Haunting Love

And I think with your fragrance line, because in our last episode, we discussed when the crawdad sings, if I remember correctly, and you did some scent pairings to that.

So that wasn't to your actual fragrances like we discussed earlier.

the three fragrances that you were set to release.

But we kind of didn't do a pairing for those particular fragrances.

But it's interesting, like all of your fragrances do have like a strong story or a narrative, sometimes a little bit naughty, sometimes very mysterious and exotic.

And some of it's like linked to a strong sense of nostalgia.

So that kind of moment that we were talking about of recalling something, I think really speaks to golden thread because that's a moment from your childhood,

is it not? It is a very strong memory.

And in that fragrance, my objective was to create the golden light, early morning, hot summer days, golden light coming through the window.

And all the associated fragrances that I tie up with growing up on the beach as a kid, which is the smell of warm skin in the sun, the smell of the jasmine in the garden heating up in the mornings.

It's those very, very hot Aussie summer mornings where you've got that north wind going where you smell the flowers really heating up quite early.

Using ambers and using golden resinous things and even a little cheeky pop of very creamy tiny pop a little banana which to me represents eating Barney banana ice creams in the sand after a long day on the beach trying to capture all of those things in this fragrance so for me it's quite a personal and a very nostalgic fragrance and it's interesting a lot of women around my genre who have grown up in the area and have had shared childhoods on the beach have smelt this.

One lady just burst into tears because she's like, you have nailed it.

You have nailed this.

So for me, creating fragrances is, you know, it is a very personal thing.

I couldn't do it any other way.

There's other ways of working, but for me, it's got to be hands-on and it's got to have a great story.

It's got to have a memory.

It's got to have some kind of link that draws the passion into the actual creation of the product.

Perfumes are great.

You can have like very lovely, pretty, smelly water.

But I think that if there is kind of a story and a little bit of soul behind it, it's not just about being beautiful.

It's about recreating a particular experience or taking people to a particular place.

I think that that really does make the experience of wearing the fragrance just something that's a little bit more special.

I mean, you can wear a beautiful fragrance and attach your own memories to it, but having something that is created to take you to a particular place or a memory that is shared with that perfumer, translating that story, I think is something that's just really beautiful.

And I think with your fragrance line, because in our last episode, we discussed when the crawdad sings, if I remember correctly, and you did some scent pairings to that.

So that wasn't to your actual fragrances like we discussed earlier.

the three fragrances that you were set to release.

But we kind of didn't do a pairing for those particular fragrances.

But it's interesting, like all of your fragrances do have like a strong story or a narrative, sometimes a little bit naughty, sometimes very mysterious and exotic.

And some of it's like linked to a strong sense of nostalgia.

So that kind of moment that we were talking about of recalling something, I think really speaks to golden thread because that's a moment from your childhood,

is it not? It is a very strong memory.

And in that fragrance, my objective was to create the golden light, early morning, hot summer days, golden light coming through the window.

And all the associated fragrances that I tie up with growing up on the beach as a kid, which is the smell of warm skin in the sun, the smell of the jasmine in the garden heating up in the mornings.

It's those very, very hot Aussie summer mornings where you've got that north wind going where you smell the flowers really heating up quite early.

Using ambers and using golden resinous things and even a little cheeky pop of very creamy tiny pop a little banana which to me represents eating Barney banana ice creams in the sand after a long day on the beach trying to capture all of those things in this fragrance so for me it's quite a personal and a very nostalgic fragrance and it's interesting a lot of women around my genre who have grown up in the area and have had shared childhoods on the beach have smelt this.

One lady just burst into tears because she's like, you have nailed it.

You have nailed this.

So for me, creating fragrances is, you know, it is a very personal thing.

I couldn't do it any other way.

There's other ways of working, but for me, it's got to be hands-on and it's got to have a great story.

It's got to have a memory.

It's got to have some kind of link that draws the passion into the actual creation of the product.

Perfumes are great.

You can have like very lovely, pretty, smelly water.

But I think that if there is kind of a story and a little bit of soul behind it, it's not just about being beautiful.

It's about recreating a particular experience or taking people to a particular place.

I think that that really does make the experience of wearing the fragrance just something that's a little bit more special.

I mean, you can wear a beautiful fragrance and attach your own memories to it, but having something that is created to take you to a particular place or a memory that is shared with that perfumer, translating that story, I think is something that's just really beautiful.