I've been fascinated by perfume for as long as I can remember. Growing up, my mother's perfume bottles shimmered like jewels on her vanity. She wore exquisite fragrances, and perfume was  always the last step in her beauty ritual. After she wore perfume, I would notice a subtle transformation in how she carried herself.

As I began wearing perfume myself, I came to understand its power in my own way. Over the years, as I moved between Vancouver, New York, Central America and Berlin, the fragrances I wore became intertwined with different chapters of my life, sometimes seeming to anticipate changes before I did.

At home, paying close attention to ingredients and talking about ingredients was part of everyday life. I had always wanted to make perfume, and discovering natural perfumery brought those two worlds together.

I choose the materials I work with for the beauty and character they bring to a composition. My fragrances generally start with a feeling that comes from an experience, an observation, or an idea about someone. Creating a scent generally takes me about two years, and I go through hundreds of iterations before I know its done. I love to blast music as I compose a fragrance.

Working closely with these raw materials has convinced me that flowers impart their beauty on to us. When you wear Gaetana, my hope is that you feel that beauty, too.

xo Camelia

At Gaetana, we look far and wide for the finest, most beautiful natural ingredients. Our commitment to sustainability means that we also ensure that our ingredients are harvested through responsible farming methods. If a plant is endangered, we will not use it; we will not use the synthetic alternative, either. Each perfume is hand-blended in organic sugarcane alcohol bottled in-house at our studio at the foot of the North Shore mountains in British Columbia. We hope you love your perfume, and we can't wait to hear from you.