MARCUS EMIL ASKINS

Marcus Emil Askins was born to Elias and Willie Askins on March 15, 1973 in Natchez, Mississippi. He was raised in a middle class neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Having exhibited clinical OCD traits and a distinctly complicated relationship with patience(which he would jokingly say, 'half my brain is ADHD so there's always a party going on upstairs'). He quickly grew frustrated with excelling in his art classes and yearned to be working in the art industry. After dropping out of The University of Tennessee as an art major he travelled in his 1989 Toyota Tercel with $300 dollars in his pocket and a dream to pursue an art career at 19 years of age.

As life would have it he ended up living out of his car as the proverbial starving artist and relented to getting a 'real' job. Thus began his eventful career in sales and the service industry for the next 30 years. Within that time he traveled and lived in most of the major cities in the US as well as living in Johannesburg, Namibia, Sydney, Lanzarote, Puerto Rico and visiting many more.

For his entire life he's always had a natural affinity and consequent aptitude towards all things art related. He's won awards in illustration, film, poetry, karate, and has worked in and excelled in the culinary and fashion industry. 

When he discovered perfumery his clients took quick notice of his inclination for identifying high quality fragrances with only a few months experience in the field. Furthermore his penchant for mixing fragrances to create livelier more pronounce scents was of particular note(and exasperation) to his close colleagues.

True to form as has always been the case he took a deep dive into the art and science of aromachology and made a rapid transition into marketing his own fragrances.

As a deeply spiritual person he noticed that the perfume industry heavily focuses on the seduction aspects of the sensory appeal. His personal relationship with his beliefs as well as meaningful relationships with those closest to him inspired his theme of the sensual that ascends to the spiritual. This is the essence of his fragrance line Immersion, from purity to passage. Launching in August of 2023.