Scent of Steppe.

You don’t make scent. It makes you. It lives within you and whispers it's notes to your soul so that it cannot rest, cannot find meaning in anything other than slaving over the excruciating pains of giving birth to it.

Ensar Oud

Wild Tulips is finally growing back, for a long time they were almost disappeared and were listed as endangered species in Red Book. My mom told me about her childhood and how they picked up the tulips for bouquet they never picked red and yellow, those were too ordinary to them…

My never-ending fascination about perfumes started long time ago. Believe it or not even though my own family never used perfumes on themselves (something about them working in the chemistry industry). I had access to a very exquisite choice of perfumes because mom of my childhood friend was a perfume collector. I remember so many fragrances, it just like scents library in my memories!

Just couple of days ago I came across a quote from Ensar Oud, (should I mention that I’m completely in love with this man) which perfectly explains my own feelings about my steps in perfumery. I’m obsessed with magic of scent creation and have very particular idea what I want. All my happy memories need their own perfumes, for me it makes more sense if I finally would have it bottled.

My parents land

Of course, my first happiest scent memory is steppe in spring. I would describe my love to steppe almost like daughter loves her mother. I remember myself wandering around alone, the wide-open space started right behind my aunt’s house, so I could do it since my mom could see where her child is on miles ahead.

Love of steppe is embedded very deep in my Scythian ancestry.

Top of the hill. My parents land .

📷Strong Herbaceous scent of wormwood is always prevailing everything else, but in the spring when every minuscule herb is blooming along with wild tulips and irises, the light floral scent mixed with bitter sweet fragrance of wild thyme…. Oh, it smells like heaven!

I’ve been searching for so many years if someone recreates the scent of steppe and makes perfume out of it… so far, I didn’t find anything. Sometimes I think- wait! It could be it, but then it just turns into something else and I lose my hope bit by bit.

So, now I’m on the edge of creating something that would remind me of my childhood memories.

I started from a list of all known for me wildflowers and herbs. Would be interesting to know if those herbs and flowers exist in essentials oils or fragrance oils.

Here is the list flowers and herbs Im currently consider to include in Steppe perfume :

· Wormwood

· Ivan Chai (Chamérion angustifólium) Drie

· Zveroboy (Hypericum) Hypericum

· Wild Thyme

· Helichrysum

· Wild Tulip

· Wild Iris

· Feather grass

· Yellow sweet clover

· Kermek. Limonium

Gallery with most famous steppe's flowers: