Kevin Schepis
Kevin Schepis built his fragrance house from a deeply personal aesthetic vocabulary rather than a traditional perfumery apprenticeship. A Brazilian creative with a pronounced dark sensibility, Schepis first built an audience through social media, where his shadow-laced imagery and gothic leanings drew a community of followers drawn to the romantic side of the macabre. That online world became the testing ground for his transition into scent. Rather than entering the industry through the conventional route of training under established noses, he developed his compositions by translating visual and literary obsessions into olfactory form. The brand, known officially as KSCHEPIS, emerged as a direct extension of his personal mythology, a project where horror, cult cinema, and nocturnal beauty converge. Today he operates as both creative director and perfumer for a small catalog that has nonetheless cultivated a devoted international following, with collectors in the United States and Europe actively hunting for his limited offerings.
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Notable creations
The signature
How Kevin composes
Schepis gravitates toward materials with weight and shadow. His compositions tend to lean dark and atmospheric, often built around resinous textures, smoky accords, and brooding florals rather than bright citrus or airy musks. Titles like Vampire Blood and From Hell signal a fondness for the cinematic and the transgressive, suggesting he enjoys pushing compositions toward something vampiric, candlelit, and faintly unsettling. He works at a small scale, which allows each release to feel like a single distinct chapter rather than part of a commercial rotation. The overall signature is gothic, intimate, and decidedly nocturnal, built for wearers who prefer their fragrances to whisper rather than announce.
Philosophy
What drives Kevin
Schepis approaches fragrance as wearable fiction. Each bottle is meant to summon a specific mood, scene, or character, drawing on horror cinema, gothic literature, and the romantic darkness that runs through both. He believes perfume should tell a story rather than simply decorate the wearer, and his thematic naming reflects that conviction. For him, a scent is most successful when it evokes something the player has read, watched, or dreamed. This narrative-first thinking also shapes how he develops new work: concept precedes composition, and the bottle itself becomes part of the storytelling. Schepis seems to view his brand as a creative universe with recurring muses, an approach that gives even his smaller releases a sense of continuity and intent.
The houses