Me, my mother and making scents of Myanmar

There are brands that emerge like unicorns from business plans hastily concocted on the backs of envelopes, and there are those that take a little bit longer. It’s been nine years since I first Skyped esteemed perfumer Frank Voelkl and persuaded him to create a fragrance for the new brand I wanted to launch, inspired by Myanmar and my mother’s history. 

German-born, New York-based Voelkl is the perfumer behind such scents as Le Labo’s phenomenally successful Santal 33. He has become…