:: Glissande Perfumes :: Michelle Luddy, artist, musician, and perfumer, blends fragrances using only natural essences, absolutes and attars. She also distilles aromatic plants from the mountain region where she lives. Glissande is the natural perfume label of her parent company Mountain Lavender. In 1991, she moved out of the city, and up to a high mountain log cabin. The light through the woods, the misty days when the clouds envelop, the warm evening when the eastern mountains glow pink, the bird-song, the coyotes, the smell of the musky, dusky woods in autumn — all these elements are her inspiration. In 2000 she got a house at the edge of a small town to expand her business in herbals and aromatics, and developed the concept of Mountain Lavender and Glissande. Visit Glissande.com to learn more about this pioneering natural perfumer.
:: Anyas Garden of Natural Perfume :: Launching early 2006:: Trained as a landscape architect and ethnobotanist, Anya has designed many high-end residential and commercial gardens that are filled with luscious fragrant plants. In the 1990's she sold her natural perfumes on South Beach to the hip, artistic tourists and locals. After creating the juice for several private lines, and bespoke perfumes for selected clients, she is now launching her own line of natural botanical perfumes. She harvests aromatic flowers, leaves and roots from her private garden and tinctures or infuses them to create unique, rich bases for her perfumes. Beauty and sensuality and surrendering to the intoxicating powers of the fragrances is always the ultimate goal for each of her creations. Visit anyasgarden.com
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