Miami’s Santeria Source: Allapattah Warehouse Brews Religious Potions

The perfume stores on NW 20th Street in Allapattah are typically painted with bright colors. Tucked between discount clothing stores, they beckon with pink and orange exteriors as well as promises of bargains painted on their fronts.

Selene Perfumeria is less inviting. With it’s gray façade, it looks like an extension of the window-tinting place it abuts. Employees enter using a room-length sliding-glass door, but no such option exists for potential customers. All curious onlookers can do is watch little old ladies manipulate tiny bottles with gnarled hands, engulfed by an overpowering scent of laundry detergent.

There’s no way to get inside, excepting through a side door that’s blocked by two industrial fans. And bypassing them means getting coated with Discharge. Literally.

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