Get to Know Nancy Meiland – founder & perfumer of her personal (sensible!) British home
Nancy Meiland is sensible British perfumer, now along with her personal beautiful boutique in Brighton; however let’s get to know her (and her scents), beginning with the place all of it started…
Primarily based in East Sussex, Nancy divides her time between city and nation, explaining that ‘the artistic technique of gathering sensory impressions and honing them right into a components is a crucial one. As soon as a clean canvas, the components sheet acts as a metaphor – and step by step emerges primarily as a form of poem, with physique, gentle and shade and a lifetime of its personal.’ (It amuses Nancy, wanting again, that she typically had essays returned to her emblazoned with ‘too flowery’ as a criticism. ‘It figures!,’ she says.)
Starting her profession as an apprentice to one of many UK’s specialists in customized perfumery, in London, creating signature scents for these coveting ‘one thing extremely particular person and particular…’ earlier than launching Nancy Meiland Parfums, her decade-long journey by way of perfume additionally noticed Nancy co-run the previous College of Perfumery, act as a marketing consultant for impartial fragrance homes, work on collaborations with Miller Harris, and converse with regards to perfume at occasions nationwide.
Now along with her personal artisanal line, she has the knack of conjuring emotional responses with lyrical fragrances which are contemplative but so effortlessly subtle, based mostly on scent recollections of her personal, however inviting the wearer to go on their very own aromatic journey with each spritz.
Writing about Nancy Meiland for The Fragrance Society, magnificence author (and proud Londoner) Viola Levy as soon as admitted that ‘…Nancy Meiland’s fragrances – an ode to the fantastic thing about nature – would make even essentially the most hard-nosed metropolis woman like yours really need to kick off her Louboutins and go skipping and spinning by way of a meadow Julie Andrews-style. (I really feel equally in the direction of different UK perfumers impressed by inexperienced areas, there’s simply one thing concerning the earthy, rain-sodden British countryside that lends itself moderately properly to fragrance…)
You all the time have a picture of somebody in your head earlier than you meet them. To be trustworthy, I used to be anticipating Nancy to be a softly-spoken, Brönte-reading nation woman (albeit a glamorous one, à la Savannah Miller), pausing our dialog to whimsically gaze into the gap each every so often. A far cry from the chatty, effervescent blonde sat reverse me – and all the higher for it. I’m stunned to search out out that Nancy is a metropolis woman herself – a fellow North-Londoner no much less – whose fond recollections of visiting her grandparents as a baby impressed her olfactory journey.’
You’ll be able to watch a captivating in-depth Q + A with our co-founder Jo Fairley interviewing Nancy Meiland on the video beneath…
And naturally you’ll be able to examine every of the fragrances (and her inspirations for them) plus the complete story of the how the home started, on our web page devoted to Nancy Meiland Parfums.
So-knowledgeable, all the time participating, we’re thrilled Nancy now has the scented area to expertise the perfumes in particular person – properly value a go to to the seaside to go by yourself mini sniffari to hunt them out!
Nancy Meiland Parfums, 2 Nile Road, Brighton, BH1 1HW
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 4pm (Saturdays 11am – 5pm)
Written by Suzy Nightingale