Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes
Seattle indie perfumery, perfumer-composed.
Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes was established in Seattle in 2010 by Ellen Covey, a University of Washington neuroscientist who had earlier opened Olympic Orchids in 2006 as a specialist orchid nursery. The perfume project grew directly out of her botanical work and her interest in how the brain processes scent, and Covey continues to compose and hand-bottle every fragrance herself. The line works across a wide stylistic range, including indolic florals, leather-rich orientals and inventive animalic compositions, often using pure essential oils, absolutes and high-grade aromachemicals. Covey won the 2015 Art and Olfaction Award in the Artisan category for Woodcut and a 2016 collaboration with Canadian house Zoologist on Bat took the Independent prize the following year. The brand sits firmly in the American indie tradition: small batch, perfumer-led, modestly priced for the quality of the materials, and aimed at collectors who value individual creative voices.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
