Trygve Harris is the owner and founder of Enfleurage. Originally from Southern California, she currently resides in New York City, where she has been since 1995. Interested in oils and incense from her earliest years, she has managed to marry her love of aromatics with her love of travel, regularly journeying to some of the globes most interesting and remote parts to explore the local olfactory delights.

Trygve has studied aromatherapy in Australia, distillation in Indiana, perfumery in Yemen, and incense in China, India, Vietnam, and Laos.

While her specialties are agarwood and the local aromatics of the Arabian Penninsula, Ms Harris is enthusiastic and charmed by the fragrant natural world in general, and is continually expanding her experience and knowledge in many areas, including essential oils, their lives as plants, their growth, harvest, extraction, and these effects on neighboring creatures.

Trygve Harris can be reached by phone at +1-212-691-1610 or via email jasmine@enfleurage.com

Enfleurage is the process of extracting the aromatic soul of a plant (usually a flower) in the gentlest way possible, using large framed glass trays of solid fats, usually animal fats like lard. The blossoms are slowly persuaded to give up their scent as they die, and are replaced daily by other freshly picked blossoms until the fat is saturated with the flower's essence. This pomade is then washed with ethyl alcohol to coax the fragrant molecules out, after which the alcohol is separated from the fat and then allowed to evaporate, leaving a rich and concentrated pure flower oil.

A memorial to Robear

In memory of my best friend, the sweetest creature I have ever known. Robear led an exemplary life - he faced everything with courage and dignity and always did his best. Always sweet. Always gentle. Always loyal and loving.

He was my dearest friend and I miss him.