After My Own Heart encapsulates everything springtime and lilacs are to me: new fresh innocence, first love, endless possibilities and growing in a new direction after a cold and dark time. Thank you, Ineke Ruhland!!
Ms. Rose gave us an exclusive inside view of what it is to create a “fragrance on paper”:
“My newest novel is about many things: Victor Hugo and the secret séances he attended, Druid ruins, grief, ghosts, reincarnation and the lengths we go to for love.-M.J.Rose, author of Seduction, A Novel of Suspense and The Book of Lost Fragrances
Zelda Fitzgerald was a complicated woman, so creating a fragrance that captured her essence posed many creative challenges
Figure 1: Noir captures the feeling of olfactory black and darkest night. As your eyes grow accustomed to the shadows of your surroundings you can perceive shape and form
Artistic breakthroughs can come from pushing one’s own envelope, and I think Ellen Covey has done an admirable job of creating fragrances based around a note she found difficult-Seattle Chocolate and California Chocolate.
