The process is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before and left me feeling like a kid in a candy store. It was thrilling experience to browse through so many ingredients and have the opportunity to design a custom fragrance.

Emma Leah is a rarity among 
perfumers, creating fragrances 
using both ancient and modern 
techniques to create custom 
signature scents for individual 
clients. 
Passionate about the very personal 
and intriguing world of scent, Emma
 has dedicated more than 20 years
 of her life to study the art form,
 pushing the boundaries of scent—
making her one of the most skilled
 perfumers of her kind in the world.

In other words, a man wearing a fresh scent mixing with his own animal scent because…he’s Such a Boy! is so very full of sex appeal. And for a girl, being all tomboy in the country, Such a Boy! is IT. Chypre has been called sensual and abstract, which is also why I think unisex is the vibe here.

…it was one of the most beautiful spaces I’ve been to with not a single detail overlooked. They truly are people for whom scent is a passion and you can see that right down to the art deco inspired bottles and packaging. Simply beautiful.

While we’re all attuned to using the primitive information decoder to assess our environment, we’re too often brushing over the deeper effects of this sense.

"Bespoke" perfume might just be the ultimate indulgence of the senses. Katherine Kizilos inhales. PERFUMER Emma Leah says sometimes, when a person is moved by a fragrance, the first sniff makes them shiver a little. Another tell-tale sign of rapture is to tip your head back, close your eyes and inhale deeply.

The one and only, bespoke artisans, The Age Life and Style

We smelt a range of Emma's personally crafted and natural extracts against some smoky whiskies to see which scents would be removed, altered or enhanced. "It's a practice that is commonly used when designing and analysing fragrances," Emma told me.

Does your mass-produced perfume really reflect the woman inside? Not even close, according to fragrance expert Emma Leah, who'll take you on an inward journey to help you create a custom scent of your very own

Voxfrock was intrigued by Fleurage. A perfumer! we thought. How lovely. But, weren’t perfumers Genoan? Or Parisien? Or extinct? Or, at best, strapped to the labs of mega scent factories operated by global designer brands? Voxfrock’s historic knowledge of the profession was…