AUTHOR – EUAN MCCALL

For independent perfumer Euan McCall, fragrances are dreams brought to life through the combination of aromatic materials. His work moves effortlessly between the realms of perfume and art; both provocative and enticing, the scents he creates challenge the notion of fragrance as mere corporeal embellishment, imbuing the experience of adornment with a deeper symbolic meaning. We talk about the relationship between scent and emotion, and the musicality of fragrance, and reveal the more profound understanding of human nature that comes with harnessing the sensory desire of an audience.

Perfumers are, after all, part scientists and part artists: and limiting the perfumer’s olfactory palette, therefore, limits the works that can be produced. It is like telling an artist they can only work with block colours; the painting can still be created, but perhaps not with such extraordinary sensual power as could have been if there were no material limitations. Imagine a Richter composed of only block colours…