Muru incense pyres from Blackbird: "Muru is a sophisticated and rich, green, woody-earthy smell. Burning Muru imparts a foreign, exotic feel to any atmosphere. The name Muru means grass in Estonian." With vetiver, yuzu, cypress and soil; 20+ cones for $34 at Blackbird. (These are the ones I've had my eye on, but reader favorites mentioned in the comments recently include Ploom, Gorgo, Lone, Targa and Tilde.)
From Blackbird, the Weird Wife rollerball gift set: "She may not actually be a she, or a wife. She's her own person. She dresses for herself. Her thoughts are her own. She dances or sings at the wrong time. She knows that cheese and crackers is a perfectly acceptable dinner. [...] Feel free to gift to anyone who might enjoy this combination. Packaging is not labeled with set name." With 10 ml each of Y06-S and Anemone in "a small black and white Blackbird branded box ready for gifting", $76.
In the future there will be no bananas…This is not a novelty scent…This is not a gourmand perfume. So says Seattle-based Blackbird of its latest fragrance launch, Y06-S.
The moment I read Y06-S’s list of ingredients (banana, “electronics,” agarwood, jasmine and milk) my intuition pointed to instant “I will like this” and I was right. Y06-S is one of my favorite perfumes of the year and will be a part of my Summer 2018 perfume rotation…
I’ve never met my fellow Now Smell This writer Kevin “in real life,” but I feel as though we’ve been friends for years — not only because we’re familiar with each others’ fragrance tastes and we’ve read each others’ writing for so long, but because we share other, non-perfume interests and opinions as well. One of them is a background in art history. Another is a strong dislike of hot summer weather. Kevin’s recent post on two fragrances for heatwaves suggested one scent-strategy for coping with soaring temperatures: “merging” with the oppressive weather by wearing intense, vivid scents. As I was testing Blackbird’s Broken Glass this week, I thought of another: wearing a fragrance that foreshadows autumn…
The scent wafting from inside, a mix of ceremonial resins, smoked spices, burnt citrus, dry ice, quarry stone, seaports, old flower petals, overripe fruit, spent fuel, yesterday’s coffee and minty tea, gives this whole block in Seattle’s North End an aura that rocks the visitor forward and backward.
— That's the scent wafting from inside Seattle's Blackbird, one of several brands mentioned in Seattle’s indie perfumers bottle nature’s mysterious, sexy scents at The Seattle Times.