Neil Morris

Neil Morris is a self-taught American perfumer who has worked in the fragrance trade since the 1960s and runs his studio out of 221 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. The work splits into two lines: a Signature Collection of around eight scents available through retailers and the studio, and the much larger Vault — over forty fragrances sold only through his website and direct from the workshop, often in tiny runs. Morris's calling card is his bespoke practice, in which clients describe a memory or place and he composes a fragrance to match. The aesthetic is unhurried and personal rather than commercially sleek, with a fondness for resins, naturals, vintage-feeling chypres and more contemporary woody florals. It is the antithesis of department-store perfumery: a small American studio brand whose appeal is largely word-of-mouth among collectors who value access to the perfumer himself.