Perfume Substacks

I keep seeing Notes with people asking for Perfume Substacks lately. So I thought I’d create this list of all the fragrance focused or fragrance adjacent Substacks I am aware of. Please comment with ones you know that I haven’t included here and I’ll update! Some of these also cover beauty and fashion.

Alice du Parcq's Perfume Playground

Welcome to my perfume hub full of practical advice, think pieces and shopping guides compiled by me, Alice du Parcq, an award-winning fragrance writer and presenter. Subscribers also get early ticket access to my fragrance events.

Black Girl Perfume Club

A community for Black girls who like to smell good. Fragrance reviews, deals, recommendations, and insider knowledge.

By Taylyn Washington-Harmon

eat your lipstick

audrey's perfume blog!

By audrey robinovitz

The Dry Down Diaries 💅

Perfume reviews and recommendations from a fraghead obsessed with everything olfactory. Guaranteed to make you smell better.

By Christina Loff

FUMES

perfume, history, culture, and sometimes a lethal combination of all three. never paywalled.

By Miccaeli

Gonzo Fumes

David Seth Moltz of @dsanddurga on HOW I FUME. Aromatic materials, perfumes I've made, perfumes I want to make, seeing the world through the nose. Original artwork too. Possible pomes.

By David Seth Moltz

Good Atmosphere

A lifestyle newsletter from Kristen Pumphrey, the founder of P.F. Candle Co., exploring all things fragrance, DIY, home, and small business.

By Kristen Pumphrey

A Hundred Billion Bottles

A blog about perfume, perfume history, and other stuff like that.

By Brian Buchanan

Luca Turin on perfume etc.

Perfume reviews and other things

By Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Noted. [by Suzy Nightingale]

Suzy Nightingale's Fragrant World: scents, suggestions, news and reviews from an award-winning fragrance journalist. Expert advice on how to find bargains and what I'd pay the £££ for.

O Caftan My Caftan

A weekly queer newsletter with recurring columns, etiquette advice, perfume talk, and strong opinions!!!! about trivial shit – from Krista Burton, author of Moby Dyke

By Krista

olfactory seconds

on fragrance, olfaction, making scents, nonsense

By nicole

Perfume Enjoyer

No Fragrets

By Maddie Phinney

Perfumeverse NYC

a local newsletter dedicated to all things olfactory in NYC📍and its the fragrance community, with occasional rants, thoughts, and breakdowns from the Founder, Nadia.

By Nadia Kadri

Scented’s Substack

This is a substack for perfume lovers.

By Scented Academic

Smell World

Musings on scent in aesthetics, art, culture, and technology—past and present.

By Quinn MacRorie

You've Got Lipstick on Your Chin

A beauty industry newsletter that publishes news, beauty criticism, and longform essays. Beauty is terror, but it can be care, too. I walk the line between these landscapes.

By Arabelle Sicardi