Telosmia is the small batch perfume house of scholar-perfumer John Falter. These scents came from the intensity and glamor of South Carolina, believing this state to be a capital of elegance alongside Paris and New York. Each scent works with the climate and history of this land. Airy and musky profiles match the heat; Southern and Caribbean notes root them in heritage. Filter these principles through the art and obsession of modern molecular perfumery, and you have Telosmia.

Available at A. Smith Clothiers.

The Perfumer

John Falter is a scholar-perfumer with a specialization in sensory rhetoric. When he's not perfuming, he teaches writing at Clemson and is finishing a dissertation on the meaning of perfume in colonial Charleston. Ask him about it if you see him walking around town.