How does one accurately pay homage to American explorers, entrepreneurs, artists, and philosophers? The answer is simple, you convert a 19th Century Brooklyn rigging garage into the home of one of America’s most coveted fragrance and design houses, Joya Studio.

Founded by Frederick Bouchardy, Joya Studio, produces evocative in-house fragrances — candles, perfumes, soaps, oils — and is the nose behind fragrances made for clients like A24, which is telling, because the experience of smelling a Joya Studio fragrance can tell a story all on its own. 

Âmes Sœurs or “soul mates” suggests both freshness and warmth, radiating sensuality. The bittersweet brightness of grapefruit joins with a smoky, almost animalic orange blossom to oscillate between the soothing known and what Nabokov called the unknown “twilight, and garden” of a beloved: The part that always stays out of reach. 

• Top Notes: spicy tamarind with accents of shimmering grapefruit and cypress…
• Heart: rose, ginger and blooming orange blossom
• Drydown: lingering cedarwood paired with incense, amber, olibanum, vetiver and sweet musk…
• Net Weight: 260 g / 9.2 oz.
• Approximate Burn Time: 70 hours
• Handmade porcelain container with a 22k gold painted rim 
• Ingredients: soy wax blend, fine fragrance, essential oil, cotton wick.

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