Miriam Shechet
Miriam Shechet didn't set out to become a perfumer. The path started sideways, through a dating app connection that eventually led her to someone who shared a fascination with scent chemistry. A trained scientist with the discipline of a chemist, she spent a full year teaching herself the architecture of fragrance before she felt ready to show the world what she had built. In December 2022, she launched LabHouse Perfume at New Hampshire farmers markets and craft fairs, pouring and labeling every bottle herself. The brand quickly grew into something larger than a side project. She co-founded it alongside fellow perfumer Macaul Neenan, and together the two operate what they describe as a true perfumery, one that formulates at the molecular level rather than relying on premixed bases. Today the work spans bespoke commissions, pop-up workshops, and a growing catalog of original releases, all grounded in the rigor of someone who approaches scent like a laboratory problem worth solving beautifully.
The hits
Notable creations
The signature
How Miriam composes
Working from the ground up gives Shechet uncommon control over every layer of a composition. She reaches for materials that can surprise a wearer: birch tar and oud for smoky gravity, myrrh and Peru balsam for resinous warmth, vetiver and cedarwood for structure. Vanilla appears when a formula calls for sweetness without obvious confectionery. Her floral work, as in her collaboration on the fruity-floral Juicy For Her, shows a lighter register, but the underlying instinct stays consistent: build clean, build stable, and let unusual ingredients speak without apology. She also designs the graphics on her own bottles, a detail that confirms her interest in the total object, the scent and everything that frames it.
Philosophy
What drives Miriam
Shechet treats perfumery as applied chemistry with an artistic pulse. Her creative approach starts with stability and structure: every formula must hold together in the bottle, behave predictably on skin, and remain accessible to the customer who buys it. From that technical foundation, she builds compositions that invite participation rather than passive admiration. Workshop programming at LabHouse literally walks participants through the construction of a scent, demystifying the raw materials and the logic behind accords. She views fragrance as a teaching tool, a craft that rewards curiosity. The romantic image of a perfumer cloaked in velvet is not her aesthetic. Hers is closer to a workshop where light pours across beakers and someone explains, with genuine pleasure, why a molecule behaves the way it does.
The houses
Maisons Miriam composes for
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