L.A.’s ‘Gangsta Gardener’ Ron Finley Launches a Fragrance
Named “A Flower for You,” the scent was made in collaboration with Los Angeles-based Fiele Fragrances, where it is being sold exclusively.
By Booth Moore
Yahoo Life
October 8, 2021
Excerpt:
He was lured into the fragrance world by L.A.-based perfumer Linda Sivrican, who has mixed up scents for Clare Vivier, Vince and others, and has a retail store selling her own modern, botanical scents. It’s in the process of relocating to downtown L.A.’s Chinatown, where she already runs the popular Sesame L.A. market specializing in old and new Asian pantry items.
“It was a lot of fun, I call her ‘Linda the nose.’ I told her I should have just not showered!” he said of being her muse, after she found him through his MasterClasses, and reached out by email.
“I invited him over to my perfumery to play with essential oils as a thank you for all he does,” said Sivrican. “He said yes, then we hit it off. He wanted to support me, so I offered to do a fragrance.”
“I post a lot of flowers on Instagram, and I didn’t know people would take to it like they did,” Finley said of spreading his love of nature, which comes through in the scent. “Gardens to me are freedom. We treat it like a hobby, but to me this is a life skill.…It’s getting people back to that, to knowing we’re energy and energy never dies.…Even the brown stuff, compost, is a living thing. Everything Mother Nature produces is alive.”
