In 2009, I met our master perfumer quite by chance. This encounter opened the door for me to continue my passionate journey into the magical world of fragrance.

“I fell in love with aromatherapy when I was living in London at the age of 18. A whole new world of scent opened up to me. It was far greater than anything I’d previously experienced with the perfumes I used as a young teenager. For me, aromatherapy is therapy without words, and that’s why we use only nature’s scents at Karmameju Skincare.

In a small aromatherapy boutique in one of London’s narrow alleyways, I wandered amongst all manner of scents, and for the first time I noticed the effect they had on me. My journey into the world of scent has unfolded ever since.’

Over the next ten years, whilst travelling as a fashion model, I took my favourite scents with me everywhere. I spent a lot of my time in hotels, and upon arrival I always felt – and still feel – the need to ‘set the scene’; to fill the room with chosen scents and music to make myself feel at home. I would always light a lamp and drip essential oil or perfume onto the warm bulb to diffuse a sensuous scent through the heat into the room.

In 2009, I met our master perfumer by a stroke of luck. This opened the doors for me to continue my passionate journey into the wondrous world of fragrance. This meeting marked the beginning of Karmameju Skincare.

I am eternally grateful for our collaboration over the years. It has always been based on mutual respect; him as the master and me as the apprentice, and as the rebellious wild child who doesn’t always think we need to follow the rules.

It’s very rare for a skincare brand to have a perfumer behind the scents in its products. This is one of Karmameju’s many core strengths – uncompromising integrity behind every single scent. The LOVING, CALMING and ENERGIZING ranges are like a pharmacy for the emotions. I use them to set the tone for the kind of day I want to have, and the ranges cover a wide variety of both body and face products.

We also have three Eau de Parfums in the Karmameju collection. Many years passed before I felt ready to create our first perfume. In an endless world of fragrances, how do you choose? I had to train and develop personally to ensure I could capture the feeling and scent of Karmameju’s first signature fragrance, POWDERBLOOM, and subsequently work on NECTARFLAME,URBAN OUD and, most recently, the anniversary fragrance, STORYTELLER, was just as nerve-wracking and difficult. I had to build up a greater body of knowledge and experience before I felt ready to dance with the ancient art of perfumery.

There are countless perfumes on the market. Do we really need any more? Fortunately, we never tire of music, poetry, films, art… or sensuous scents. Precious, natural scents are not used very often in the conventional perfume industry in such high concentrations, which leaves room to stand out from the crowd and explore the original aromatherapeutic art of perfumery.

In my view, natural scents are unrivalled and cannot be compared to synthetically produced fragrances. The natural, warm scent of the amber note labdanum or the magical drops from angelica root, the finest elixir from Bulgarian rose and the many other jewels found in nature – they captivate my nose and my heart and brighten my day.

I am incredibly proud to be part of the ancient, natural art of perfumery, and I am so grateful for the many comments we receive about just how special our unique fragrances are. Grateful that our customers are ‘discovering’ that Karmameju Skincare is truly unique in this respect, both for the mind and for the skin.

– Mette Skjærbæk, founder of Karmameju