
Anya`s Garden 100% natural perfumes on Fragrantica
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.
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

Which Anya's perfume would you like to try:
Images: Anya's Garden, byrne7214
Anya's Garden perfumes and home fragrances contest winners are:
NebraskaLovesScent for the review of Fendi Theorema by Fendi
arance for the review of Fougere Bengale by Parfum d`Empire
soulflwr for the review of Kenzo Unidentified Fragrance Object by Kenzo
Congratulations to lucky winners!
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Article comments:
add commentThanks again, Anya and Fragrantica!
For example Star Flower (another my fav) has a very bright opening with cherry and almond, but after a few minutes they are gone almost completely, replaced with living tuberose. Absolutely new for me ;o)))
And of course I like Pan, so uneasy and challenging, and cozy like a goat hair ;o)))
I forgot Moon Dance, it's surreal, like a fairy Moon dust, intoxicating, very unusual. I can admire it following its every layer and note, but the best is Temple ;o))

Enjoy!
Anya
It was a tough choice, but I chose Moon Dance because it seemed to be Anya's personal fav. I'll make sure to come back and post. :o)
Happy Belated Anya!

It was hard to pick just one scent. They all sound so beautiful! I can't wait to try StarFlower and share my thoughts with everyone.
Congrats to Arance and souflwr, too!

let's hear about your pick and
a review after you recieve it :)

I already heard from NebraskaLovesScent and it turns out she was on my yahoo natural perfumery group a few years ago ;-)
She chose StarFlower to help her get through those cold Nebraska nights but I hope she heeds Chaya's tip about sprightly and turning carnal, lol. It definitely is a winter/party scent!
Anya
Star Flower starts out in a sprightly tone, then morphs into carnality !

Happy birthday Anya and welcome to Fragrantica!!!





Happy to see you here, and hope others get to appreciate your work...


natural fragrances unfold so differently on the skin, like the dance of the seven veils and are quite complex. It is erroneous to think natural perfumery is aromatherpay

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