Jennifer Botto

Jennifer Botto did not arrive at perfume through convention. She spent her formative years on a farm in northern New York, where the changing seasons and aromatic richness of the land shaped her sensory world long before she ever learned the language of fragrance. That early connection to raw, natural materials would later become the quiet foundation of her work. Botto trained under perfumers in both Italy and France, countries where the art of scent carries centuries of weight. By fourteen, she was already learning the craft through doing. She absorbed technique across traditions, developing an approach that balanced European formalism with something more instinctive, more rooted in her own American relationship to nature. She founded Thorn + Bloom in the Boston area, where she crafts each small batch by hand. This makes her part of a small group: women who trained formally as perfumers and who also run their own houses. The industry has historically made that path difficult. Botto simply built her own instead of waiting for permission. Beyond her own house, she has created work for other brands, including Liquorice Vetiver for SP Parfums in Germany. Each project reflects the same sensibility: materials treated with respect, composition grounded in craft rather than trend.