Our Backgrounds

 

Can you speak on your background?

 

The road to perfumery started for me in the kitchen. I started cooking at a young age. During college, somehow I worked in a kitchen for a few years. My father used to bring perfumes around the house after business trips, so I was exposed to quite a few things from a young age – food, culture, languages, people, customs. These experiences early on helped to expand the “size” of my world – and continues to do so.
My official road to perfumery began after I was introduced to niche perfumery.  It took me long to figure out the materials used I was learning about formed the foundation and basics of  perfumery and cosmetic, Flavour, Fragrance, Incense, and other Industries. And like that…I decided to start making perfumes.
“I was never business material. my family backgrounds was kind of into business but somehow  – without knowing it…I set out to make a few marks of my own on the world, following in footsteps I hadn’t initially realised were even there.

 

Do you have any profound scent memories from growing up?

The kitchen, for starters. when my mother cooks an di stand there by the door with wide open eyes watching how she was incorporating the spice an the fragrant smells that followed straight after, I was admiring and questioning everything at the same time.
as a kid I was always drawn to wood fires and trouble,  the smell of burning resinous logs, Saffron tea, rose water my mother used  when she was baking sweets for me and my sister;  we also had a cherry blossom tree in our front of our house where we were growing up…mmm I remember t was so fragrant in spring ), and incense – which, somehow, I had discovered at a younger age though.

 

What were you doing before you became involved with scent and the perfume world?

 

I was cooking, I am still in love with cooking, I might not or never be the best at it but one thing for sure I that I do still enjoy it evrytime I do. It brings back my childhood memories, the scents that take me back in time. It was as fun as you’d imagine it to be  and it pays the bills (sound like any stripper stories to you??) 
And while doing this – I started a perfume company, eventually began custom distilling various materials sometimes without any previous knowledge and all of that led to this moment right here...

 

Can you remember the moment you decided to commit to becoming a perfumer? How did you know it would be such a big part of your life?

I can. Once it dawned on me that all of these materials I was learning about formed the backbone of half a dozen multi-billion dollar markets – I began researching perfume immediately. I eventually called my sister, who works in the diplomatic sector – and ran the idea of starting a small online business.  she told me it was the risky, and the competition is huge, that It's a big wild world out there and most people buy brands and it would cost you loads of  money .  but I convinced her at the end. she believed in me and supported me through it all. we all need siblings like that don't we...?