When Kimberly Pimentel first walked into the newly leased commercial space in downtown Eugene’s Miner Building, it was bare and white with ugly lights, a cold cement floor and a large architectural gash in the wall. She knew she had found the perfect place to open her perfumery, and she was never going to change a thing about it. “This is a 100-year-old floor,” she says. “It’s seen so many things.”

Pocket O’ Posies Perfumerie is a sophisticated, high-end gothic apothecary in an otherwise sleek and modernistic building. It bears a plague doctor surrounded by flowers as its logo, whose essence is present throughout the dark minimalistic gray and red shop. The room is warmly lit with vintage lamps, illuminating bottles of niche fragrances from all over the world alongside displays of novels

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