NATURAL INGREDIENT CALCULATOR – A GUIDE THROUGH THE JUNGLE OF PLANT USAGE IN PERFUMERY
“To have a fragrance smell of vetiver you must use a certain amount of it. The problem we have
today is we all use these beautiful [natural] materials, but we use them in a homeopathic dosage
because the money* that is allowed to us to work on a project is just not enough.”
– Harry Fremont, DSM-Firmenich*, Master Perfumer, in Perfumer & Flavorist, 2010
Nathalie Feisthauer has been cheerfully writing her new book of fragrances (not a chapter!) as an independent perfumer, since 2014! You might know her work reaching back to 1986, from the range of Azzaro, Cartier, and Versace while she was working for Givaudan, or drool over her niche fragrance creations as I do over the Putain des Palaces for Etat Libre de Orange (2006) for example, but let’s see what’s Nathalie doing here (in around 30 countries, to be precise), and now.