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Sue Phillips, a local entrepreneur with a multi-national business, dedicates her time to help Covid-19 patients re-develop their sense of smell after suffering from Anosmia.

LOS ANGELES, CA based Woman of Achievement holds an annual women’s leadership weekend allowing state finalists to present their “platform work” (a community or social issue they champion) as well as deliver a speech about their entrepreneurial path or social impact cause. Representing New York in the
“Elite” category, author Sue Phillips will highlight her life’s work from her days at Elizabeth Arden and Lancôme to eventually developing Tiffany & Company’s first fragrance TIFFANY as their Executive Vice President of Fragrance Marketing. Phillips has written her first book relating the history of fragrance and
how human sense of smell is connected to intellect, emotions, memory and taste. She has also been credited with helping hundreds of individuals to “regain” their sense of smell after bouts with Covid-19-induced anosmia, and is co-authoring a second book with a neuroscientist.

A South African native, Phillips moved to the U.S. in her early twenties and has created fragrances for Burberry, Avon, Trish McEvoy, and Lancaster, all extremely successful brands. She collaborated with Jacques Polge in Paris, the chief perfumer for Chanel on the TIFFANY perfume. She also trademarked
“Scentrepreneur” and also“Scentertaining” allowing ‘scentsory’ experiences for interactive corporate teambuilding events. Her Sue Phillips brand will soon be global from New York to Dubai and her book “The Power of Perfume” was released at a sell-out event at the National Arts Club. She currently
operates the Sue Phillips Fragrance Salon in New York’s Upper East Side where individuals and groups can create their own personalized custom “signature” fragrance.

Woman of Achievement organization’s “Platform-Driven” Leadership Weekend & National Pageant interviews finalists on their past and current academic, community, and career accomplishments as they present a platform in which they will support a charitable or social cause. Judging criteria also includes lifestyle in fitness, speech or arts presentation.

The Woman of Achievement Pageant is a national pageant for women (ages 26 and over) who haveachieved success in community, charities, non-profit development, public speaking, advanced education,
performing arts, and/or women’s leadership. We provide public speaking training, leadership development, and professional workshop, networking, and leadership seminars.

For more information, visit http://www.womanofachievement.com

The Creator of Tiffany’s First Perfume Reveals Secrets Behind the Scents 

For more than 40 years, Sue Phillips, one of the world’s most renowned fragrance  experts, has created fragrances for brands, celebrities and connoisseurs at her ultra-chic and  discreet “SUE PHILLIPS FRAGRANCE” perfume boutique on New York’s tony Upper East  Side.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience, Phillips takes her clients on a journey of scents, sharing  secrets, histories and the effect of the rarest of ingredients she has collected throughout her  storied career. Their bespoke perfume formula is recorded in her database and can be  reordered at any future time. Now, “The Nose that Knows” finally relates her relationship to  fragrances. Years in the making, Phillips’ long-awaited and much-anticipated book The Power  of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! (Central Park South Publishing Company;  $19.95) is finally here and available on Amazon amzn.to/3v5resK and Barnes & Noble bit.ly/3cidbrp 

The 280-page book, premiering in bookstores worldwide and Amazon is filled with highlights from Phillips’ career, myths about perfume and little-known-facts about the intoxicating effect of fragrance on all your senses. The Power of Perfume: How to Choose It, Wear it and Enjoy It! also includes photos of celebrities Phillips has worked with throughout her career. She has created fragrances thousands of Fragrance Lovers, and for the Hollywood elite, from Katie Holmes to Jamie Foxx and Zendaya, and the late Cicely Tyson. There’s plenty more in Phillips’ book, but to reveal it would ruin the surprise. “It’s an homage to perfumes, fragrance and scents (which ever you want to call it) and how it really helps people gain confidence, reflect their individuality and create a signature,” says Phillips. “I always ask my clients, ‘Why wear what everyone else wears when you can create your own?’”

Phillips launched her book at an online virtual appearance The Art of Scent sponsored by The National Arts Club to talk about her book and career Watch the presentation here: Sue Phillips interview

Phillips, a native of South Africa, has lived in New York for years. An internationally  recognized expert on fragrance, she has worked in senior level positions at many of the beauty  industry’s top companies, including Elizabeth Arden (working on licensees Chloe and Lagerfeld),  Lancaster on the Davidoff brands and Chopard, Trish McEvoy and developed her first 3  fragrances; Lancôme Paris and Burberry, where she created scents for its “Society by  Burberry” brand. It was at Tiffany & Co., though, that Phillips achieved her renown: creating its first ever scent, TIFFANY, which became one of the company’s top sellers. She followed that up  with Tiffany for Men. 

