Founder Kathleen Currie has lived at the intersection of scent, body, breath, and the natural world for 15+ years.
A perfumer, herbalist, bodyworker, and massage therapist, Kathleen approaches fragrance not simply as something to wear, but as something to inhabit.
The early start of Smoke Perfume
Her relationship with scent began in massage school, while studying aromatherapy and working with pure essential oils. She began blending them intuitively, drawn to the way each botanical seemed to carry its own presence - alive, protective, sensual, and mysterious. Over time, her path expanded into breathwork, herbalism, bodywork, and natural perfumery. Again and again, she returned to the same place: breath as a vessel, scent as a portal, and the body as a living landscape.
Smoke emerged from this exploration.
Each fragrance became a small ritual - a moment to return to the body, to breathe, to remember our connection to the earth. Kathleen’s blends are shaped by years of training and certification, an intuitive relationship with plants, and a mentorship with renowned natural perfumer Mandy Aftel.
Botanical Fragrance Scentscape
Where scent, nature, ritual, breath, pleasure, the cosmos, and the human body exist in reverence. A world rooted in the earth and reaching beyond it, where fragrance becomes a way of inhabiting the body, connecting with the natural world, and honoring the mystery of being alive. Smoke creates artisanal fragrances from ethically sourced natural ingredients, thoughtfully made and housed in sustainable packaging. What began in Kathleen’s French Quarter kitchen continues to evolve: a practice of natural perfume, ritual, connection, and remembrance.
