Rose + Spice: Creating an Edge to Brown-Eyed Brooks

The Scents That Inspired My Latest Perfume

Above: A publicity photo of Louise Brooks published in Stars of the Photoplay: Art Portraits of Famous Film Favorites with Short Biographical Sketches (1930). The accompanying description reads:

"It was as a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and in the George White's 'Scandals' that Louise Brooks first came to the attention of the public. She was born in Wichita Kansas, in 1909, and entered pictures with Paramount in 1925. With the advent of the talkies, Louise went to Germany to make pictures, returning later to this country. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. She was married to Director Eddie Sutherland in 1926 and divorced from him in 1928."

1930. (PD-US-Expired)

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What’s spicy with a little edge? But not too much spice? And draws out a spicy, sassy note to rose? These were the questions that I asked myself when thinking of the ingredients to add to my latest perfume Brown-eyed Brooks.

I thought about the usual suspects: Pepper (too cold), ginger (too obvious). But the spice that I settled on is a warm spice, a comforting spice, but it also adds a side edge of sass. Not too much. But enough. ‘Cos a little sass is good, right?

So which spice am I talking about and how did I pair it with my first ingredient of Brown-eyed Brooks that I talked about last time?

The Surprising Spice Note in Brown-eyed Brooks