Smells Like a Winner

Mix-your-own perfume boutique wafts into Dallas' West Village

This will be the brand's ninth location, and first in Texas.

Photo courtesy of Olfactory NYC

Tom Ford once said, "There is no one-size-fits-all in fragrance, just as there is no one-size-fits-all in life." Dallasites will soon be able to put that into action when Olfactory NYC, a craft-your-own-scent chain, opens in Uptown's West Village.

According to a release, the store will debut in October at 3699 McKinney Ave., #103A, two doors down from Van Leeuwen Ice Cream.

This will be the first Texas location for the modern fragrance house, which offers in-store blending or curated sample kits by mail for customers to create their unique, personalized fragrance.

The experience goes like this: First, customers choose a favorite from nine gender-neutral core fragrances. Then, with the help of a scent advisor, they layer in different accords to create a personalized blend. Guests get to choose their fragrance's bottle label color and hand-stamped label name before it’s created fresh in-store. All custom scents are available for under $100.

For customers who can’t make it to these scent studios, the brand offers an "at-home" version of the custom experience. In addition to fragrances, Olfactory NYC offers body washes, lotions, and solid scent palettes in core scents, all of which are available online.

The new location will be the brand’s ninth retail store and is part of a recent expansion from the original shop in New York City to Atlanta, Boston, Miami, and Washington D.C.

“We look forward to welcoming Dallas into our quickly growing family of stores," says Olfactory NYC founder JJ Vittoria. "For us, retail is designed to create an experience that you can’t find anywhere else — it’s where our customers get to explore, play, and create a fragrance that feels deeply personal to them."

First-rate idea

Goodwill transforms former Plano Walgreens into first small-format store

Photo courtesy of Goodwill

An old Walgreens has become a new Goodwill store in Plano.

UPDATE 7-31-2026: Due to construction delays, the store opening has been pushed back to Thursday, August 13.

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Leave it to Goodwill to find a second use for a former Walgreens. The nonprofit is transforming a vacant drugstore building in Plano into its first ever, small-format store.

According to a release, Goodwill Industries of Dallas will debut the first-of-its-kind store at 3000 McDermott Rd., Plano, on Thursday, August 6.

The organization has converted the former pharmacy into a 10,000-square-foot thrift store and donation center. For comparison, that's less than one-third of the size of the massive, 31,000-square-foot "Broadway store" that opened in Garland earlier this year as the largest Goodwill in Texas and the second largest in the U.S.

The nonprofit says the new concept is designed to serve neighborhoods with a smaller footprint while still offering a steady flow of merchandise. Shoppers can expect about 5,000 new items to hit the sales floor each day, ranging from clothing and housewares to books, toys, and other donated goods.

It's also a creative example of "adaptive reuse" for one of the many drugstores have have shuttered in recent years around Dallas-Fort Worth. (CVS, are you listening?)

The Plano location will create 70 jobs, they say, and include a donation center where residents can drop off gently used items to support Goodwill's workforce development programs.

The opening comes as resale shopping continues to surge nationwide, Goodwill notes. According to the 2024 ThredUp Resale Report, the U.S. secondhand market grew 11 percent in 2023 — seven times faster than the broader retail clothing industry — and is projected to reach $73 billion by 2028.

"This store is a blueprint for how Goodwill Dallas turns vacant spaces into neighborhood assets, creating jobs, funding workforce development, and keeping quality goods accessible to families who need them most," Goodwill Industries of Dallas president and CEO Tim Heis says in the release.

The timing is also fortuitous for shoppers: The store will debut just ahead of Texas' 2026 Tax-Free Weekend, August 7-9, which will offer clothing, footwear, school supplies, backpacks without state sales tax.

Once doors on August 6, open the Plano store will operate 9 am-9 pm Monday-Saturday and 10 am-7 pm Sunday.

Goodwill Industries of Dallas has served North Texas since 1923, using proceeds from its retail stores to fund free job training, employment placement, and career services for people facing barriers to employment across eight North Texas counties.

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