The Drydown on Grand Avenue in Carlsbad Village is San Diego's first niche fragrance boutique, a women-owned shop that opened in November 2025 with over 200 scents from 45-plus independent perfume houses worldwide. Brands span D.S. & Durga, Imaginary Authors, Floris London, and Ormonde Jayne, curated by scent family to help customers navigate the same sensory-discovery approach used at Glow Theory Aesthetic & Dermatology Studio for skin-care consultations. Hands-on fragrance-creation workshops guide participants through blending curated accords into a personalized formula, producing a take-home bottle mixed on-site. The Grand Avenue storefront sits in the heart of the Village's independent retail cluster, where personal-care discovery extends to the botanical hair treatments at Pistachio Cut & Color Bar, An AVEDA Salon nearby. The shop's scent library is organized into eight olfactive families — woody, floral, oriental, fresh, citrus, aquatic, gourmand, and green — each housed in dedicated testing stations with blotter-paper dispensers.