The Small Business Sessions: Making smells for a living
Posted: Wed 7th Sep 2016
It's time for episode 17 of our podcast, the Small Business Sessions.
As a child Enterprise Nation member Marina Barcenilla distinctly remembers sniffing just about everything that passed her by so it's no surprise that she ended up as a perfumer!
She founded The Perfume Garden five years ago, which focuses on creating luxurious fragrances inspired by nature for a whole range of different products from perfumes to skin care to candles and home fragrances.
Self taught and a big experimenter, The Perfume Garden has really blossomed in the last year with a recent run of awards but Marina is the first to admit that it has taken time and a lot of patience to get to this stage which is probably very reassuring for a lot of us to hear!
Marina is attending the Go Global trade missions to Amsterdam in September and New York in October. Find out more.
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Other episodes of the Small Business Sessions:
Episode one: Colin from The Podcast Host
Episode two: 'If success was easy, everyone would be doing it'
Episode three: A sleep deprived mum's business born from exhaustion
Episode four: The accidental language entrepreneur
Episode five: Connecting people and watching the magic happen
Episode six: A fashion brand inspired by holiday snaps
Episode seven: Believe in yourself and keep on learning
Episode eight: From garden shed to Dragons' Den and a £10m valuation
Episode nine: Taking on the soggy tea bag entrepreneur style!
Episode 10: The designer breathing new life in to UK knitwear
Episode 11: The corporate lawyer turned fragrance maker
Episode 12: When dating met charity, the perfect business relationship
Episode 13: A start-up helping us make better decisions together
Episode 14: The coffee fiend who founded a healthy tea company
Episode 15: The brothers running England's oldest family jewellers
Episode 16: The Enterprise Nation member who's helping to save lives