I just finished reading a book by Celia Lyttelton entitled The Scent Trail. She introduced me to the concept of a "bespoke fragrance" (just one of many things I am learning about as a newcomer to this field of human enjoyment).
Before I posted this subject as a new thread I took the time to do a search on this phrase on site. I did find some threads, interviews, and articles about the bespoke process, but they didn't really answer some of my questions and some of them were fairly old, going back to 2007. Also it appeared to me that most parfumers/parfumeries that do this sort of custom work were/are in Europe (the U.K. in particular). Whereas I am in the States.
Given all of this I decided it would not be repetitious to start a new thread on this subject of personalized, custom perfumes, which seem to go by the name of "bespoke fragrances". (I don't know the derivation of this word "bespoke" and why it is used, I just saw that Ms. Lytttelton used this word for the process used to make her a custom, personalized perfume).
Okay. Now, given what I have learned thus far as a newcomer to the world of fragrances, and in particular here on Basenotes, it seems to me that this bespoke approach might be really neat to try. I was impressed by the process that Ms. Lyttelton went through (and which resulted in her book). The parfumer who did her fragrance spent alot of time getting to know Celia before she even began to put together the "recipe". (It wasn't done while she 'went and had coffee' like happened with one poster on this subject).
My thought is that I can continue to spend time researching various commercially prepared scents, seeking one (or more) with which I resonate, but then there is this alternate approach whereby one just "cuts to the chase" and has their own made for them! It seems so much more interesting. One can learn more about basenote fragrances, essential oils, and the like this way, going from the ground up. And then wind up with something that really "is uniquely you".
If there are any Americans who have had a custom made fragrance designed for them by an American parfumer I'd like to hear about it; especially if done recently. And thereby also get the names of some parfumers who offer this service. Also, it sounds like a really cool cottage business too!
Before I posted this subject as a new thread I took the time to do a search on this phrase on site. I did find some threads, interviews, and articles about the bespoke process, but they didn't really answer some of my questions and some of them were fairly old, going back to 2007. Also it appeared to me that most parfumers/parfumeries that do this sort of custom work were/are in Europe (the U.K. in particular). Whereas I am in the States.
Given all of this I decided it would not be repetitious to start a new thread on this subject of personalized, custom perfumes, which seem to go by the name of "bespoke fragrances". (I don't know the derivation of this word "bespoke" and why it is used, I just saw that Ms. Lytttelton used this word for the process used to make her a custom, personalized perfume).
Okay. Now, given what I have learned thus far as a newcomer to the world of fragrances, and in particular here on Basenotes, it seems to me that this bespoke approach might be really neat to try. I was impressed by the process that Ms. Lyttelton went through (and which resulted in her book). The parfumer who did her fragrance spent alot of time getting to know Celia before she even began to put together the "recipe". (It wasn't done while she 'went and had coffee' like happened with one poster on this subject).
My thought is that I can continue to spend time researching various commercially prepared scents, seeking one (or more) with which I resonate, but then there is this alternate approach whereby one just "cuts to the chase" and has their own made for them! It seems so much more interesting. One can learn more about basenote fragrances, essential oils, and the like this way, going from the ground up. And then wind up with something that really "is uniquely you".
If there are any Americans who have had a custom made fragrance designed for them by an American parfumer I'd like to hear about it; especially if done recently. And thereby also get the names of some parfumers who offer this service. Also, it sounds like a really cool cottage business too!
