Synesthesia Scent Co. celebrates the weird, strange, the subversive, scandalous women throughout history, fads, fetishes, bygone eras, literature, art, film, music, and the oddity and majesty of nature itself through luxury scents.
I started out as a fine art photographer, but after falling out of love with photography for many years, I needed a new creative challenge, and fell into perfume quite accidentally. It seemed a natural progression from photography to perfume. As a photographer, I was always inspired by images of shelves upon shelves of old amber apothecary jars full of essences, antique botanical drawings, dark and moody perfume lay flats, and pictures of perfume bottles so ornate they we works of art in themselves (my Pinterest is littered with them).
The first perfume I ever made smelled of rubber (not the cool rubber of tires on asphalt like Bulgari Black) but rubber like when you walk into the athletic sneaker section of a shoe store. I think the overdoes of myrrh and citrus led to disaster. As I learn and grow, my goal is to make a perfume so good, its heartbreaking, and leaves the wearer weak in the knees and swooning, as all great love affairs should (I'm not greedy, just one perfume and I'd be satisfied). All the scents in each collection are made to be interesting while staying true to the concept that inspired them. As with my photography work, each scent created is heavily conceptually based. And I love the idea that using essential oils and other naturals that will vary the scent slightly, so absolute uniformity is not something you will find here. After all, it's the flaws that make something beautiful and give character.
If you have any questions about the scents in each collection, ingredients, or need guidance on where to start based on specific scent preferences, feel free to contact me and I will assist you the best way I can. Or if you have recommendations of books, art, film, or music that might make a good perfume, reach out. I love getting recommendations that lead to the discovery of new and beautiful things (even though my to-be-read book list is already 5.5 miles long, I'd be happy to get more recommendations)! Or if you just want to talk about perfume, I could talk about perfume all the live long!
I started out as a fine art photographer, but after falling out of love with photography for many years, I needed a new creative challenge, and fell into perfume quite accidentally. It seemed a natural progression from photography to perfume. As a photographer, I was always inspired by images of shelves upon shelves of old amber apothecary jars full of essences, antique botanical drawings, dark and moody perfume lay flats, and pictures of perfume bottles so ornate they we works of art in themselves (my Pinterest is littered with them).
The first perfume I ever made smelled of rubber (not the cool rubber of tires on asphalt like Bulgari Black) but rubber like when you walk into the athletic sneaker section of a shoe store. I think the overdoes of myrrh and citrus led to disaster. As I learn and grow, my goal is to make a perfume so good, its heartbreaking, and leaves the wearer weak in the knees and swooning, as all great love affairs should (I'm not greedy, just one perfume and I'd be satisfied). All the scents in each collection are made to be interesting while staying true to the concept that inspired them. As with my photography work, each scent created is heavily conceptually based. And I love the idea that using essential oils and other naturals that will vary the scent slightly, so absolute uniformity is not something you will find here. After all, it's the flaws that make something beautiful and give character.
If you have any questions about the scents in each collection, ingredients, or need guidance on where to start based on specific scent preferences, feel free to contact me and I will assist you the best way I can. Or if you have recommendations of books, art, film, or music that might make a good perfume, reach out. I love getting recommendations that lead to the discovery of new and beautiful things (even though my to-be-read book list is already 5.5 miles long, I'd be happy to get more recommendations)! Or if you just want to talk about perfume, I could talk about perfume all the live long!