Luminis is a queer-owned business that specializes in unique, interesting scents inspired by pop culture and aimed at nerdy and bookish communities. The core concept behind Luminis is “non-visual representation of concepts, people, and places”. As a person with aphantasia, I am unable to visualize images in my head, so I wanted to take the concept of something like “fanart” and make it into an olfactory experience instead of a visual one. That eventually expanded obliquely into wanting to offer alternatives to candles targeting readers (particularly women) with witty names but scents that had no relation to the concepts on the label. This has expanded further still into providing those same unique scents in the form of skincare and wearable fragrance! I relish the creative challenge involved with my work and hope that you can experience what I do through scent.