NATURAL PERFUMERY

I am a person that cannot tolerate any artificial fragrance. I cannot handle dryer sheets, laundry soap, dish soap, perfume, deodorant, makeup, shampoo, conditioner, hair products, body products, etc. with any petrochemical based fragrance or with any formaldehyde. That is one reason why I grow my own herbs and why we make our own ... everything. While there are many natural product companies out there these days, they are expensive and many are allowed to still contain synthetic chemicals while still being called "natural" - I can always tell when I flush and get hives. So, I started making my own perfume. 

This life of fragrance sensitivity as led me to aromatherapy and the use of all natural distillations of plants via essential oils and hydrosols. I have a very sensitive sense of smell - as in I can smell your mildewy old book or dryer sheets from a hundred feet - and so in order for me to enjoy aroma, it must be pure and natural. 

Many people with fragrance sensitivities believe it is ALL fragrance, but I have found, for us and many,  it is fake chemical scents (including most synthetic ingredients) that cause the big reactions, and some people including myself can tolerate pure essential oils.  So, making perfumes and scents as aromatherapy as well as personal fragrance is a topic I am passionate about.  I love to grow my own aromatics and infuse them into alcohol, oils, butters, or lotions, distill them into hydrosols, and blend those things with essential oils to create amazingly rich, deep, and aromatic aromas. Aroma is therapeutic to me on all levels from fresh flowers to a blended personal fragrance. 

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Perfumery is an art and a science, a delicate dance of balance and hues of color and intensity, but in smell. Aromatic elements all layer within their frequencies to create a new and unique profile that interacts with our own bodies, environments, olfactory system, and subtle aromatic elements. It is wonderful to make something with a profound impact on say, mood, while also learning more about the different plants and elements in our explorations.

Over the past few years I have grown tired at how scents and fragrances are gendered. There is no masculine or feminine smell other than what we make up out of the clear blue sky. How is juniper for only some folks and not others. Why do we need gendered scents? What about the amazing diversity of gender expressions and diversity of humans who have different preferences and scent experiences. I love creating aromas that are NOT for him or her, but for us as a whole without any arbitrary binary. This is an exciting area in aromatherapy and fragrance, I think, cleaving out all natural fragrance without chemicals and without gender binaries. Keep an eye on this space for more explorations in aromatherapy, plant aromatics, aromatic herbalism, and natural perfumery.