Anya`s Garden 100% natural perfumes on Fragrantica

10/05/09 09:16:43

By: Elena Knezevic

The exclusive world of natural perfumery is hidden from masses. Its luxurious creations can't be reproduced in thousands of examples, and every drop gleams with multiple facets only natural oil can provide; it's based on living juice and made by hand and from the heart. Natural perfume is the only way to discover the real Nature beauties, and to find out how Perfume was produced and treasured hundreds - and even thousands - years ago.

Natural perfumer is an artist, chemist, enthusiastic explorer and, for sure, a very interesting person to communicate with. This week, we have a wonderful opportunity to introduce to you Anya McCoy, a natural perfumer and the founder and owner of Anya's Garden. Anya is also the President and Owner of Natural Perfumers Guild. Anya has 7 perfumes in her line; she also creates custom scents, provides consultations and runs her online natural perfumery school (next class perfumery course starts in February 2010).

Anya composes her fragrances of natural oils, essences and tinctures, many of them she makes by herself. Miami (Florida) with its lush vegetation, where Anya's Garden is based, is the right place for the passionate explorer of natural scents. Anya is really imaginative in her work, she doesn't make anything you can call 'ordinary'. She uses such unusual ingredients as goat hair tincture (to create a perfume devoted to the lyrical god, Pan), a tincture of earth (the safest and eternal base!) for her Temple perfume, smoked sea shells for her Fairchild perfume. When using ingredients of animal sources, Anya chooses only cruelty-free essences, such as hyrax.

Recent Anya's Garden releases (from 2009) are Moon Dance and Star Flower.

Star Flower (September) is made in a homage to the flavors and scents of Mexico. The star is tuberose, set in a cream of lemon, almond, maple-flavored seeds, chocolate, vanilla and patchouli.

"Star Flower Perfume and EdP is my homage to tuberose and the stellar fragrance beauties that also come from Mexico, chocolate and vanilla. Their unctuous natures are cheerfully masked - briefly - by a bitter almond and lemon opening. Then the deep, dark, sensual Mexican "perfume mole" unfolds on your skin, silky, smooth, seamless, a symphony of floral and foodie delights."

Anya McCoy

The last edition is a surreal, cool, romantic Moon Dance and today (October 5th) it's available from Anay's Garden site. Today is Anya's birthday!

Moon Dance "is undeniably the most romantic, sensual perfume I have ever created, with a double dose of ambergris because I just *had* to do it! It was an impetuous gesture, like the type you make when you're in love and led me to doubel the ambergris when I was blending".
Anya McCoy

During the entire month (October) samples of seven Anya's perfumes will be sold as a set for $35, or $5 per perfume. Additionally, any full bottles or botanicals from the perfumery are 10% off. Just use the code moondance when entering your order.

Anya's Garden will give away a pure perfume (3,5ml) to three Fragrantica readers. Every winner will get a perfume of their choice from the Collection:

Fairchild Kaffir MoonDance Pan RiverCali StarFlower Temple