Ananda

GATHER perfume is a small artisan line of pure, authentic botanical creations by perfumer and herbalist Ananda Wilson. Each item is carefully crafted completely by hand with a deep investment of creativity, inspiration, love, time, and over 20 years of skill and practice.

Every product is all natural, utilizing synergies of wildcrafted botanicals, handmade extracts and preparations, carefully sourced pure essential oils, absolutes, attars, and exquisite rare aromatics. Many hours of inspiration and critical thinking is given to each creation.

I am continually inspired by nature, trees, water, art, rhythms, dance, music, myth, and life phases.

Working with plant aromatics is my devotion and specialty; with a knack and nose for blending unique and highly praised, sacred, therapeutic perfume blends - both perfectly simple and evocative ones as well as deeply complex, sophisticated, and rich compositions. They are designed to elicit pleasure medicine, amplify intentions, catalyze sensory bliss, self care ritual, emotional support and seduction, and to ignite your imagination with a powerful terrain of scent imagery and narrative.

Natural perfumes' sillage and story (lasting time and ambient impression) varies widely depending on the blend. It may be strong, soft, last long or short, change over time, and respond to your body temperature and hormonal cycle. It is incredibly alive and responsive to each individual. Know that when you purchase a natural perfume, it is an intimate engagement in the wild natural world and will not offer the predictable, cloying, or forceful type of experience that commercial perfumes often do.

ART THROUGH OLFACTION

Gather fragrances are fully realized botanical perfume compositions with complex layers of aromatics. Each one tells a distinct olfactory story, unfolds and evolves from the first impression opening notes, warming to reveal the heart of the perfume, and lastly blooming into the harmony of the base notes and lingering drydown. The perfume simples are essence + tincture blends selected carefully for their synergistic result.

Gather perfumes are skillfully crafted to evoke an emotional and imaginative response, a luxurious sensory experience, and a strong memory imprint for the wearer .. the same principals of art apply to perfumery, just as you would hope to be moved by an elegant song, a stunning dance, or compelling painting, the narrative of a good fragrance should take you on a journey and stir you in some inexplicable way.