest Contributor and ÇaFleureBon reader
In addition to showing appreciation to our established community and customers at-large, we also continue to implement our Customer and Community Appreciation Month raffles because we know that holiday shopping can be challenging. Add a cold snap to the season, and Portland all but shuts down, making your best shopping intentions close to impossible to achieve. We hope you’ll take advantage of our Customer Appreciation Month promotions to shop early and then relax early. We are available to help at any step of your shopping experience, so do not hesitate to reach out for any assistance!
The Details: Free entry into our Giveaway Raffle with purchase of any full-size Bottle • That’s correct, every single full-size bottle purchased in October (1st- 31st) will result in your being entered into our raffle to win a bottle of our first official fragrance, Ponte Etereo, for free! In case you’re wondering: you will receive a spot (or “ticket”) in the raffle for every full-size bottle you purchase, so if you’ve been eyeing a few things or are shopping for gifts for others, you will receive extra chances to win when you make multiple full-size bottle purchases with Fumerie through October 31st!
From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank each and every one of you, from the entire Fumerie Crew, for helping to solidify Fumerie as the place perfume lovers call home.
Read Tracy’s blog post about the creation of Ponte Etereo here
Read Tracy’s interview with Meo Fusciuni here
Explore Ponte Etereo here
