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Naked Beauty

Bottling Memories, Ethical Fragrance, and Creating Scents for Connection ft Maya Njie, Owner of Maya Njie Perfumes

Naked Beauty

The Naked Beauty Podcast

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After spending the past year developing my own fragrance, I’ve become obsessed with learning more about the process of developing fragrance. Maya Njie, an artist and self-taught perfumer, was the perfect person to dive deep on fragrance with. During our conversation Maya and I explored the scent composition of some of her top perfumes while discussing how significant her family history has been in building her business. We also talked about the unique experience of trying to capture feelings and translate them into scents that can be experienced by people internationally, the nuances of building an ethical business, and the surreal feeling of being sold in Liberty London.


Tune in as we discuss:

  • How she incorporates family photos and color palettes into each perfume
  • Why synthetic fragrances may be safer options for our bodies and environments
  • What kinds of mentorship and support small brands need to thrive 
  • Why fragrance is often hard to break into 
  • Why spending time with a fragrance is the best way to learn if it is truly for you


Perfumes Mentioned:

Maya Njie Discovery Set 

Maya Njie Nordic Cedar Perfume

We Are Deya Fragrances  (by Ezra Lloyd)

Sarah Baker Perfumes

Scent Trunk

Rook Perfumes

Perfomer H

Byredo 

Naomi Goodsir 

Caudalie Beauty Elixir Hydrating Face Mist

pHformula VITA C 

Weleda Skin Food


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Thanks for all the love and support. Tag me while you’re listening @nakedbeautyplanet & as always love to hear your thoughts :) 


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Stay in touch with me: @brookedevard


Follow Maya: @maya.njie.perfumes








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0:00.0

Why don't we want?

0:05.0

Hello, hello, this is Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty

0:09.6

Podcast.

0:10.6

Just to give you all a sense of time and place, I am recording this at around midnight.

0:16.0

I have had the most intense but wonderful day shooting my fragrance campaign. Yes, that's right, the Naked Beauty

0:26.0

Fragrance after over a year of development is finally coming. We have a launch

0:31.6

date. We're launching mid-August. And this campaign specifically, I've spent so much time moodboarding, dreaming, imagining, you know, being my own creative director, and I shot it in a canyon literally right

0:45.1

behind my house I was climbing on trees I was walking through tall grass because

0:50.1

the essence and the feeling of this fragrance is taking a deep breath.

0:55.0

It's the soft life, the slow life, it is really being one with yourself, moving at your own pace.

1:02.0

And I don't know if I've ever shared like the exact... yourself moving at your own pace.

1:02.5

And I don't know if I've ever shared like the exact notes

1:05.5

of this fragrance on the podcast.

1:07.8

So I'm actually gonna do that now.

1:09.5

The top notes, Bergamo and Nauroli.

1:11.6

That's the first thing, as soon as you spray it on, you get that beautiful Naurlli. That's the first thing as you spray it on you get that beautiful

1:14.3

Norelli. The heart notes, orange blossom, green tea and cedar wood and it's so

1:20.2

interesting the green tea I added in later.

1:22.7

Like I had been working on this for six or seven months

1:25.4

and I kept layering the Nauroli fragrance

1:28.0

over my Macha Lelabo body wash,

1:31.9

because that's like the body wash I use I love the labos mache of

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