Looking back, I can see it began with the samples, the small glass vials of perfume that I had begun to collect—do I really need to use the word hoard to be clear here?—in a wooden cigar box hidden under the bed. [...] I liked to paw through them in their little boxes, separating them into shifting categories of my own devising.

— Our own Alyssa Harad, in The Perfume Diet in the June issue of O Magazine.