Arabelle Sicardi

LITERARY NON-FICTION WRITER & MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST

United States

Summer 2026

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Contact Info

Website: arabellesicardi.xyz

BIOGRAPHY

Arabelle Sicardi is an award-winning writer and creative whose work has centered beauty, community, and political power for the past ten years. They are the author of The House of Beauty, a forthcoming adult-nonfiction book on the beauty industry. They are also the founder and facilitator of Perfumed Pages, a scent-centered creative incubator where perfumers and cross-disciplinary creatives work together on a series of prompts and limited-engagement events related to scent.

PROJECT

Arabelle Sicardi will be working on research for a nonfiction book on fragrance culture called Perfume Kingdom. Perfume Kingdom is a book that transforms the perfumer’s organ into a vehicle to travel on through a sensorial kingdom that spans the world. Readers begin their journey with the stories behind the materials and spiral out to the people who farm them, formulate them, shape their stories, shill them, bootleg them, steal them, buy them, and who are memorialized through it in death, too. Scent is an ancient legacy, and readers will travel across time through the smoke of it, like the gods it was meant to honor.

Perfume Kingdom dismantles the convention that perfume began as a European story of luxury and glamour. It is centered around the reality that fragrance culture is older than civilization, and in that centering, it reveals how the oldest regions in the world have created much of the bounty we all profit from. Through this work, Sicardi charts a sensorial map of power, memory, and desire.