Scent Lab's First Perfumes Are Making the Body Mist Trend Personal
The award-winning candle brand enters the fragrance chat with six scents you're supposed to blend.


This is the year of early '00s trend resurgences. Belly button piercings and low-rise jeans are back in fashion, while lightweight body mists are getting spritzed left and right—and not just by tweens at Bath & Body Works. Videos tagged "best body spray" have been viewed more than 34 million times on TikTok this year, per CNN; grown-up brands from Sol de Janeiro to Tom Ford have developed their own airy-yet-fragrant takes.
Personalization-driven startup Scent Lab is also getting into the body mist game, after launching in 2022 with award-winning candles (and raising a fresh round of funding earlier this spring). But there's a difference: These scents want to take the guesswork out of how to layer perfume—or rather, perfume mists—in the name of creating a signature scent.
Scent Lab is releasing six light "perfume mists" that can be worn alone—or blended into a "potion" bottle.
Scent Lab's initial lineup—which the brand is calling "perfume mists"—comprises six scents, ranging from Cheeky Rose (with rose, pink pepper, lychee, and blonde wood notes) to Lemon Fizz (blending lemon, bergamot, palo santo, and sheer musk). The entire range is non-toxic, long-lasting, and, if you choose, customizable with a $10 "potion" bottle. (Each mist comes with an extra spigot for an easy pour.)
"We wanted to create fragrances that were complex on their own if the customers wear them solo, which is totally fine," says Scent Lab chief executive officer Ariana Silvestro. (Ironically, she got her start as a store manager for Bath & Body Works—one of body mist trend's early starting points.) "But these mists can also work and blend well together to create a really nice custom potion if you're scent-layering them."
Scent Lab's first scents join a lineup of award-winning candles, in blends ranging from a light rose to a musky cedar.
Body mist collectors wanting to go the DIY route can order any (or all) of the six scents and pour them into the potion bottle however they want. But for perfume novices, Scent Lab has nine "home run" recommended potion bundles that combine two mists (in a half-and-half ratio) or one mist with a splash of another.
Scent Lab chief marketing officer Ali Kriegsman says these mix-and-match fragrances are as much a response to those 34 million scent-mixing TikTok views as they are a natural next step for the business. Already, people are "mix and matching scents to smell different and unique every day. They're layering like crazy, they're building out scent wardrobes spanning luxury perfumes and more mass mists," she explains. These sets just formalize the process.
CEO Ariana Silvestro says the fragrances are complex enough to wear solo—but they can also be layered in pairs (or more).
No one's required to follow Scent Lab's scent instructions—meaning there's almost infinite variability depending on the aromas ordered and the way they're blended. That's a complicated proposition. Fun as it is to play master perfumer from the comfort of your own home, shouldn't scent development and proportions be left to the professionals for reliable, good-smelling results?
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The brand's founders say these mists are formulated to avoid unsavory outcomes—that is, a potion that smells more like a witch's brew and less like a light, wearable perfume. "We worked really long and hard with our fragrance house to ensure that these endless combinations were basically dummy-proof," Silvestro says.
"Our perfume mists are a 12 percent fragrance load and designed with our fragrance house so that you get longevity and blendability. Even if you mix like five of these together," the CEO explains, "they should still smell amazing." And definitely unlike anyone else.

Halie LeSavage is the senior fashion and beauty news editor at Marie Claire, where she assigns, edits, and writes stories for both sections. Halie is an expert on runway trends, celebrity style, emerging fashion and beauty brands, and shopping (naturally). In over seven years as a professional journalist, Halie’s reporting has ranged from fashion week coverage spanning the Copenhagen, New York, Milan, and Paris markets, to profiles on industry insiders like celebrity stylist Molly Dickson, to breaking news stories on noteworthy brand collaborations and beauty product launches. (She can personally confirm that Bella Hadid’s Ôrebella perfume is worth the hype.) She has also written dozens of research-backed shopping guides to finding the best tote bags, ballet flats, and more. Most of all, Halie loves to explore what style trends—like the rise of emotional support accessories or TikTok’s 75 Hard Style Challenge—can say about culture writ large. She also justifies almost any purchase by saying it’s “for work.”
Halie has previously held writer and editor roles at Glamour, Morning Brew, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has been cited as a fashion and beauty expert in The Cut, CNN Underscored, and Reuters, among other outlets, and appears in newsletters like Selleb and Self Checkout to provide shopping recommendations. In 2022, she earned the Hearst Spotlight Award for excellence and innovation in fashion journalism. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Harvard College. Outside of work, Halie is passionate about books, baking, and her miniature Bernedoodle, Dolly. For a behind-the-scenes look at her reporting, you can follow Halie on Instagram and TikTok.
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