The Enigmatic Scent of Petrichor: Bottling the Smell of Rain
Artisan Perfumes, Exclusive Fragrances, Custom Scent Crafting, Rare Essence Collections, Niche Aromas, Perfume Atelier, Limited Edition Scents, Bespoke Fragrance House, Luxury Perfumery, and Signature Scent Artistry with a focus on vegan-friendly, recyclable, cruelty-free, and Australian-made principles
Artisan Perfumes, Exclusive Fragrances, Custom Scent Crafting, Rare Essence Collections, Niche Aromas, Perfume Atelier, Limited Edition Scents, Bespoke Fragrance House, Luxury Perfumery, and Signature Scent Artistry with a focus on vegan-friendly, recyclable, cruelty-free, and Australian-made principles
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ORIGINS
House of James creates uniquely inspired fragrances. Pushing boundaries and creating compositions that are both wearable and exciting. Our aim is to create fragrances that turn heads and intrigue the people around you.
Our first series, Euroflections was an homage to a memorable European adventure. Each fragrance was composed from concepts created whilst travelling in Europe. Sun King, Berlin NYE, Rambla Del Mar, Tantomonta and Hyde Park.
The next fragrances from the house were two stand alone pieces based on highly conceptual ideas and scent memories of our founder Justin James, Tomorrow and La'Rita as well as a Limited Edition piece which was a pair to Sun King called Athénaïs.
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As we move forward we bring more new and exciting concept fragrances and we collaborate with other well known artists in their respective fields to bring you conceptual fragrance stories born from interesting couplings of art disciplines.
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FOUNDER | JUSTIN JAMES
My interest in perfume was not always in the forefront of my mind. I am actually a Graphic Designer [J&DC] and my main passion has been Design from a very early age. I grew up in a small bayside village called Somers on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.
Growing up I had a mother who suffered from migraines, so I didn't really have much to do with scent (except the one she was able to wear which was “Vanderbilt”) until much later in life. As a younger man, one of my favorite pastimes was trawling the department store fragrance sections, smelling everything they had a tester for, pin pointing the notes in each of the fragrances to the best of my memory, or researching those I was yet to memorize.​​
The one thing which seems to be constant is perfume as an industry is becoming more and more “paint by numbers”, perfumers are now so restricted by the companies they work for to create exactly what the market research has dictated, that the industry is losing its originality….Can you imagine if Monet had worked for a company and was told to only use red and green paint?
The many niche companies popping up are almost like a rebellion against the industry. These small outfits are able to use perfumery as an art form as it once was, which I think it fantastic. It will be these small perfumeries like my own, which keep the art alive.