News from the Poesie Studio: Looking Forward

Many of you may be wondering about our plans for Black Friday this year. In the past, we have offered gifts with purchase. This year, we are busy with some other exciting projects and won’t be able to support providing the same deals as in the past. We understand that this may be disappointing, but we hope you'll continue to support us as we embark on new adventures!

One undertaking that will take a lot of our time through the end of the year is our big move!

For a while now, it’s been clear that the team has outgrown our current studio, and we’re excited to be taking over a bigger space in the same building. This will allow us to grow the team and take on the new projects we’ve been dreaming about for a while.

What does this mean for you, dear reader? In the long-term, we hope this will allow us to continue to deliver the quality service you've come to expect from us while also giving us the physical and creative space to add to our repertoire.

Short-term, this means that in order to accomplish the move and tackle some other essential projects, we will be pausing order fulfillment from December 9th through January 8th.

Any orders processed after midnight EST on Friday, December 8th will be fulfilled and shipped once we return from our move and winter break on January 8th. The website will still be open for shopping and placing orders, so please know those orders will stay safely in queue until we return.

Thank you all for your unbelievable support of this small business! I am incredibly grateful to be able to create new perfumes and bring back past favorites, knowing that they are part of your lives, have scented your special days, given you comfort and confidence, and become part of your story. I am so excited to see what we will create together in 2024.

❤️Joelle

A Perfume Pas de Deux

When I discovered that Nui Cobalt Designs and Poesie were both releasing holiday collections inspired by The Nutcracker, I saw this coincidence for the opportunity it is -- a chance to enjoy the creativity integral to the indie perfume world, and a chance to experience Forest’s interpretation of the source material we both love. 

After a chat where we nerded out about plum aroma chemicals, Fox Mulder’s similarities to Poe, and why not to click on the wikilink for rat king (consider yourself warned), we came up with the fun idea of offering discovery sets of each other’s collections. This is our way of giving everyone the chance to experience the classic story from two vastly different interpretations. Forest’s collection explores the darker side of things from the original story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and my interpretation is a fluffy take on childhood nostalgia and my ballerina dreams. 

During our respective collection releases on November 18th, you’ll find discovery sets of both collections on each other’s sites, and we’ll each have a Nutcracker-inspired limited edition candle by the talented Christina Allen Page at Sihaya & Company. We're excited to support each other in this way, nurturing strong relationships and mutual respect in the indie perfume world, and we hope you’ll have fun exploring our respective takes on this classic tale.

Joelle
 

Don't Despair.

If you saw last week’s survey about changes to the general catalog, today’s news probably didn’t take you by surprise. But it’s entirely possible your favorite Poesie fragrance was discontinued, so we thought a few words in memoriam were in order.

We don’t think you’ll need too much emotional support because this move is designed to offer you more variety. We’re trimming the general catalog a bit, so we can bring you more selection throughout the year -- some fragrances available seasonally, some which will be available during our annual (yes, we said annual - huzzah!) Reissue event, and some that will be part of an upcoming Very Special Project. Details to come.

We read all of your amazing responses to the survey and -- first of all thank you, you’re the best -- we think you’re going to be big fans of the Very Special Project, along with all the collections we have planned for the year. It’s actually a little concerning how on point some things were. Have you been reading my diary? (Just kidding I’ve always been absolutely hopeless about keeping a diary and the few times I did keep one, going back and reading it made me want to crawl under a blanket and never come out but I digress…)

And now, to honor the departed, a few words from the Bard.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,

And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,

And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,

And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er

The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,

Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.

-- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30