CherrykasTrunk
Announcement
Are you a fan of gunslingers, space explorers, superheroes, zombies, supernatural hunters, and horror? We've got the perfect fragrances for you! Established 11 May 2013, we have over 400 handmade fragrances for all genders in 100% jojoba carrier oil designed to help you put on the mantle of your favorite hero, be transported into their arms, or act as your passport to a specific moment in time and place.
Take a look around and choose which story you want to drop into, whether it's the back seat of a big black car roaring down the road as two brothers listen to classic rock, a crumbling Southern plantation in the grips of the zombie apocalypse, a city at the bottom of the sea, cloudy skyscrapers over which vigilantes fly, or many more.
Welcome to Cherry-ka's Trunk. There are other worlds than these. 🌹
1 November 2022 C.E. Announcement: I cannot ship to Germany currently. As soon as I can afford a business Tax ID #, I will be able to ship there safely again!
6 October 2022 C.E. Announcement: I appreciate everyone's understanding about the price raise in shipping! I've been paying a quarter of the shipping costs, but in addition to the items in the last announcement and a struggle to pay medical bills, I'm unable to eat the shipping cost any longer. I so immensely appreciate everyone's support and understanding.
22 August 2022 C.E. Announcement: I have been obliged due to inflation, war, the ongoing global pandemic, Etsy's raising its sellers fees despite record profits during the aforementioned pandemic, and my constant increase in material quality, among other reasons (my health chief among them) to end my practice of offering a free sample per order. I had been doing that since I opened my shop over nine years ago, and simply have not been able to afford to do so.
I wanted to bring a luxury good to as many people as possible, and make as safe-ish as I could the practice of buying a fragrance online where you can't smell it, and I have been so grateful for the time I have been able to spend doing that. This is my middle ground, between keeping the free samples and raising my prices to keep up with inflation, and removing the free samples and not drowning under capitalism.
I appreciate your understanding and your support immensely. This is currently my only job due to my current location and the dangers of the pandemic. I am so grateful to all of you, and hope to see you 'round soon, and for many more years to come.
Personal requests:
We ask that you don't gender our fragrances. Fragrances take on the gender of their wearer at that moment in time (and there are far more than two genders), and therefore are themselves gender neutral. It would also make us feel safer if they didn't get a gender assigned to them.
We ask that you note if you aren't already aware that "gypsy" is a racial and ethnic slur used against the Romani people. "gyp" and "gypped" comes from this word and are also slurs. The word for us in English is Romani, and only Romani sellers have a right to use it and profit from the racist stereotypes associated with it here on Etsy, as it is still used to this day to discriminate against us, kick us out of countries, bulldoze our homes, and traffic us to this very day.
Thank you so much for the consideration, this helps make the world a safer place for trans and Romani consumers and creators! :)
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Reviews
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Amber on May 21, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThe sample is exactly what the pen smells like. My new go to daily scent fragrance now. Reminiscent of the time when I was 6 years old and found a box of kittens myself. I'll be ordering more when it runs out too. Seller exactly on time and faster than expected too so it is definitely my favorite new go to daily scent fragrance now
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Amber on May 21, 2023
5 out of 5 starsLove it so much very happy with my box of kittens rollerball pen. It's just amazing and reminiscent of the day once before when I found a box of kittens myself at 6 years old. My new favorite daily scent now and I will be ordering more when it runs out.
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Morrigan on Mar 30, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThere's something familiar about this one I can't put a finger on, but it's really nice and soothing 😌
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A on Jan 28, 2023
5 out of 5 starsI bought 7 scents with names that conjured visions of the desert. I will update this review with the actual scent as it translate on my skin. Initially I was skeptical when I opened to smell each little vial. I was taken aback with the strong "perfumy" smell. I am wearing each scent on different days to test it out on my hubby. So far, I've loved the scents I tried, so am looking forward to trying it on.
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Gwyn on May 28, 2023
5 out of 5 starsI've been ordering from Derin and his husband for the past couple years and they've always delivered the best fragrances in a timely manner. The oils themselves don't feel bad on my skin at all, and this is coming from someone with huge texture issues. The scents themselves are always perfect and I hope that more people buy from these two because they are so, so good at what they do. 💙
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Erin on May 27, 2023
5 out of 5 starsA smell-o-story is a really cool, original idea, and the author totally pulls it off. The characters are a mix of familiar and new, transformed by their fragrances in the way that a key music theme for a character in a movie adds emotional depth to the story. The places in the story are similarly enlivened by the chapter fragrances. Places are enhanced into the idea-sphere of Western landscapes that leap from old movies to inhabit the reader's imagination, interacting with the reader at a deep level of emotion, memory, and body. This story is a completely new medium of entertainment. How rare it is to find something so different, and even rarer when an experimental art form engages so well with both the mind and the emotions. I will be reading and experiencing the next books in this series for sure.
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Harmony on May 24, 2023
5 out of 5 starsIt's wonderfully incense-y and spicy, with a subtle smokiness that really make it feel like you've just stepped into a dragon's lair
About CherrykasTrunk
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Derin riding Will Dearborn's Rusher in the Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, USA. -
Raven (left) and Derin (right) vending in front of their vardo in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. -
The trunk of my and my big brother's 1967 Chevy Impala~ -
Derin vending with Raven in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. -
Derin back home in Bonnie Springs Ranch, in Blue Diamond, Nevada, USA.
