Short Story Fragrance Sampler

Imaginary Authors is a Portland perfume house built on books that were never written. Every scent in the library is credited to an invented author and arrives with a synopsis for a novel you cannot buy, so Memoirs of a Trespasser is filed under one Philip Sava and reads like a notice for exploration writing that does not exist. The perfume is the book.

The Short Story Collection is eight of them in miniature, and the packaging is the best argument for the whole idea. The box opens like a hardback. Inside the cover it asks what treasures will be unlocked, and the vials sit in a die cut well like something pressed between pages.

We shelve this in the Reading Room rather than with the candles, because that is where it belongs. Eight openings in one evening, and by the end you know which one is yours. Josh Meyer founded the house here in Portland in 2012, which makes them neighbors.

Eight 2ml glass spray vials, roughly forty half sprays each. The set costs $10 less than the same eight bought singly.