So much of finding your voice as a perfumer is your palette. Where you start tends to decide where you end up.
I've always been drawn to going narrow and deep. Maybe it's growing up in New Zealand without endless options, or years of the same ashtanga sequence every morning. I seem to find more beauty in constraint than in abundance.
What I'm after is the essence of a thing, the truth of it (no matter how cheesy that sounds). For me, that's a small palette of naturals. You can only work with what nature will give you. Last year's rose isn't this year's rose. And because each material is already a hundred things at once, you can only hold a small handful in balance at a time.
But to me, that's the luxury — so few materials, and a whole lifetime in each one.
— Emily
