Trygve is the owner and founder of Enfleurage. Originally from Southern California, she currently divides the majority of her time between New York City and Salalah, Oman. Interested in oils and incense from her earliest years, she has managed to marry her love of aromatics with her love of travel, regularly journeying to some of the globes most interesting and remote parts to explore the local olfactory delights.

Trygve spends much of her time these days distilling Frankincense, trying to learn Arabic, and enjoying the natural beauty of Arabia.

While her specialties are agarwood, frankincense, and the local aromatics of the Arabian Penninsula, Ms Harris is enthusiastic and charmed by the fragrant natural world in general, and is continually expanding her experience and knowledge in many areas, including essential oils, their lives as plants, their growth, harvest, pollination, extraction, and these effects on neighboring creatures.

Trygve is a writer, sporadically practices yoga, and has a blackbelt in Taekwondo. She enjoys playing with dogs, chanting with Krishna Das, and hanging around with friends.

Trygve Harris can be reached via email trygve@enfleurage.com

Thomas Carson

Tom has been at Enfleurage since 1998; he is the Manager. He is also a licensed Massage Therapist and a registered Aromatherapist. Tom is also known as Nurse Hedgehog.

Tom can be reached via email tom@enfleurage.com

Stacy Amber

Stacy has been with Enfleurage for over eight years and counting. In her spare time she likes to hike, render pencil/charcoal sketches in New York's Museums, and paint in water color in the gardens. She also loves to pay attention to four legged friends about town, including her adopted alleycat, Skinny: who has transitioned nicely to a housecat. Stacy is also known as Madam, or Madam Hedgehog at Enfleurage.

Stacy Amber can be reached via email stacy@enfleurage.com

Enfleurage is the process of extracting the aromatic soul of a plant (usually a flower) in the gentlest way possible, using a clean solid fat. Traditionally this was pig lard, but today we are extracting using palm oil. The blossoms are slowly persuaded to give up their scent as they die, and are replaced daily by other freshly picked blossoms until the fat is saturated with the flower's essence. This pomade is then washed with ethyl alcohol to coax the fragrant molecules out, after which the alcohol is evaporated or distilled out, leaving a rich and concentrated pure flower oil. Of course, it's a little more complex than this, but that's the general idea.

A memorial to Robear

In memory of my best friend, the sweetest creature I have ever known. Robear led an exemplary life - he faced everything with courage and dignity and always did his best. Always sweet. Always gentle. Always loyal and loving.

He was my dearest friend and I miss him.