Sfumato Fragrances

With the days of our retail space drawing to a close, we are offering our first ever sale! Through the end of 2025, all retail items are 50% off. Come get candles, books, scent flights and shirts while they are still available. Sfumato's online shop will still be open in 2026, but only carrying full size fragrances. Retail hours 12/26 and 12/27 noon-4:30pm.

We're honored to partner with on their massive new experiential campaign! Scents created by our co-founder, , are paid with sips and bites. Guests move through 5 stations, learning different elements of the brand story while enjoying a strolling dinner. Each scent is based on a different facet of the Maker's Mark flavor: wheat, caramel, oak, cherry, and vanilla. Guests even get to take home a bottle of their favorite! These pics are from the NYC event last week.

Bittersweetly, the current chapter of Castalia will come to a close on New Year’s eve. Sfumato will continue on in digital form, although our physical store will no longer be.

Castalia will be operating normally until the end of the year, at which point a new chapter will begin with a change in ownership and direction. Discussions about the next chapters are underway, and we’ll share more when the time is appropriate, but for now we want to give reverence to the time we’ve had together and enjoy a few moments more. We’d love for you to come check out our final menu in this incarnation, the Afterlife Menu, as we contemplate what’s on the other side.

To be clear, we’re not out of money, we’re not out of ideas, we don’t have issues with our landlord, and our neighborhood is great. Rather, after a marvelous run of 8 years, we are choosing to go out on top. The team is crafting better drinks than ever before, we’ve received national and international press and awards, we keep on innovating, but the same structures we built to climb higher now constrain us. The questions that needed to be addressed when Castalia was born have been answered, and it’s time to make space for new questions. Like the scents upon which our drinks are based, beauty arises from ephemerality, and there is a point where the experience must cease to exist.

We want to express nothing but profound gratitude to everyone who has graced Castalia with their presence, and invite everyone to come and bid farewell.

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory" - Leonard Nimoy

Bittersweetly, the current chapter of Castalia will come to a close at the end of the year. We will be operating normally until the end of the year, at which point a new chapter will begin with a change in ownership and direction. This also means the Sfumato store will be closing, but the brand will carry on, and can be found online and at your favorite small retailer. Discussions about the next chapters for the team and the space are underway, and we’ll share more when the time is appropriate, but for now we want to give reverence to the time we’ve had together and enjoy a few moments more. We’d love for you to come check out our final menu in this incarnation, the Afterlife Menu, as we contemplate what’s on the other side.

To be clear, we’re not out of money, we’re not out of ideas, we don’t have issues with our landlord, and our neighborhood is great. Rather, after a marvelous run of 8 years, we are choosing to go out on top. The team is crafting better drinks than ever before, we’ve received national and international press and awards, we keep on innovating, but the same structures we built to climb higher now constrain us. The questions that needed to be addressed when Castalia was born have been answered, and it’s time to make space for new questions. Like the scents upon which our drinks are based, beauty arises from ephemerality, and there is a point where the experience must cease to exist.

We want to express nothing but profound gratitude to everyone who has graced Castalia with their presence, and invite everyone to come and bid farewell.

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory” - Leonard Nimoy

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Still a few seats left for our Fragrance Creation Class this Sunday, October 5th!
Learn about the science behind scent, try a fragrant cocktail, and create your own personal fragrance from natural perfumery ingredients. Learn, smell, and sip through this 90-minute class as you learn the basics of fragrance creation. Each guest will create a small bottle of their own custom fragrance to take home.
Treat yourself to a fun Sunday. Learn something new. Reserve and details in bio!

Our very own Erica Kassel ( ) has been researching the ties between poisoners and perfumers. Both have erudite knowledge of botany, how those plants affect the body and mind, and require intimate access. She has condensed the key points into a lecture for the Salon series hosted by . Grab a ticket to learn the fascinating history and enjoy a cocktail on October 27.

A few seats left for our September 14 scent- making class, taught by Erica Kassel! Head over to Castalia's Tock profile to sign up.

Happy Valentine’s Day 💕 the most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself. Sending love for a lovely day and lovely weekend 🫶

If you like molecules, you're gonna love this tasting! A couple seats left...

Thank you for hosting! We had an excellent happy hour and cocktail class, and it was great to take the scented cocktail show on the road. Y'all are wonderful to work with, and we loved meeting so many great folks in Minneapolis! The reception for Kevin's book, Cocktail Theory, was amazing!

Happy Eclipse day! The solar eclipse that crosses the US grazes Detroit today. 99% totality and we are here for it 🙌 🌑
When we named our popular candle Eclipse last spring, we didn’t know it would be so close to us this year! Mind blowing that there won’t be another total solar eclipse in the US until 2045. Get out that if you can 😎

🎁 Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them? Give them the gift of choice with a Sfumato gift card. We offer physical gift cards and eGift cards. eGift cards are available online and delivered by email for you to print or forward to the recipient, and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout. Visit sfumatofragrances.com/products/gift-card to purchase an e-gift card now!

Photos by EE Berger