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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Laura wrote:

Hi Paul,

Your creations are amazing! I will need time to choose one to buy…:)

Especially Gold Leather is delicious.

Can you tell me more about this perfume?

Is it all natural?

Where did you get inspiration to create it?

Best,

Laura

Thanks for your note, Do you mind if I quote you? 🙂

The Notes for Gold Leather are:

Flowers: Gardenia, Tuberose, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysum, Honeysuckle, Lily, Jasmine, Cananga, and Genet.

Fruit: Satsuma Guava, Red Mandarin, and Bergamot

Woods: Smoke Tree and Amberwood

Also: Leathers, Benzoin, Tonka, Styrax, Fossilized Amber and other Ambers, Musks and CivetHerbal: Tobacco and Clary Sage, Patchouli and Oakmoss

You know, My Perfume Composition ideology goes something like this:

“Use the best materials available to make the best perfumes possible. Naturals for rounding and complexity, and an ease of beauty, and other aromatics for cleanliness, abstraction, specificity, power, longevity, and projection, and access to animalic and endangered materials not easily or ethically used as compared with naturals”.

That’s how I choose and use different materials, I choose them for their strengths, and not their weaknesses.

About Leather Fragrances:

I feel that really good Leather fragrances are a niche waiting to be filled.

So I have built Red Leather, and Gold Leather is almost finished. I am now also working on White Leather and Black leather, and have slated others. The fragrance name is a determinant to the choices made for that color of leather fragrance. And then, Zaffran is also a leather.

I am very disappointed by the vast majority of fragrances calling themselves a Leather Fragrance… So I’m making much better leathers.

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As for inspiration in general, Where does any artist get their inspiration…?

I’ve worked creatively, artistically, all my life. Inspiration comes in many ways, forms, impulses, by cunning and by luck. And in the case of Perfumery, working to make great things that are not already existent or derivative.

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The author

About pkil3r: Paul Kiler, Professional and Freelance Perfumer, lives and works in Menifee, CA, USA. He started to learn to be a Perfumer in 2005, launching his first scents for PK Perfumes in 2011. Paul helped launch Zoologist Perfumes brand with two scents, Rhinoceros and Panda in 2014. Now he works for many brands making their scents, and for his own brands. He really loves scents, makes his own never before made molecules for unique odors, makes some natural extractions rarely used by others, and scours the world for really nice naturals to use in his perfumes. All’s fair in Love, War, and Perfume.

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Letter From Laura