Phillips ventured out on her own in 2009, creating a signature atelier in New York called  “The Scentarium” Last year, when the building was sold she created a pop-up “scent  experience” at Vanessa Noel Shoes on the Upper East Side.  

“My mission,” she says, “is to diffuse fragrance out of the bottle and to create  memorable fragrance ‘experiences.’” 

Phillips traces her love of fragrance back to her childhood. Her mother, Grace Phillips, was a musician and South Africa’s foremost calligrapher and made sure to surround the family  with art and culture. She was inspired by her mother’s singing and performing, and observed her mother’s exquisite artwork, Phillips says. “Art, Music and Culture were inculcated in me and  serendipitously it was part of my DNA which I never fully realized.” Until one day, when an unexpected curiosity struck.  

“I started to think about colors and sounds and what they would smell like,” she says.  “In South Africa there’s beautiful bright sunshine and gorgeous light and natural foliage and  flowers and I would correlate fragrance and color and think about what could that smell like.” 

She was on to something. Scent, scientists have long known, is the most powerful of the  five senses -- and the only one that connects memory, emotion and taste.  

“Our sense of smell is our most powerful sense after sight,” Phillips explains, “but it is  the most forgotten and ignored. Our olfactory hub in our limbic system triggers memories and emotions. People also tell me that when they are cleaning out an attic, and they come across a  memento from a loved one, such as a scarf or a book, that they are immediately reminded of  that person or situation. It is so powerful!” “Sadly due to Covid-19, many people have been  affected by sensory loss and they report how devastating it’s been for them; they are not able  to enjoy food, and therefore socializing becomes challenging because without being able to  taste and smell, they opt out of getting together with friends and family over festive occasions”.

“I am very excited to be launching my book at The National Arts Club, and on “Fragrant  Fridays” at 6pm EST and “Scentual Sundays” at 12pm EST in my #Clubhouse room The Power of  Perfume” where Sue has connected with thousands of fragrance lovers globally in the last  month. “It has been a labor of love and I am honored to have been involved in this remarkable  industry and being able to do what I love, and to create a difference in people’s lives through  our most powerful sense!” Phillips enthuses. 

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Email: info@suephillips.com

For information, contact: Denise 1- 917-449-1134

“We met with neurologists, neurosurgeons, ENT specialists, and all of them said if it was supposed to come back, it would have come back by now,” said Sahil’s father, Pratik Shah. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-smell-recovery/fragrance-expert-helps-covid-19-patients-learn-to-smell-again-idUSKCN2CZ254?feedName=healthNews&feedType=RSS

Sue Phillips, who makes custom fragrances from her “scentarium” in New York, is helping COVID-19 patients get their sense of smell back. Watch the interview here: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GMA3/video/custom-fragrance-covid-19-patients-regain-sense-smell-78674800

New York City-based fragrance expert Sue Phillips is inviting people who lost their sense of smell after having COVID-19 to her shop in the hopes of reviving their senses Read more: https://people.com/health/perfumer-helps-covid-survivors-regain-sense-smell/

“I guess reinvention is my middle name at this point,” said Phillips, whose new venture marks her second brick-and-mortar location to date.

A temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators that a person is infected with COVID-19. 

UPPER EAST SIDE — Lyss Stern nearly wept when her senses registered the distant yet still-so-familiar aromas of vanilla and amber. Though she couldn't quite name the scents, she knew they were there.

Loss of smell is a persistent challenge for some who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Sue Phillips, who owns a perfume business on the Upper East Side, has found a new way to help others through the pandemic.

Two-hundred million COVID-19 vaccine shots have now been given in the U.S., but for some who’ve had the virus, loss of taste and smell is a persistent challenge.

New York City-based fragrance expert Sue Phillips is inviting people who lost their sense of smell after having COVID-19 to her shop in the hopes of reviving their senses.

Those who have had COVID-19 face a wide range of potential complications, both while they are sick and long after.

The art of perfume is benevolent and majestic as explored inSue Phillips’ staggeringly researched and lively anecdotal new book “The Power of Perfume.”Phillips, a renowned and award-winning “Scentrepreneur” has a “scentarium” located on the Upper East Side where she creates bespoke perfumes for high-class clientele as well as celebrities such as Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx. She also created the first ever fragrance for Tiffany & Co. as VP of theTiffany Perfume in 1987. Phillips begins her enormously instructive book discussing the five senses and highlights that, after sight, scent is our most powerful sense as it connects memory and emotion.