The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Kedra Hart is the perfumer behind Les Bohemes: Giggle Water, a fragrance built around playful orange blossom, sweet white musk, and a creamy sandalwood drydown. The name suggests water, laughter, and the easy pleasure of a scent that enters without asking permission. Its citrus and floral accord gives the composition an immediate lift, while peach and honey bring a warm, fruit-like sweetness into the heart. Musk softens that brightness without flattening it, and sandalwood gives the final impression a polished, creamy finish. The result is a fragrance framed as sheer delight and a crowd pleaser, with a lively personality that feels at home in the Les Bohemes collection.
What makes Giggle Water interesting is the way its orange blossom notes do more than smell pretty. Tunisian, Egyptian, and bitter orange blossom absolutes create a layered floral-citrus profile, while neroli adds a cleaner, more luminous edge. Mandarin orange and wild orange keep the brightness moving, and peach gives the composition a ripe, rounded sweetness. Honey makes that sweetness more tactile, ambergris brings a subtle mineral warmth, and gardenia adds another creamy floral note.
The evolution
The composition is led by mandarin orange, wild orange, neroli, and orange blossom, creating a sunny, polished impression with a lightly fizzy lift. The citrus notes move briskly across the first impression, then settle into peach and honey, whose rounded sweetness gives the fragrance a warm, fruit-like center. Gardenia and the orange blossom absolutes add fullness and a creamy floral texture, while ambergris contributes quiet mineral depth. White musk softens the edges without flattening the brightness, and sandalwood leaves a calm, creamy base with lightly musky warmth and a trace of honeyed sweetness. Together, these notes create a lively yet polished trail that feels playful, expressive, and inviting.
Cultural impact
Giggle Water fits a playful cultural register as an expressive, approachable fragrance with a crowd-pleasing attitude. Its lively name and bright combination of citrus, orange blossom, peach, honey, musk, and sandalwood make it feel suited to anyone drawn to fragrances that are cheerful, polished, and easy to wear. The composition balances sparkling freshness with a creamy, warm finish, giving it a distinctive place within playful, expressive scent culture.
The House
Opus OilsOpus Oils is a perfume atelier and custom fragrance studio operating from Hollywood, California. Founded by industry veteran Kedra Hart, the studio specializes in bespoke scent creation alongside a collection of original fragrances. The Jitterbug Perfume Parlour, located at 1703 North Kenmore Avenue, functions as the brand's appointment-only workshop where clients engage in hands-on fragrance design sessions. Hart's background includes development work at The Apothecary counter within Barneys New York in Beverly Hills, experience that shaped her approach to scent curation and formulation. The studio's portfolio spans multiple fragrance families, from dark gourmand compositions like Afraid of the Dark: Ode de Vampyre to tropical interpretations such as Island Girl: Tropique, which features Madagascar-sourced materials. Opus Oils positions itself within the custom fragrance segment, offering clients the opportunity to participate in constructing their own signatures through the studio's proprietary pre-blended base palette.
The Creator
Kedra HartHart bridges classical perfumery foundations with a distinctly Southern California sensibility. She favors high-quality naturals, drawn to the complexity and unpredictability they bring to a composition.










































