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Singer. Entrepreneur. Fragrance Expert. And He’s Only 20. — Meet Max Hartley ’29
33 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Max Hartley ’29 has been at Cornell for one month—and somehow he’s already everywhere. The 20-year-old sophomore transfer is studying in ILR, singing with Last Call A Cappella, running, building businesses and creating Sillage—what he calls “Letterboxd for fragrance fans.” We talk about leaving a college he loved for Cornell, finding his people as a transfer, getting the knock on his dorm-room door that changed his Cornell experience, and why he can sometimes identify a stranger’s cologne jus...