February 2024 • Pearfat Parfum

Fumerie is proud to host Pearfat Parfum as our second Maker’s Residency artist and brand! Capturing sense memories of growing up in the midwest, honoring great fragrances of the past, offering a sense of humor about our bodies - Pearfat Parfum looks to combine classical perfumery molecules with modern olfactory innovations to create nods to pop culture, a space for gender fluidity, & scents that speak to instigators.

Alie Kiral has appreciated perfume since she was gifted a Tom Fields Tinkerbell set & started stealing spritzes of her mom’s White Diamonds in the early ‘90s. She loves playing pinball, adopting chihuahuas & wayward cats, and watching the campiest movies possible with her husband Keegan.

Pearfat Parfum is founded out of Alie’s passion for exploring the body’s incredible senses, the anthropology of perfume, and making perfume a fun, accessible, welcoming space for all. She is a self-taught perfumer interested in the intersection of art, craft, history, and culture found in the world of fine fragrance. She has been learning on her own & with the help of mentors through the incredible Institute for Art & Olfaction.

It’s dewy, slushy, and sweet. It’s the smell on your hands after you’ve worked in a garden pulling up weeds. It’s stopping at every flower. It’s fireflies over sodden grass at twilight. It’s a little love hex. It’s an open window drive down a dirt road filling your hair with dust. It’s wearing your most excellent shoes to the grocery store. It’s a shared giggle over a mispronounced French word.

All perfumes are composed, bottled & packed lovingly by hand.

Featured Fragrances

AMICUS CUMULUS • On certain spring mornings, step outside, and you may notice the clouds showing o for you. You are present, happy, and alive. I have always believed that a beautiful sky in the morning is a good omen for the day. Clouds look soft, fluy, and amorphous, yet they also contain a mighty side. This is a fragrance about being in tune with the world around you - turning soft, remembering your power.

BREAD & ROSES • Initially, a limited edition fragrance for Holiday 2022, Bread + Roses became Pearfat’s best-selling fragrance! Because of this, it will now be a permanent edition available year-round. Bread & Roses smells like cracking into a warm, fresh, baguette, soft red rose petals, & familiar warmth.

I BROKE MY OWN HEART • Harkening to the early 2000’s era of communication - instant messenger, chat rooms, and late nights gossiping at slumber parties - this scent will unlock a specific memory for many, and evoke a time that many emulate now. The perfume is an homage to the gourmand, warm, edible scent trend of this time while taking it to a more daring and anamalic place for the grown-ups we’ve been forced to become. This fragrance is a moody love spell to comfort any broken heart.

STOMPED ON BED OF LETTUCE • Inspired by the 1966 film, Daisies - the world is spoiled, so perhaps we should be, too. Capturing the vivid palette of the film’s colors, the chaotic spirit of Marie #1 and Marie #2 eating and pranking their way through life, and the anarchic femininity that Daisies represents, Stomped on Bed of Lettuce is a green fragrance for schemers.

Explore Pearfat Parfum’s full website here

Explore Alie Kiral’s parfumeur page here

Submissions for our 2025 Calendar will close on Dec. 8 2024. All applications and samples must be received by this date for this calendar, but submissions can be made any time for future consideration.

Here at Fumerie Parfumerie, we are first and foremost perfume lovers. The goal of this venture has always been twofold: to bring the finest niche and independent fragrances to the Portland area and to engage the fragrance community and create a space for people to come together. In an effort to serve the greater community of enthusiasts and up-and-coming makers, we are excited to announce that starting January 2024 we will be featuring a month-long spotlight on an independent perfumer who will be exhibited in our shop for the duration of said month.

We believe the growing community of self-taught and newer perfumers deserve access to spaces wherein their art can be shown and appreciated without fully committing to the rather rigorous systems of wholesale. We also believe our community of fragrance lovers want and deserve a chance to enjoy these very hard-to-find pieces of art. Often, local and micro-perfume brands are limited to working with stockists in their immediate area or are forced to compete with the algorithmic competition of social media. We are proud to offer our curative services to find these makers and to make available a public form for brands to apply to participate in this exciting new program.

If you are a perfumer or brand owner interested in obtaining a month-long Maker’s Residency here in our shop simply fill out the form below and we will follow up shortly with an introduction, any questions we may have, and next steps. If you have questions you would like answered before applying, please feel free to email info@fumerie.com.

Please complete the form below to apply to be featured in our Maker’s Residency Program