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How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! with Fragrance Expert Sue Phillips By Adam Kluger
ue Phillips, one of the world’s most renowned fragrance experts, has created fragrances for brands, celebrities, and connoisseurs at her ultra-chic and discreet House of Fragrance Atelier in New York. For a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Sue takes her clients on a journey of scents, sharing secrets, histories, and the effect of the rarest of ingredients she has collected throughout her storied career. Their bespoke perfume formula is recorded in the database and can be reordered at any future time. Now, “The Nose that Knows” finally relates her relationship with fragrances. Sue’s long-awaited and much-anticipated book The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! (Central Park South Publishing Company; $19.95) is finally here. http:// www.thepowerofperfume.com The 240 page book, available in bookstores worldwide and on Amazon, is filled with highlights from Sue’s career, myths about perfume, and little-known facts about the intoxicating effect of fragrance on all of your senses. The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! also includes photos of celebrities Sue has worked with throughout her career: Hollywood elite, from Katie Holmes to Jamie Foxx and Zendaya, 38
and the late Cicely Tyson. There’s plenty more in Sue’s book, but to reveal it would ruin the surprise. It’s an homage to perfumes, fragrances, and scents (whichever you want to call them) and how they help people gain confidence, reflect their individuality, and create a signature. ‘Why wear what everyone else wears when you can create your own?’ Sue Phillips, a native of South Africa, is a resident of New York. An internationally recognized expert on fragrance, she has worked in senior-level positions at many of the beauty industry’s top companies, including Elizabeth Arden (working on licensees Chloe and Lagerfeld), Lancaster on the Davidoff brands and Chopard, Trish McEvoy (developed her first 3 fragrances); Lancôme Paris (Magie Noire) and Burberry, where she created scents for its “Society by Burberry” brand. It was at Tiffany & Co., that Phillips achieved her renown: creating its first-ever perfume TIFFANY, which became one of the company’s top sellers. She followed that up with Tiffany for Men. Global luxury beauty companies, Elizabeth Arden and Lancȏme hired Sue Phillips for her marketing expertise, followed by Tiffany & Co. who recruited Sue as VP Marketing Fragrance, where she spearheaded the development, creation, and
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launch of the successful TIFFANY perfume for their 150th Anniversary internationally. From Tiffany, Sue established her company Scenterprises Inc. and designed and launched fragrances for Society by Burberry, Burberry for Men, Diane von Furstenburg, and many other well-known brands. Throughout her career, Sue’s passion, ability, and ingenuity have resulted in her being at the forefront of innovation and always delivering quality products and experiences to her clients. “My mission,” she says, “is to lift fragrance out of the bottle and to create memorable fragrance experiences”. Sue, you became a brand ambassador and influencer for Tiffany and other major brands. Why did you leave Tiffany? When I left Tiffany to have my daughter that's when I started my own business Scenterprises (https:// suephillips.com/scenterprises/) and it has been extraordinary. When I left Tiffany and started my own business I was retained to develop a fragrance for Burberry and the Trish McEvoy fragrances and then Avon retained me to develop several different business models, so I was creating and developing many
