Write it down.
Fraghab publishes editorials by fragrance creators — reviews, essays and reporting on the industry, the culture, and the people you already talk to every day. A large following is not the requirement. Send one sample and you get an answer within 24 hours.
Answered in 24 hours · you keep your work · your posts embed in your pieces
Why we are asking
The best writing about fragrance is trapped in video
Most of the good thinking about fragrance happens in ninety-second clips and comment replies, where nobody can search it and it is gone in a week. What gets written down instead is press releases and affiliate lists, and the same forty scents ranked forever. This is a page for the people already doing the thinking.
Your posts, inside your writing
Your TikToks, Reels and videos go in the piece as credited cards linking straight to your profile. A reader who finds you here can follow you where you already post.
A catalogue to write against
About five thousand fragrances, with wearing data, community ratings and note breakdowns behind them — all of it there to write against, and to link to when you want it.
A byline that is actually yours
Your name on the piece and a page that collects everything you file. Not a house account with your handle in the footer.
Distribution you are not paying for
Your pieces run in the app and on pages built to be found in search, and nothing here decays because you skipped a week.
The bar
What actually gets you in
We read the sample before anything else on the form. Follower counts and posting history are context, not the decision.
An argument — Anyone can rank ten summer scents. We want the person who noticed why all ten smell like the same three molecules, and can make that worth reading.
Somewhere you are standing — You worked a counter. You buy vintage. You live somewhere that ruins everything by noon. You are nineteen and all of this is new to you. Tell us which one — that is the piece only you can file.
Sentences that carry — You do not have to be a professional writer. You do have to keep a reader for eight hundred words without a hook, a jump cut, or a trending sound underneath you.
Your own words — Written by you, not by a model. We check, and it is the one thing that ends the conversation.
The application
One form, and one real piece of writing
Contact details, your profiles, what you want to cover, and a sample editorial of roughly three hundred to eight hundred words. Write it here or paste it in. Published work is fine; so is something nobody has seen.
- 01Someone reads itYour sample gets read start to finish, by a person rather than a filter. You get a yes or a no within 24 hours.
- 02We agree the first pieceIdeally something you already wanted to write. You get a contributor account, a byline page and the embed tools.
- 03Then you fileAt whatever pace you said you could manage. Your work runs with your posts inside it, and your page collects it as it goes.
Before you start
The obvious questions
If yours is not here, ask through the contact form before you write anything.
- Do I need a big following to apply?
- No. We read the sample first and decide on that. A few hundred followers and an argument worth eight hundred words will get further here than a large account posting rankings.
- Can I post my TikToks and Reels inside my articles?
- Yes — as cards that credit you and link straight out to the post, not as players embedded in the page. A reader who finds you here can follow you where you already publish. We are not trying to move your audience onto Fraghab. We would rather send you ours.
- Who owns what I write?
- You do. You grant Fraghab the right to publish it and keep it published. The copyright stays yours, you can run the piece anywhere else, and nothing you file gets edited into something you did not write without your sign-off.
- What do you publish?
- Reviews and essays, reporting, and arguments you want to make about the industry, the culture around it, or the money in it. Not press releases or affiliate roundups, and nothing written by a language model.
- How long does it take to hear back?
- A day. Someone reads the sample and you get a yes or a no within 24 hours of sending it.
Applications open
Somebody has to write this stuff down
If you have spent the last two years explaining fragrance to a camera, you already have the hard part. The rest is a page and eight hundred words.
Answered in 24 hours · you keep your work
Have a look round first
Know what you would be writing into
Read the catalogue and the community before you pitch. An account is free, and it is the quickest way to see what there is to write about.
