Drown me in this perfume, please

What’s it like floating through space, making your way towards new worlds with the stars as your map?

Wondering that for ourselves, Kelly + Jones’ founder and perfumer, Kelly Jones, and I started gathering ingredients and experimenting. After lots of testing and tweaking, she ended up mixing us a custom scent that feels like being in deep space: Space Cadet. 

It’s slightly metallic and expansive, with notes of solar musks and sparkling bergamot, and whispers of amber resin. It’s a little unexpected, but beautiful to wear and crafted with luxurious, high end ingredients.

Left: The final product, Space Cadet; Right: Jean Shrimpton in Harper’s Bazaar, 1965

Kelly mixed a small, limited edition batch of this perfume oil, and as a holiday gift I’m sneaking a complimentary Space Cadet roll-on in with every order over $200 this month. I’m so excited for you to smell it, and hope you love it as much as I do!

Find out more about Kelly + Jones here, or find some special gifts for the holidays here.

Starscape Inspiration

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Image credits, clockwise starting top left: Hubble Space Telescope photo of part of Sagittarius, ESA/Hubble & NASA; Fashion editorial from 2017, source unknown; Comet illustration by Lyn Ward; “Winter Full Moon” engraving, Johannes Hevelius; Cast cairn in brass, Cast Cairn in brass, Joseph Magliaro; “Moon Dust (Apollo 17)” installation, Spencer Finch.

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Two years ago I saw a photo (the top left one, actually) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and became immediately obsessed. It shows stars in a rainbow of colors, sparkling against the deep black of space. That image immediately made me want to recreate it, using colorful semi-precious stones against a dark metal background. 

And then I fell down a rabbit hole of space photography, space-inspired fashion spreads, and Galileo's original drawings of constellations (I'm not sure I'm fully out of it yet). Sketches came together fast, and before I knew it I was carving (and re-carving, and re-carving again) shapes out of wax, testing out different stone colors, and setting mini constellations into all new pieces. 

If you haven’t seen the new Starscape Collection yet, check it out here — I’d love to know if you can see how the inspiration became the finished jewelry!