What kind of perfumes do you like? I am often asked by sales people in shops. I like them all! I say, compelled to tell the truth although I realise it’s not a helpful answer. For a long time I approached perfume as a source of intellectual pleasure, the rabbit hole leading to intriguing information from history, aesthetics, botany and chemistry, visual culture, business administration and marketing. More recently, I learned to simply take pleasure in it, to allow a moment of abandon into the beauty of a great fragrance. To this day the greatest pleasure is in sharing such a moment of joy with friends and clients, to forge a bond through marvelling at the beauty of the fragrant world. As our perfumery teacher taught us, perfume is love.
I chose to work entirely with naturals for two reasons. First, experiencing first hand the beauty and complexity of natural molecules, I wanted to create such moments for my clients. Second, I like the idea of working with nature and am perpetually curious to see how fragrances evolve (unlike lab created molecules which tend to be more stabile and predictable). There is an integrity to working to naturals but also a gesture of surrender to nature, of allowing oneself to be part of something equality interesting and surprising.
