Montgomery Taylor - A Fragrance Story

Montgomery Taylor was inspired to create Ambra di Venezia following a glass making experience in Venice.

The designer describes his sojourn in Murano with friends who operate their glass furnace on the island and offered him access to their workshop during his stay in Venice. On a typical day he traveled by water transport to Murano and took a seat in front of their furnace to draw, design and discuss the glassblowing techniques. The other artisans allowed him to have a turn with the blowing pipes. He and the team also exchanged their concepts for glass art. In the evening, he returned on a boat to Venice.

At sunset, he walked to dinner. It was a memorable passage along canals and over footbridges. A canopy of amber skies overhead was truly striking at this hour. The atmosphere was filled with echos of voices from shopkeepers and Venetian artisans. On his walks Taylor's thoughts were of the rewarding mental and physical work at the furnace and images of fiery molten glass like the blazing sunset itself.

Back in New York, he shared this experience with perfumer Rayda Vega, and the two set about creating a fragrance that captured his daily Italian experience, the sunset colors and the.fresh breeze sweeping from the Venetian lagoon. Inspiring him also was his link to artisans who had focused on their art and techniques over centuries before.

For his bottle design Taylor instills the sunset quality reflected on Venetian palaces in dramatic evening light. The result is a glowing flacon whereby a divine fragrance, the art of glass making and the elegance of Venice come together in Ambra di Venezia.