Pomare's Stolen Perfume

Pomare's Stolen Perfume is a certified-natural, handmade perfume label created in Venice Beach, California by Rachel Deane Binder, a Court of Master Sommeliers-certified sommelier and wine educator who brought a winemaker's sensory discipline to perfumery. The brand's name honours Queen Pomaré IV, the last sovereign of Tahiti, who exiled herself to Raiatea in protest at French colonial annexation — a figure Rachel's mother described as a distant ancestor, and whose resistance became the brand's founding metaphor for things that cannot be taken. Binder applies winemaker patience to her fragrant compositions, blending genuine botanical aromatics and aging the results. Her perfume Rasa won the Art and Olfaction Aftel Award for handmade perfumery, among the highest honours available to independent natural perfumers. All materials are authentic plant-derived aromatics; the house is a deliberate counterpoint to the synthetic fragrance industry, inviting wearers back to the transformative experience of real plants on skin.