Interview Series on Olfactoria’s Travels

ByLaurie

Birgit on Olfactoria’s Travels has been doing a weekly interview series with various people in the perfume field. So far she’s interviewed Mandy Aftel, Vero Kern, and Viktoria Minya. Today she posted my responses to her questions. She chose an innovative format with short sentence beginnings that we answer with short sentence endings. It makes for a quick read but reveals a bit more about the person in just a few words. Fun! Thanks for including me, Birgit!

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