The Maker of
Flower Porn on
the
Mysteries
of Perfume

goop beauty editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill love to ask—and answer—questions. In their new podcast, The Beauty Closet, they’re doing both. To familiarize you with each week’s guest, we came up with a goop beauty (and life) questionnaire.

This week we’re talking to:

Douglas Little, perfumer, Heretic Parfum

If you think of clean beauty as a bit too…sensible, you have yet to encounter the scents made by the talented perfumer Douglas Little. He’s the creator of Heretic fragrances and goop fragrances, all of them wildly imaginative, super sophisticated, and as clean as can be.

Sex, mystery, alchemy, obscure botanicals, romance, magic, and more than a little dirt come into play with just about anything he turns his attention to—including his (wild) conversation with us on goop’s Beauty Closet podcast. “Nature has always felt more than a little naughty to me,” he told us. Wear, say, a scent from his gorgeous set called Flower Porn or his exquisite, fresh, sexy Dirty Lemon or goop’s spring-in-a-Japanese-forest Edition 02 – Shiso and you’ll know exactly what he’s talking about.

1. 
   Heretic
   dirty lemon
   goop, $65

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2. 
   Heretic
   florgasm
   goop, $165

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3. 
   goop Beauty
   eau de parfum:
   edition 02 – shiso
   goop, $165

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To hear what it’s like to make a perfume with GP (they actually sit on the floor and mix essences together), how the alchemy of botanical perfumes is both an ancient tradition and totally magical, and why organic sugarcane alcohol makes for such a sophisticated scent, you’ve got to hear our conversation with Little—it’s funny, unexpected, and sexy. And it’ll definitely put you in the mood for a new scent.

Little’s answers to our beauty version of the goop questionnaire are, of course, as fascinating as his perfumes.