Or you may be like most Americans and run out and buy cheap Chinese goods at Walmart...but just in case you are looking to keep the money here I have come up with a list of American perfumers to satisfy both your need for great niche scents and your desire to keep the dollars at home.
The youngest perfumer on the list is Serena Ava Franco of San Diego, California. She is a talented and enterprising young woman who creates beautiful contemporary jewelry as well as a stunning line of fragrances. The scents range from classic florals, to incenses and ambers and woods. She markets the fragrances, both extraits and eau de parfums, under the name Ava-Luxe. Just go to http://www.ava-luxe.com/ and see for yourself. Oh, one little thing, Ms. Franco is in the process of updating her site and you may be redirected to her Etsy site (which is a great source for artisan works, btw). I can't get enough of her gourmand scents. People follow me around sniffing the air when I wear these.
Next we have the spectacular Cristopher Brosius, who has created some of the most unusual and realistic perfumes you will find anywhere. Yes, you can get Tea Rose, Narcissus or The Fir Tree, but you can also get compositions like In the Library (yes it smells like a library), In The Summer Kitchen (garden melange of herbs and vegetables and farmy wooden rafters), or Gathering Apples ( you'll feel like you're in the autumn orchard). Check the site: http://www.cbihateperfume.com/ . My next purchase will be his I Am A Dandelion, for when the maximalist feels like being a nature girl. CB I Hate Perfume is located in Brooklyn!
Michael Storer of http://www.michaelstorer.com/ is a creater of grand traditional perfumes. I have sampled these (Mr. Storer sells samples as well as bottles) and have been blown away by the "sister" scents: Genvieve, Yvette, and Stephanie. Stephanie, my favorite of the line, is the most exquisitely conceived gardenia scent available, sumptuous, and very natural. You will feel yourself transported to a garden of white gardenias that is always at the height of its beauty. Stephanie, like all of Mr. Storer's line, is devoid of the plasticky, artificial feel that plagues so many white floral scents. You will love them, your girlfriend will love them, your mother will be impressed and start raving about how these take her back to a time when scents were opulent and sexy, not light and sporty. Maybe it's the Los Angeles location that inspired Mr. Storer to create a line of perfumes that the Hollywood of Ava Gardner and Gene Tierney would have loved.
Keiko Mecheri (http://www.keikomecheri.com/) of Beverly Hills started with a handful of scents and has blossomed into a line of over twenty scents that range from orientals like Loukhoum, to soliflores like Damascena ( a rose, of course), to lighter fare such as her Eaux Tendres and Eau Fraiches. Ms Mecheri's work is available at Barney's and Neiman Marcus and you can find it on the web at http://www.luckyscent.com/. In the summer, I often live in her splendid soliflore Jasmine, which blooms beautifully in the warm evenings.
Other American made fragrance lines include Yosh Han, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Elizabeth Arden, Donna Karan, Estee Lauder, and well open your eyes and look at the bottles!
Feel free to add American fragrant suggestions in the comments section.
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