Finding a gift for your mom, grandmother, aunt, sister and/or significant other is often pretty difficult. After all, you want to give them something meaningful as well as something that they would like and/or use.
Here’s a book that just about every woman (and some men) should read!
Sue Phillips is a friend of mine. I trust her to give me the real scoop on so many fragrances. Not only is she an expert, but she’s also exceptionally creative and designs amazing fragrances just for you!
The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It!
(Central Park South Publishing Company; $19.95)
The Creator of Tiffany’s First Perfume Reveals Secrets Behind the Scents in her book!
For more than 40 years, Sue Phillips, one of the world’s most renowned fragrance experts, has created fragrances for brands, celebrities, and connoisseurs at her ultra-chic and discreet “SUE PHILLIPS FRAGRANCE” perfume boutique on New York’s tony Upper East Side.
Sue Phillips
A once-in-a-lifetime experience, Phillips takes her clients on a journey of scents, sharing secrets, histories and the effect of the rarest of ingredients she has collected throughout her storied career. Their bespoke perfume formula is recorded in her database and can be reordered at any future time.
Now, “The Nose that Knows” finally relates her relationship to fragrances. Years in the making, Phillips’ long-awaited and much-anticipated book The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it, and Enjoy It!
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble both carry this book.
The 280-page book premiered in bookstores worldwide, and Amazon is filled with highlights from Phillips’ career, myths about perfume, and little-known facts about the intoxicating effect of fragrance on all your senses. The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! also includes photos of celebrities Phillips has worked with throughout her career. She has created fragrances for thousands of Fragrance Lovers, and for the Hollywood elite, from Katie Holmes to Jamie Foxx and Zendaya, and the late Cicely Tyson. There’s plenty more in Phillips’s book, but to reveal it would ruin the surprise.
“It’s an homage to perfumes, fragrance, and scents (which ever you want to call it) and how it really helps people gain confidence, reflect their individuality and create a signature,” says Phillips. “I always ask my clients, ‘Why wear what everyone else wears when you can create your own?’”
Phillips, a native of South Africa, has lived in New York for years. An internationally recognized expert on fragrance, she has worked in senior-level positions at many of the beauty industry’s top companies, including Elizabeth Arden (working on licensees Chloe and Lagerfeld), Lancaster on the Davidoff brands and Chopard, Trish McEvoy, and developed her first 3 fragrances; Lancôme Paris and Burberry where she created scents for its “Society by Burberry” brand.
It was at Tiffany & Co., though, that Phillips achieved her renown: creating first-ever scent, TIFFANY, which became one of the company’s top sellers. She followed that up with Tiffany for Men. Phillips ventured out on her own in 2009, creating a signature atelier in New York called “The Scentarium”. Last year, when the building was sold she created a pop-up “scent experience” at Vanessa Noel Shoes on the Upper East Side.
“My mission,” she says, “is to diffuse fragrance out of the bottle and to create memorable fragrance ‘experiences.’”
Phillips traces her love of fragrance back to her childhood. Her mother, Grace Phillips, was a musician and South Africa’s foremost calligrapher and made sure to surround the family with art and culture. She was inspired by her mother’s singing and performing, and observed her mother’s exquisite artwork, Phillips says.
“Art, Music and Culture were inculcated in me and serendipitously it was part of my DNA which I never fully realized.”
Until one day, when an unexpected curiosity struck.
“I started to think about colors and sounds and what they would smell like,” she says. “In South Africa there’s beautiful bright sunshine and gorgeous light and natural foliage and flowers and I would correlate fragrance and color and think about what could that smell like.”
She was on to something. Scent, as scientists have long known, is the most powerful of the five senses — and the only one that connects memory, emotion, and taste.
“Our sense of smell is our most powerful sense after sight,” Phillips explains, “but it is the most forgotten and ignored. Our olfactory hub in our limbic system triggers memories and emotions. People also tell me that when they are cleaning out an attic, and they come across a memento from a loved one, such as a scarf or a book, that they are immediately reminded of that person or situation. It is so powerful!” “
This book is a handbook as well as a memoir for you to think about what you look for in a personal fragrance. This book would be good for men too but I wouldn’t count on most men reading it. The men that would read this are already those who love fragrances. Women all over should get a copy of this (and it makes a great Mother’s Day, birthday, or anniversary gift).
You can get more information on Sue Phillips on her website: https://suephillips.com/
Follow Sue Phillips on these social media channels:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScenterprisesLTD/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scentfullysue/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scentfullysue?re
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SuePhillipsFRAGRANCE/featured
Stevie Wilson
LA-Story.com
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