John's story
The story
A Fragrantica writer since 2012, interviewing perfumers including Alessandro Gualtieri and Laurice Rahme, he launched his own line, January Scent Project, in 2015, and was named Rising Star by CaFleureBon in 2017.
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Biebel
John Biebel, an artist, writer, and musician with a BFA in painting and photography from Cooper Union, has lived in New York, London, and Boston before settling near Providence, Rhode Island, where he maintains a painting and perfume studio in a converted 19th-century textile mill.
- Trained
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- House
- January Scent Project
- Earliest in our catalog
- Burvuvu, 2018
- In our catalog
- 1 fragrances
Known for
Burvuvu
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