Amaal Sadien — perfumer — 14 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
Start with the vials
TRAINED Two years in Grasse under a working nose, then six at a flavour house in Isando making other people’s brands smell like themselves. WORKS FROM A converted garage off Sir Lowry Road in Woodstock. One bench, a fridge of absolutes and three hundred and forty bottles on the wall. BLENDS IN RUNS OF Ninety at a time. Macerated six weeks, chilled, filtered, then rested another two before anything goes into glass.
The studio is open Thursday to Saturday, ten to four, and by appointment the rest of the week. Come and smell them on skin — a strip of blotter tells you almost nothing.