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Custom-blended perfumes
made by you and for you

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or call at 603-409-2799
What is essential is invisible to the eye...
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Introducing a new line of original scents:
Skunkadelic!™

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​Skunkadelic™ is part skunk, part funk! These three new trademarked perfumes celebrate multi-sensory creative inspiration of the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s and the era of Y2K. Skunkadelic is Midwestern Motown and Urban Funk; Chicago Blues and Cleveland Soul.
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Essense was featured on WMUR's NH Chronicle,
           February 7th, 2017; August 10th, 2017; and February 6th, 2018!

Here is the link to the 1st whole show.  If you want to watch the Essense segment,
it begins at 2.25 minutes.

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Photo by Jay Philbrick
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Photo by Sarah Dennehy
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Photo by Sarah Dennehy

The Essense Experience

The “Essense experience” is a journey of wonder led by your nose! Perfume can be as mysteriously complex or as joyfully simple as you'd like to make it. There are no rules, except Coco Chanel's: “fabulous.”

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Perfumery is a traditional old-world craft using art and science, inspiration and magic. With over 27 years of experience in this trade, as well as a Master's degree in Behavioral Science, I consider myself both an alchemist of scents and a translator of memory and emotion.  I love my vocation as a perfumer because it allows me to work with people in a connected  interpersonal way, while guiding them on a mini-tour of creative self-discovery, via the sensory aspect of scent and smell.

Because of the intense connection between the sense of smell and  memory, making perfume can be intensely emotional and uniquely personal.  I love hearing the memories and stories that my customers are willing to share,  as well as creating perfumes and therefore new memories for them.
Essense features pure perfume oils and fragrance composite perfume oils, collected from all over the globe, as well as many natural essential oils for aromatherapy. Essense has created many original trade-mark perfumes, available only here. Additionally, Essense carries a selection of “ready made” designer-type fragrance oils that can be applied directly to pulse points, or further customized.
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Essense is the original "indie" perfumery of New England. With over 550 perfume oils available, you are invited to sniff out every possibility of combinations, while creating your own unique signature scent. Prices range from $15 to $200 depending on how many perfume "notes" are blended together into a bottle. When stored properly a bottle of  this high quality Essense perfume will last for years. Nothing evokes memory as quickly as scent. Essense is happiness in a bottle!

Whether you come to create, watch, or just relax, your visit to Essense Parfumerie will be an occasion to remember.

I had a personal fragrance created by Essense almost 27 years ago, and I still use it! Not only has it become my signature scent and an element of my identity, but the oils last so long that its makes an economical choice for fragrance. Tamsan is the sweetest and so enthusiastic about what she does, she's made re-ordering my oils easy and effortless. She will help create a blend uniquely for you, or you can choose from Essense's delicious custom blends. Perfection!
                                       ~ Darcie S. NY, NY
Thanks to my FABULOUS Essense customers for their enthusiasm and loyalty, some for over 46 years! Thanks also, for the mysterious adventures in "sense," to all those adventurous patrons who have helped create some of the most intoxicating, unique, alluring, custom-blended perfumes and "signature scents" on the planet! There is nothing like a fabulous scent to lift our human spirits, to immerse ourselves, at least temporarily, in JOY.  Life can be very difficult sometimes, but the right scent is always captivating: for our enjoyment; for our senses; for our emotions, moods; for our inspiration, personal projected "auras" and our artistic sensibilities...
Essense site design by Janina Lamb • Lamb & Lion Studio

Summer 2020


This 47th Essense Summer Season has brought all of us a new challenge in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic.  After weeks of deliberation, and with consideration of the intrinsically personal process of creating custom-blended perfumes, with and for, my customers, I’ve decided that it’s the safest decision, in honor of all customers and their health, to remain closed for walk-in traffic this summer. I’ve always been honored that people come from all over the country, to experience Essense and to make themselves memorable perfumes. However, the Parfumerie’s a climate controlled, more intimate setting than some places might be, and we’ve all been educated in the past months, that closed spaces are not optimal for health and well-being, at this time.

For those who have experienced Essense in the past, you know already that making a perfume takes a minimum 1/2 hour per person, and often longer than that. Although I’ve often had “parties” of 4-14, this involves so much time together in a confined space, that it can’t be done safely this season. Additionally, it would be quite impossible for customers to enjoy the process of sniffing, comparing, and choosing amongst the 550+ fragrance choices, while wearing masks.

In order to maintain the sanitary conditions that will make the Parfumerie a safe place to visit this season, the perfume bottles must be wiped down after customers leave, and the perfume bar must be disinfected. Additionally, the handling and sniffing of the apothecary bottles must be minimized. This is a “learning curve” for all of us, and of course it’s not convenient.

Essense will continue to offer “by appointment only” visits this 2020 summer. Of course, this means less spontaneity. I realize that people enjoy spontaneity during their vacation-time, and during their summers. This summer, spontaneity must be replaced with planning and responsibility, to keep people relatively safe. There is no guarantee of 100% safety and wellness, no matter what one does, but if people seeking the Essense Experience, would like to visit, either by themselves, or with 1 or 2 others they know, and have quarantined with, they are welcome to do so, with advance notice, so that I can be prepared properly, and so random groups of people won’t be overlapping and literally running into each other.

Appointments for 1-3 people can be scheduled by emailing requests to Tamsan@Essense.com. You may also text, or call the phone number 603-409-2799. Thanks to all, for patience and understanding, during these strange times. 
Ruggles, the dog
Sir Ruggles, CCO (Chief Canine Officer) of Essense Parfumerie
Mail-order perfumes available year-round.
​Check the Shopping Cart for House-Blend and Essense Trade-Mark Perfumes!

 "I love that you take the ancient and the spiritual and put it in a bottle. That is way too cool!
I just love these rare and magic things, it doesn’t get better than this. Tamsan is a divine alchemist."

—Gretchen B., Bisbee, AZ


ESSENSE PARFUMERIE at Rock Ridge Farm is located a 6 minute drive from Meredith Village on the OTHER side of Lake Waukewan​ along the far end of scenic Waukewan Road bordering The Snake River, just over The Snake River Bridge. ​
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The Snake River

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The "Essense Barn," early 1900's

ESSENSE PARFUMERIE
at Rock Ridge Farm
is open seasonally,
Memorial Day Weekend
through
Labor Day Weekend
Thursday ~ Saturday
Noon ~ 6 pm
Other days & early evenings
available year-round,
​by appointment only.
Closed Sunday & Monday
Year-round mail-orders & appointments, available
Text or call 603-409-2799
Email: Tamsan@Essense.com

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The memory is the perfume of the heart. ~ George Sand

©2020 Tamsan Lee Beattie, MAPSS  •  Essense Parfumerie  •  Skunkadelic ™ • All Rights Reserved
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