Ask the Perfumer Sunday Sept. 30, 2012
When the senior-year literary magazines for my high school were distributed, I was surprised that a botanical pen-and-ink drawing of mine was chosen for the table of contents artwork, and was on mirror pages. I didn't realize it at the time, but I had an intuitive grasp of plants growing up from the soil. No wonder I became a botanist and landscape architect, and given that my subject was the rose in this drawing, a natural perfumer. If you have any questions for my weekly forum, please post them before 10 PM ET, USA.