About the Designer

My name is Fiona. I enjoy music, visual arts, exotic foods, tea and video games. Most of all, I love to travel. Having roamed over forty cities in sixteen countries, I am enchanted by the beauty and fury of nature, as much as I am seduced by quaint old cities and haunting ruins. I hope to move overseas one day, but for now I live in Sydney (Australia) where I work as a synthetic research chemist by day, and an artist by night. I enjoy creating for myself, but find as much satisfaction seeing others indulge in my work.
 

About My Natural Perfumes

My natural perfumes are concocted using precious extracts from flowers, fruits, spices, leaves, heart woods, plant resins, honey and beeswax. Throughout history, natural essences have been expensive and laborious to obtain. My collection of essences is worth more than its weight in silver, with about 20% of essences worth their weight in gold. It is no surprise, then, that natural extracts are seldom used in profit-driven mainstream perfumery, especially now that inexpensive synthetic alternatives are made available by modern chemistry. Natural perfumes remain rare, but are still available through small independent perfumers dotted around the globe.

As a chemist I am all too familiar with the natural vs synthetic perfumery debate. Both approaches have their own pros and cons in several aspects, including fragrance quality, health concerns, and impact on the environment. At the moment, science can only approximate natural fragrances, not recreate them. The subtle nuances, depth and complexity of natural essences remain exclusive to their natural sources. In an effort to create perfumes of uncompromising quality, I have chosen to work with a palette of all-natural essences.
 

About My Jewellery

In an era of clutter, mass-produced plastic and post-consumer waste, we as consumers are ploughing through poor quality disposable fashion at an unprecedented rate to keep up with fast-moving trends. Clever marketing and deceptively low prices persuade us into purchasing flimsy goods that are difficult to cherish. These unwanted goods ultimately end up choking our landfills and needlessly damaging our environment.

I hope to provide my customers with accessories that they will truly love and cherish for years to come. I focus on quality materials, incorporating sterling silver, gold fill, freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals and Czech glass into designs inspired by nature and old world sensibilities. Vintage items I find at local markets, op shops and estate sales are refurbished into one-of-a-kind pieces, as a way of indulging my weakness for all things vintage, and at the same time contributing to the local community and reducing waste.