The COSP is a network of environmentally and socially conscious creators who through resource sharing, inter-industry relationship building, informed discussion, and collaborative accountability seek to create and distribute scent products that are as sustainable for people and the planet as possible.

Heather D'Angelo is a San Francisco-based perfumer, musician (with the band Au Revoir Simone), and ecologist. The dream for Carta originated while she was collecting botanical samples from the Malaysian rainforest as part of her research at Columbia University. After several years of working with plant-based aromatic compounds, she developed an understanding that scent, like music, is a transformative instrument. Both have the arcane power to suspend moments and places in time.

With Carta, D’Angelo explores the artistry of perfume through her mastery of musical composition and ongoing scientific inquiry. Rooted in her passion for environmental conservation, D’Angelo’s romance with scents is shaped and driven by a commitment to conscious practices and a desire to share the stories behind Carta’s ingredients.

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Mauricio Garcia is a perfumer and certified aromatherapist whose fascination with the botanical world began in his abuelita’s small garden in foggy South San Francisco. Through Herbcraft Perfumery, Mauricio teaches classes and workshops on aromatherapy and perfumery with an emphasis on sustainability, as well as formulates bespoke products and fragrances for individuals and indie brands. Mauricio is also a founding team member of the Ministry of Scent.

Each Herbcraft Perfumery fragrance captures the essence of a particular spirit of situation or space using botanical essences and professional fragrance materials, along with traditional, inventive and esoteric perfumery techniques. 

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Molly Brennan is a natural perfumer and social impact consultant with a background in international sustainable development. She lives in San Francisco. Molly’s love affair with scent began as a small child with her hands in the dirt, cultivating herbs and flowers in her mother’s garden. Her deep reverence for the natural world led her on a journey through environmental activism and restorative justice, into the nonprofit sector and international development work. She developed a deep belief that in order to live in a truly sustainable way we must work in collaboration with the earth's systems of which we are all a part. Molly was inspired to found Sacred Scents as a synthesis of her love for plants, the art of perfumery, and the necessity of personal transformation in relation to a societal shift toward sustainable behavior in business and our personal lives.

House of Sacred Scents: our mission is to assist in connecting people with wisdom and medicine of plants and the natural world through the use of therapeutic grade essential oils and other pure botanical scent materials. We provide an offering to support personal transformation that brings people into deeper loving relationship with themselves and their spiritual exploration of what it means to be part of the universal whole.

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Sydney Buffman is a perfumer, clinical herbalist, and graphic designer. She started SYD Botanica in 2015, making handmade incense. Incense making was her gateway into working with scent creatively. 

Sydney has worked on perfumery commissions for design institutions such as the Stanford d. School and CodaWorx. In addition to her artistic work, she is also the Art Director at Scent Trunk, a perfume publishing house. Sydney has a three pillar approach to creative work that includes deep connections and influences in psychology, science, and spirituality.


Sydney grew up in Pennsylvania. She spent many years in the Bay Area and has also lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Warsaw, Poland. During her time in Europe, she traveled extensively. Sydney currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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The vision of the COSP is a perfume industry that provides high quality safe products to consumers while maintaining the highest level of sustainability practices environmentally, socially, and economically.