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The Making of Songbird
About 23 years ago I was making a custom perfume for a friend and I had her smelling scent strips of my many aromatic treasures. I had a pile of the ones she loved and another pile of the ones she didn’t love. After making my notes on the ones she loved, I picked up the pile that were not her favorites and sniffed them just as an afterthought. I loved it! Instead of working on her custom perfume, I was much more compelled to start playing with the rejected pile. I worked on it for a few months and was delighted to come up with Songbird! It was spring and the songbirds were singing wildly outside the Purrfumery window, and I was listening to a lot of Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Dolly Parton on my CD player. It has rare boronia, antique Ceylon cinnamon, nutmeg, orange blossom, frankincense, sandalwood and many other essential oils and absolutes. When I’d finished mixing Songbird, I actually presented my friend with this perfume and she went crazy over it! She’s gone through several ounces of it by now and we still laugh about it. I still haven’t made her other perfume!
I like the idea of making something beautiful out of rejection, or so called ‘failure’. I value trusting my intuition and knowing that nothing gets thrown away (metaphorically), because it’s all part of the delicious process. After a long time exploring, studying, and learning about perfume making, it was actually mixing Songbird that made me feel like I was truly tapping into the process in my own unique way for the first time. It was a big moment for me! Creating this perfume gave me the confidence to really resonate with the title of “perfumer” for the very first time, and It marked a turning point in my sense of myself, and my relationship to my craft, that has carried me forward for many years. I turn to Songbird now when I want to tap back into that place of newfound confidence and a sense of self assuredness. If I’m feeling nervous to speak publicly or work an event, I turn to Songbird to ground me back into my knowledge of my own self-worth, and my trust in the process.
I hope all of this makes sense to you! I probably wear Songbird the most of any of my perfumes, I love it’s juicyness and it always lifts my spirits. It’s gone on to be one of my best sellers too. I hope it can lift your spirits, and your sense of self, too!
