Andy Tauer - An Interview With Swiss Niche Perfumer

May 31, 2010 - PRLog -- What is your background?

I have an average Swiss background of someone who was born in the mid sixties in Switzerland. Somewhat spoiled due to an exploding economy, raised with love and care, and given a solid education that enabled me to dig into chemistry at university, fooling around with bacteria while getting a PhD and finally traveling to Texas to do more harm to bacteria, just to realize there that I want to deal more with human beings, and ending up in innovation and technology management.

So, you haven’t always been a perfumer…how you developed this passion about creating perfumes?

An interesting point: It suddenly was there and seemed to be right. And I followed the road to the point where I am now. Sometimes I look around me and I am all astonished, because this road brought me to a wonderful place. I always had this creative element in myself, let it out by painting, gardening, making brochures for companies, but when I discovered that I can work with scents and that I can do my own fragrances and that they are eventually nice, then I knew: I have found my place to create.
It is a couple of years now that I started playing with scents, all natural scents at the beginning, synthetics joining in later.

If someone would like to start creating scents, what would be a nice way to be introduced to the world of fragrances?

Allow me to make a recommendation here. Well, actually two.
First, when you start walking this road make sure that you get the book by Mandy Aftel, Essence and Alchemy.
Second, make sure that you start with naturals and get to know them first. It is a tough road as naturals are more difficult to handle and understand, but it is the road that will bring you to beautiful places.

Did you study at those classic institutes of perfumery?

No, and I am glad I did not. The longer the more I think about it: There is nothing you could not learn and teach yourself to create beauty when it comes to scents, provided you have a sense for beauty in yourself...

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