Good to be back, brothers · Brotherhood Of Scent

Good to be back, brothers

Hello! It's been a while. Apologies for inactivity, I have a lot on my plate. Some mild familial troubles, though nothing new, and trying to figure them out, along with some big stuff. My life is hitting a major transition period, as I've been called to serve a mission for my church (LDS), and I'm preparing to begin training and go on my mission in just a few weeks! I got called to California, speaking the Hmong language, so much of my time has been spent on studying, scripture reading, and studying this beautiful language.

In my free time though, I spend a lot of time working on perfumes. I've started really falling in love with making them, though I still have a lot more to work on before making anything that doesn't smell too muddy, I've hit a potential gold mine, and I won't have to worry about them smelling generic. Below I've attached a little rough sketch I've been working on for my logo. The letters need better alignment, and the logo is just a pre filler sketch my friend designed for me, though I plan to make it more golden ratio-esque and slightly more minimalist, as the mollusk design I engraved on each bottle and cap.

I've designed the bottles, packaging, story cards and storytelling, and currently have around twenty concepts in the works, with four being currently developed by *yours truly 💅*, and the more I do this, the more I'm realizing this is a career I want. I've also spent a long time locking in on different tastes and building little profiles for a lot of the brothers here, and so when I start releasing my stuff in a few years, you'll find things that are a little curated to your guys' tastes ;)

Still an enormous thank you to Mr Centeno and this community for getting me on this journey! After a lot of time, work, effort, and money, I'm hoping to break through eventually, however long it takes. Currently we don't have any socials, but I am working on a website in its bare bones, and when I return in the two years, I'll start having these finished up, and prepared to continue the designs. I will be so happy to share this progress with you as I continue on.

I go out when I can as well, and been doing a lot of swing dancing lately, and have had some interesting occurrences happen between. I hopped on a major phone detox, and am learning to navigate and drive without maps, a thirty six year old man despises me now and is now trying to beef with me (lol), I confessed feelings to a long time friend of mine, but less as a way to date her, knowing the feeling isn't mutual, and more as, I need to get it off my chest and thought she deserved to know. It went quite well. I found a wonderful new friend group and put together a fragrance wardrobe for my friend, and am currently working to help them design and properly decorate their living space, and met someone new whom I'm starting to get a thing for! I started doing music again, and so that's also been taking up my time, and I think I've found an interesting niche to carve in.

This being said as well, I hope everything is going well with you guys. Tell me everything new in your lives, I want to hear it, along with... I'd love to stay in contact with you as I'm on my mission! If you'd like to be on my email list, send me your email addresses and I'll add you :) love all you brothers

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Good to be back, brothers