Marie Aoun is the founder of local organic perfume company Saint d’ici

“Talking perfume” sounds like a contradiction in terms. Perfume is for smelling! But Marie’s enchanting stories enhance her perfume. There are stories of origins: Aoun is a Lebanese name, and the orange blossom she uses is collected from orchards on the slopes of Lebanese hills. There are stories of the meaning of perfume:

“Our response to scent is primarily emotional: it resides in an ancient part of our brains– the amygdala and hippocampus. We seek the scent of flowers, fruit, roots, trees, resin and animals to complete us,” Marie says in an interview with Sowetan Live