Ayala Moriel Parfums

Ayala Moriel Parfums is an independent artisan perfume house dedicated to the art of natural perfumery. The company was founded in 2001 by master perfumer Ayala Moriel, who creates beautiful and inspiring Botanical Perfumes that are world-renown for their artistry, story-telling and integrity.

Ayala Moriel designs and handcrafts natural perfumes from pure, precious botanical essences that are carefully selected from around the world. I offer bespoke services for individuals and private labels, as well as a line of beautiful and original ready-to-wear perfumes. Through year-around olfactory events at my studio space (workshops, classes, interactive presentations and luxurious multi-sensory tea parties), I invite you to re-connect with your senses, live in the moment, and explore the lost art of natural perfumery and discover the ineffable world of scent.

We believe that sensory awareness increases mindfulness, nurtures compassion, bonds individuals and connects communities. We inspire the world to take time to smell the roses.

Our mission is to bring you joy through the sense of smell – with beautiful, inspiring, sensual and evocative all-natural fragrances.

We believe that all people should have the means to express themselves through the sensual experience of perfume.

Our Signature Perfumes offer individuals a rare opportunity to actively participate in the design process of making their own scents.

Our luxurious ready-to-wear products are offered at the most affordable price possible while maintaining the genuine quality of our perfumes

We are committed to use the highest quality of natural essences we can find to make beautiful perfumes.

We handcraft all of our products in small batches to ensure quality and freshness.

We are committed to stay small and unique, maintaining our sustainability without compromising the quality and style of our perfumes.

We educate our world-wide community about the sense of smell and the art of perfumery. We teach and inform about the unique qualities and benefits of using natural, handcrafted perfumes and its deep connection to human history. We believe that by doing so, people will come to appreciate and enjoy fragrance and break through many of the misconceptions that still pervades our culture in regards to perfumes.

Training courses in Natural Perfumery

Curriculum development for different age groups about aromatics, fragrance appreciation and scent crafting

Publish articles and blog entries on our website, and contribute to online perfume communities.

Empower individuals to create their own sustainable and eco-friendly self care and home care scented products.

Sustainability and Fair Trade

We support local artists and artisans by collaboration on perfume related projects. We believe that by doing so, we are adding to the richness of our culture and contribute to the prosperity and integrity of our community.

We do our best to use products that are sweatshop free. Out bottles are made in France, Italy and the USA, and our packaging and printing is designed and manufactured locally (in Vancovuer, Canada).

We do our best to avoid using endangered species in our perfumes. We also source as much organic and ethically wild crafted essences as we can for our perfumes.

Practice waste-reduction business strategies, such as reducing, reusing and recycling as much as possible - in production as well as in the administrative aspects of the business, i.e.: using refillable bottles, printing business documents on recycled paper, and reusing shipping materials.

We support our community by donating from our profit and merchandize to charity causes that we believe in and care about:

Helping children and adults suffering from Autism and Language Disorders communicate with the world around them.

Peace organizations – particularly educational organizations promoting anti-bias curriculum.

We believe that people can smell great without making animals suffer.

We do not perform any animal testing

We use only animal ingredients that are harvested ethically and without causing pain to animals (for instance: beeswax and honey absolute, beach harvested ambergris, African stone tincture)

We do NOT use animal ingredients that involve killing or torturing animals, such as musk, castoreum, whale-harvested ambergris and civet.

Natural Perfumery is the art and science of creating perfumes using natural essences only. These are essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extractions, concretes, tinctures, infusions and at times also isolates that come from natural sources – not from petroleum. Those essences come from organic life forms such as plants - flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, bark and fruit – and occasionally animal ingredients such as beeswax, honey absolute and beach harvested ambergris tincture.

Recent market trends, social changes and the increase of availability of natural aromatics have lead to an increasing interest in Natural Perfumery and there is now a growing trend of artisan perfumers re-discovering the lost art and developing new techniques and approaches while using many new materials that were not available for extraction in the past.

Ayala Moriel Parfums studio at Downtown Vancouver has opened to the public, providing on-site fragrance consultations and olfactory and culinary workshops.

The studio at the heart of downtown Vancouver is a peaceful space that offers a fragrant get away and allows guests to pause and reconnect with their sense of smell as a way to enhance their lifestyle and well-being. The studio is open by appointment only during the week, and also hosts Sunday afternoon tea parties that celebrate scent and sensuality.

The company has undergone a name change and was re-named Ayala Moriel Parfums to reflect the personal relationship between the perfumer and the customer, which is the core philosophy of our independant perfume house. Custom perfumes and personalized consultations are the heart of our perfume house, and the line of nearly 50 distinguished fragrances provides an affordable alternative to custom scents.

Quinta Essentia's website made it possible for people around the world to enjoy original, handcrafted natural perfumes.

Quinta Essentia Signature Perfumes was founded, offering fragrance consultations and all-natural ready to wear and bespoke perfumes.

Ayala Moriel studied the art of incense making and created incense and perfume for meditation and pleasure.

Ayala Moriel, the Nose and the founder of Ayala Moriel Parfums creates perfumes that are inspired by her deepest emotions and memories from her childhood landscapes of the Mediterranean. Ayala’s art as a Perfumer stems from her love and longing for the Mediterranean natural and cultural landscape, and is strongly rooted in those aromatic traditions.

Her work is influenced by her eclectic background in fine art, music, philosophy, psychology and education which she incorporates into the art form of Perfumery. Combined with an intuitive understanding of each individual’s need for self expression through personalized fragrance, Ayala creates customized Signature Perfumes as well as ready-to-wear perfumes.

Born in Montreal and raised in Clil, a small organic village in the Western Galilee (Israel), Ayala learned to appreciate the precious natural aromatics of the world; aromatics such as labdanum, mastic, broom, hyssop and sage grew wild on the hills, and many other aromatic plants were cultivated for medicinal use. Ms. Moriel currently resides in Vancouver, where she founded Ayala Moriel Parfums - formerly known as Quinta Essentia Signature Perfumes.