Hi! I'm Wendy Lee, Escent Founder and Owner. I was born and grew up in Grafton, a small country town in Northern NSW. I have lived here the majority of my life, apart from a few years spent living and working in the NSW Northern Tablelands. Growing up, my grandmother, mother and aunties always had beautiful flower gardens. I loved spending time there smelling the flowers, especially the carnations and roses which left me with beautiful scent memories of their sweet delicate perfumes.

 

My love for essential oils came about when I took my first massage course where I was introduced to essential oils. Over the next several years (during which time I worked in the public sector) I started studying various natural therapy modalities. I completed many courses including qualifications in Aromatherapy, Remedial Massage and Beauty Therapy. Along the way, I studied Flower Remedies and Australian Bush Flower Remedies, making skincare and bath products as well as perfumery.

 

I launched Escent in 2013 and at the time I was still working part-time at my day job. In 2017 I retired and decided to focus on my true passion, creating beautiful essential oil products. More recently, I became interested in creating artisan botanical perfumes using the skills learnt and refined over many years of blending essential oils. Perfume making came as a natural progression, an extension of formulating and incorporating the blends for use in my bath and body products.