Aftelier Perfumes is a natural perfume house from California, USA. Its founder and perfumer Mandy Aftel is also the original founder of the Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild. A natural perfume maker, Mandy Aftel creates her perfumes, liquid and solid, of the finest natural essences found anywhere in the world, using organic or wild-crafted oils whenever possible. Mandy Aftel is also the author of several books on natural perfume: Essence and Alchemy (a book of perfumery, which has been translated into six languages and was the winner of The Sense of Smell Institute's Richard B. Solomon Award), A