I got told “you're spoiling the fantasy” once for telling people practical, down-to-earth kinds of things. Which fantasy is it? A lot of the time it seems to be people who make perfume, traditionally white men, believing that they're making things that women will want to wear to attract them. Is that still a thing? Apparently. I'm not really pro that romantic fantasy of why we wear perfume, but perhaps I'm in the minority?

— Sarah Mccartney, quoted in Making Scent Of It All With 4160 Tuesdays Founder Sarah Mccartney at BeautyMatter.

Her scents are composed as portraits of places and occasions: Ealing Green is a crisp green floral named for the west London suburb where McCartney met her husband; Maxed Out is a boozy mix of rum, tobacco, cannabis, coffee and a hint of hot sweat, modelled on a New York night out and not for the faint of pulse. “I can make something outrageous and, if only a small group of people love it, I just never make a bigger batch,” McCartney says. “As we do everything by hand here our costs are higher, but nothing is ever wasted. We bottle them to order.”

— That's Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays; read more in Meet the New Guard of Indie Perfumers Flourishing in London at Robb Report.

Ms McCartney deliberately tries to keep her costs down and to bottle scents in a variety of sizes catering for those on a budget. “I have a bit of an issue with things being really expensive,” she says. “I prop up the perfumes by spending weekends teaching the workshops.”

— That's perfumer Sarah McCartney of 4160Tuesdays; she's profiled in Perfumer Sarah McCartney can 'hear' fragrances as forms of musical notes at iNews.