November Nichols is the founder and chief executive of Chémin, a luxury olfactory label and one of the only Black-owned brands with its own fragrance house.  As Nichols explained, the spark for starting her brand came from a few different places, from emotional burnout to (unknowingly) embracing a familial tradition.  Before launching Chémin in 2016, the self-described “accidental entrepreneur” had spent a decade working in education publishing, a field she excelled in, but was b