Seeking Balance

2021Eau de ParfumDiane St. Clair - St. Clair Scents Diane: This perfume, Seeking Balance, was initiated in the Spring of 2020 when so many of us were living in isolation to help reduce Covid cases. A good friend of mine, multi-sensory artist Erika Senft Miller, asked, “When things shift, how do you keep your balance?” How to represent “seeking balance” through the olfactory medium of perfume? After making trials combining a variety of clashing notes to represent the opposition to norms that Covid rules ask us to live with, I changed course. I decided to seek balance in aromas that calm us, ground us and center us through breath—odors of earth, woods, resins, and roots under our feet; calming flowers and plants; fruits and citrus oils. This perfume is a collaboration with Erika Senft Miller who created the unique artwork to accompany this perfume creation. This was done through a process of dialogue about the meaning of balance and a back and forth response, changing the art in response