Your lipstick is food grade, you cook with the same oil you moisturize with, but there remains one last bastion of transparency in your beauty routine: the contents of your perfume bottle—until now. Across the globe, the conversation about what goes into your favorite scents is becoming a passionate point of interest, with all-natural blends that are every bit as sophisticated as their synthetic counterparts arriving on shelves in droves.
Take Honoré des Prés, the fragrance line created by world-class French perfumer Olivia Giacobetti (whose résumé includes olfactory hits for major houses like Frédéric Malle, Diptyque, and Hermès). The covetable natural scent collection is comprised of eight complexly layered and subtle blends made even more desirable by their certified all-organic ingredients.
Across the pond, Californians are also bottling their lush surroundings: Strange Invisible Perfumes’s Alexandra Balahoutis decants her hand-blended, wild-crafted and organic perfumes in her Venice studio, while just north in Berkeley, Mandy Aftel has been mastering the art of natural fragrance (and amassing a cult of dedicated celebrity followers) for the past 30 years.
If Juniper Ridge’s Backpacker colognes call to mind a specific time and place, it’s because they are olfactory portraits of the very West Coast location they’re named for. Unique batch numbers for each blend are stamped on the bottle, accounting for variations in formulas based on rainfall, temperature, and season during which the wildflowers, moss, bark, and mushrooms used in each blend were harvested.
From a British perfume company eschewing synthetics to the blend of a former supermodel (Helena Christensen) that is taking essential oils from hippie to haute, above are 10 all-natural and organic fragrances that are as good for you as they smell.
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