Yes, Julie Elliot started blending at the ripe old age of 4. She once even tried to seduce a garden lizard with a potion. It didn’t work. Julie’s favorite artist is Cy Twombly!
I first discovered Julie Elliot of i In Fiore in 2007, and her amazing line of natural solid fragrances, while suffering through yet another “Confiscation of Liquids” check in at the airport. Her minimalist approach to blending lends well to solids, which sit up on the skin longer so you experience the unfolding of the fragrance
Charna createa fragrances that she finds interesting and appealing. “This is one of the things I love about running my own business. I have the freedom to do what I want. I need not create what the market dictates. I create what I dictate.”
After working for Lauder and Aveda for years, I became determined to create my own line of natural perfumes. I poured myself into learning everything I possibly could about natural perfumery and after years of study, research, and experimentation was accepted as a member to the Natural Perfumers Guild and Providence Perfume Company launched.
Everyone wondered what a nice Jewish girl was doing hauling a sears toolbox filled with oils all over Southern California saying “may I anoint you”.My mother always said there was the paved path, and the one you needed a machete to carve out – and I was always a machete type of girl.
My greatest love in American perfumery is certainly the spirit that is so quintessentially “American” – to discover, to try what has not been done before, to dance to the beat of your own drum and create a business around that beat.Sarah is offering TWO prizes- one is any of her “Perfect” fragrances and one is an ounce of your very own CUSTOM BLEND perfume!
