New Forum Suggestion: Perfumers Board

The other day I was thinking about how I really like to learn about the perfumer behind a scent, and how odd it is that Basenotes, a forum dedicated to all things perfume, does not have a specific board for the discussion of perfumers. It would be like a music forum having areas to go to discuss individual songs or albums, but not the bands or musicians that authored them!

I find that it is often possible to begin to understand a perfumer's style and trademark accords/techniques/approaches if one looks into a number of their compositions and analyzes them closely. I'd love to be able to discuss all of this with everyone in a more structured fashion than just a haphazard thread here or there on the MFD which would quickly get buried, thus my proposal that we open a new forum specifically for discussion of the perfumers.

I don't know what the best format for the board would be. My initial thoughts are that it should be alphabetized like the Note Pad Forum, but instead of limiting it to one thread per perfumer, my suggestion would be that every thread would need to start in the form of: PerfumerName:Thread Title. Any posts that were not made in such a fashion could be edited by a mod to prepend the perfumer's name to the thread. I think this would work better than the single thread approach of The Note Pad Forum (not saying that that approach doesn't work there, I think it's perfect for The Note Pad forum!) because it would allow a separation of topics relating to a single perfumer instead of them all being clustered in one thread, and yet with the perfumer's name at the beginning of every thread about the perfumer, and with the forum being alphabetized, it would be easy to find a discussion about whatever perfumer you are looking for.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions or comments are welcome!

I didn't mean it as a place where the perfumers themselves would post, although that would be excellent. I also didn't intend for it to be specifically about the fragrances of a given perfumer, although if one were to post about a particular fragrance of that perfumer then the format: Maurice Roucel: Musc Ravageur would definitely be appropriate.

My thoughts were that it could be a board where we discuss different aspects of a given perfumer. Their style.. their influences. Common threads or notes we see in their blends, etc.

For instance:

Jean Claude-Ellena: Water color minimalism
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Many of Ellena's creations have a minimalistic, sheer, weightless and ethereal quality to them. To my nose, this approach comes off as not only transparent but analogous to water colors in painting due to the seamless transitions and softness of the notes present. I also sense a 'water color' approach to a number of Olivia Giacobetti's fragrances, but I feel their styles differ in a number of way... (etc)
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and so on.

Just the slight chance that such a board may actually draw comments from the actual perfumers has me drooling! Can we make this happen?!