Local artisan, Akosua Nyarko, is reinventing the art of botanical perfume.
Akosua Nyarko is a wife, mother of three, and serial entrepreneur taking the local beauty industry by storm. Her passion for perfume started at a very young age and was ignited when she stumbled across the art of botanical perfume: the craft of capturing the very essence of mother nature to create enchanting scents. Despite the limitations and lack of representation in the black community, the urge to create and fabricate perfumes is how Lavender Clouds & Poetry came to fruition.
Lavender Clouds & Poetry is a black-owned, small-batch, non-toxic fragrance brand specializing in clean botanical scents that are concocted with precious essential oils, absolutes, plant essences and natural aromatic isolates. Each perfume is handcrafted in small batches and aged for three months in a temperature-controlled environment. The aging process allows the elements to meld together harmoniously before finally being bottled in uniquely hand-painted bottles.
Despite the limitations and lack of representation in the black community, the urge to create and fabricate perfumes is how Lavender Clouds & Poetry came to fruition.
The concept for the artisan-painted bottles pays homage to the beautiful, billowy lavender clouds Akosua saw one evening as she watched the sun set. The idea was then born that each perfume bottle would be as unique and abstract as the clouds she gazed at in awe on that warm summer evening.
As an artist and creative at heart, Akosua finds inspiration for her scents through lucid dreams, quirky names, random smells and sometimes even images. When she is hit with a revelation, she confides in her notepad and writes out ramblings of how she feels and what she envisions in that particular moment. As she writes, the notes of the fragrance begin to come alive to the point where she can literally smell the aroma wafting from her notepad.
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