The road so far...
Shop members
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Derin Deschain
Owner
Our pronouns are (mostly) plural they/them, and we're a Romani, Aniyvnwiya, Jewish, and Creole Two-Spirit DID system who loves to travel. We're a desert witch, medium, tour guide, ranch hand, gunslinger, and Mother of Dragons. 🤠
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Raven Stone
Husband
A Romani, Pavee, Aniyvnwiya Two-Spirit (pronouns: plural they/them) death witch, medium, living statue, and fashion designer who loves to travel. They share their thoughts on many of my fragrances as they're being made. 🧛♂️
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Banan Stone-Deschain
Muse
He's our Maine Coon and Domestic Short Hair porg and inspiration for a few of Cherry-ka's Trunk's fragrances! See his great works in Box of Kittens, Woodland Critters, Black Cat, and more. 🐈
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Headmates
Inspirations
DID alters, witchy headmates, walk-ins from all levels of the Tower, deities, spirit guides, guardians, genii locorum, archetypes, fictives, acquaintances, friends, and family from this world, and other worlds than these. 🌹
Production partners
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LA, CA
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Raven Belmont
Las Vegas, NV
One of my companions.
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LA, CA
The froodiest dude to ever crawl out of a barrel.
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LA, CA
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LA, CA
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Cancellations: not accepted
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Frequently asked questions
Is this note/fragrance feminine/masculine/unisex?
All notes and fragrances are gender neutral. Firstly, there are more than two genders. Secondly, it's impossible for a fragrance to have a gender, or to work better with a specific gender. All fragrances can be worn by all people; it's simply a matter of what scents they prefer. I ask as a non-binary trans man that no one describe any of my fragrances in a gendered way, and thank them for their respect. :)
Will you make a fragrance inspired by (X)?
Probably! Please see both my Bespoke Exclusive Fragrance listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/260236261/bespoke-exclusive-fragrance and my Sponsor a Fragrance listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/499829732/sponsor-a-fragrance
Just send me a message and we'll discuss my making your fragrance idea further.
There are a few fragrances that I will not make for any reason (even if you're fictionkin, fictive, or have them as your headmate), due to safety concerns. Those include:
• Fragrances you've come up with ALL of the notes for already.
• Nazis and other fascists (this includes Hydra, a Nazi organization, & Templars, the Empire etc)
• Rapists (ie.: Eddie Gluskin)
• John Winchester, Castiel, etc.
• Albert Wesker
• Anime and manga canons
Will you combine shipping?
Not at this time. Please please review my shop carefully, feel free to reach out if you're curious about a scent's inspirations or other ideas for a scent that you may like, and finalize your cart before your order is placed. I am hoping to bring this service back in early-to-mid 2024, and I appreciate your attention and understanding.
Why won't you make X scent?
I) I'm a DID and natural multiple system of fictives, and pop culture practitioner.
II) "RAGE:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.
Begin with the clash between Agamemnon--
The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles."
-- Homer, The Iliad, Lines 1-9, Stanley Lombardo translation, 1997 Common Era
Do you offer refunds if my package was lost in the mail?
I'm afraid not.
When will my order ship out?
Etsy includes a real time tracking estimate in the body of every single listing, under Shipping and Return policies. If you hover over "Order placed", you'll get more information. Please check this information before placing an order.
Do you use water/alcohol/coconut oil/sweet almond oil/other non-jojoba oil as a carrier?
No. My fragrances use 100% pure jojoba oil as their carrier, in a parfum strength concentration, which is the strongest, safest concentration I can provide. Jojoba is the best carrier oil you can find. That is part of why these are priced as they are. 🤠
Why are your fragrances priced as they are?
My experience, the price of materials and shipping, Etsy fees, and the quality of materials I use, including making my own fragrance ingredients that can be found nowhere else. I try to keep my costs as low as possible to bring luxury goods to as many folks as I can, but this is my primary job, and I am obliged under capitalism to price my fragrances in a way that serves not to be an expensive hobby, but a profitable business that feeds my family and helps us to help others along the road. I am always happy to provide resources and education about the materials I use to share perfumery with all who are interested in it.
What are your credentials as a perfumer?
I've been a professional perfumer since 11 May 2013, and I've been working with and creating fragrances my entire life. I've been a witch my whole life (and a studying drabarni since 2016), and I am majoring in herbalism, which I hope to achieve a masters' degree in. I have been a professional wilderness survival guide focused on wildcrafting since early March 2013. I offer classes and consultation on desert survival (focusing on the flora of the Mojave and Sonoran) and perfume creation, and have done since 2016. I've worked in the outdoors with plants my entire life. I've also got scent-color synesthesia, which I hope lends an even more uncommon and magical element to my work. 🤠
Are your fragrances available in roller ball or spray bottles?
They are available in dabber bottles (sample sizes) and roller ball bottles (larger sizes). They are held in an oil carrier, not a water or alcohol carrier, so cannot be sprayed without clogging the spray bottle's works. This is safer for pets, other people, etc. as many natural ingredients can harm pets if ingested by licking their fur or people if accidentally sprayed onto their skin via airborne fragrance. Furthermore, as a Desi Old West historical reenactor, I strive for historical precedent and cultural ties in my packaging and products. Oil-based fragrances applied directly to the skin is a grand cultural and historical tradition that I am proud to continue.