To truly love natural, bespoke fragrances is to know Strange Invisible Perfumes. Master perfumer Alexandra Balahoutis has been doling out personalized eaux made from organic, wild-crafted essences that are set in a base of 100-percent organic grape alcohol for over ten years and her Venice, California atelier is something of a Mecca for the truly [...]

We’re not ashamed to admit that we have a little bit of an addiction to astrologist Susan Miller’s daily column. Her detailed horoscopes, with their shockingly accurate guidance in matters of the heart and the wallet, have turned us into a cosmic believer. So when we heard that Alexandra Balahoutis, the perfumer and founder of [...]

Alexandra Balahoutis has been obsessed with fragrance since she was a child growing up in the verdant Hollywood Hills. In 2000, she channeled that fascination into Strange Invisible, her line of entirely natural perfumes. One of the pioneers of the green fragrance movement, Balahoutis has succeeded in proving that haute perfumery need not be synthetically-based [...]

Alexandra Balahoutis was dreaming of sunlit island leisure when she concocted her latest scents for Strange Invisible Perfumes. So it figures she was on vacation when we called her to discuss them, but the Venice Beach, CA-based perfumer was happy to take a time out to share a few details. The new limited-edition duo includes [...]

With her famed atelier in Venice, California, and a borderline obsession with seeking out pure botanical ingredients for her formulations, perfumer Alexandra Balahoutis is becoming a household name in the bespoke fragrance world. Her line, Strange Invisible Perfumes, has, in turn, helped pave the way for the idea of “narrative perfumery,” in which the journey [...]