Our fathers and our father’s fathers; there is a generational thread of scent that connects us to them as surely as their DNA. As dashing as William Powell, as handsome as Jack Kennedy, they were ‘men’s men” who knew how to craft gold, plant a garden, scare off a rattlesnake and grill a steak.
We thank Georg Wuchsa, the Owner and founder of Aus Liebe zum Duft and the fragrance website Aus Liebe zum Duft, aka First-in-Fragrance. Aus Liebe zum Duft No. 1’s release coincided with the 10th anniversary of their business and was created by nose Marc vom Ende and was first his personal scent: “I always wore it whenever I was in the mood to make a strong impression or to attract attention and it never failed to have the desired effect and always conveyed a certain special presence." Translated from German Aus Liebe zum Duft means “For the love of fragrance”, a perfect scent to honor today’s contributors' love of their fathers
My father always wore Aramis and as a child I used to spend time after school in our goldsmiths where the air was filled with the typical workshop smell of wood shavings and the tangy-metallic dust from copper, silver and gold.
But, whenever my father walked past, the air became softened by the warm, woody aroma of his favorite fragrance Aramis. –Georg Wuchsa, Owner and founder of Aus Liebe Zum Duft
Ilustration: Courtesy of Libby Patterson
Tribute to My Father and Grandfather
I remember my father as the kind, gentle but powerful man who ruled his world with generosity. His father too, was amazing. Both these men influenced me to be a self made woman entrepreneur who follows my own dreams. Above my perfume organ is the oil painting that hung above my grandfather’s desk in my father’s library. It's a fish…..a mackerel with teeth; I always looked at that fish when my father was having a serious conversation with me in the library. He always planted a garden of beautiful flowers around our patio, and bbq'd filet mignons regularly. These are the scents I remember the most wafting into my windows….that and the leather in his library on his antique wingback chairs.
Men that grill really do something for that heart space memory for me still.– Libby Patterson, The Perfume Doctor & Quantum Alchemist
Francis Thurston Sanders (aka Bill, my grandfather)
Some weekends, while I walk my dog, the eggy aroma of waffles, the hot savor of bacon, and the fragrance of coffee pierce the cool morning. I think straightaway of my grandfather. Handsome as William Powell, brave (when as a girl I asked him what he would do if a rattlesnake were after him, he said he'd stick its tail in its mouth and it would eat itself), and a world class builder of paper airplanes, he was also long and deep in love. Grandma told me never in her 50-plus years of marriage did she have to make breakfast. He let her sleep in, every morning – Angela Sanders, Blogger, Contributor to Now Smell This, http://nstperfumes.com
My Dad was a proud man who served in the USN and then as a Police Officer. Always smelled very handsome, Devin by the design house Aramis debuted in 1978 and to this day remains his favorite scent. Devin always reminds me of new leather – Katie Mahanes, Jewelry Designer and owner of http://katiemdesigns.com
Photo: Three Generations of Sheehans
Jack Sheehan is old school Irish and rogue man’s man a la Jack Kennedy style. Sophisticated, intelligent and quite charming he was also an enigma associated with the distinctive scent of NO scent. There were no lingering taglines associated with commercial scents to interrupt my imagination while evoking his scent memories.
The earthy cathedral like smell of the pine-paneled room where he said his rosary every night was warm and woody. The ritual burning of red and yellow maple leaves on the street in autumn was green and smoky and the sheared whiskers left on his electric razor carried the dry smell of motor and hair oil. The essence was in the action not the application, a la Jack Sheehan style. – Janna Sheehan, Perfumer, Creator and Founder of Trance Essences
– Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief