Most perfumers use synthetic materials because they give control: a note that lasts, a note that lifts, a note that behaves. Hiram Green does not use them at all. Every fragrance in his catalogue is composed from natural materials only, which is a constraint most perfumers would find impossible and which he has turned into a signature.
The catalogue is small and unusually clear. Moon Bloom is one of the great tuberose fragrances, creamy and green and alive on the skin. Shangri La is a chypre of the old, proper kind, built the way they were built before the materials that made them were regulated away. Dilettante is orange blossom without a hint of the synthetic sweetness that usually comes with it. Slowdive is honey and tobacco. Arbolé Arbolé is a warm, woody, faintly sweet composition that seems to change with the weather.
Why it matters
Natural materials move. They change on the skin, they change through the day, they change from one batch to the next, and a perfumer who works only with them has to compose for that movement rather than against it. The result is a fragrance that feels alive in a way that very little else does.
Why Stacey admires it
Because it is honest. There is nowhere for a natural perfumer to hide, and Hiram Green has never needed anywhere.