Speakers

Founder Nicole Eckels is a maverick whose passion for the transformative power of scent inspired her to create her own global fragrance brand. Glasshouse Fragrances has flourished for two decades, creating cult-like devotion from fans and achieving success in over ten countries. Nicole's destiny as a beauty industry leader was forged by this fascination with the way smells become deeply linked in our psyche to life moments. In 2005, as a New Yorker and single mom far from home, embarking on a new life in Australia, Nicole created Glasshouse Fragrances, single handedly inventing a new category of 'destination fragrances' designed to evoke an enchanting locale - with an early focus on home fragrance. The first versions were made in Nicole's kitchen, curating and blending luxury ingredients: an alchemy that makes each note even more divine when paired with others, like harmony in a melody. Nicole designed a range of long-lasting, refined scent for the pickiest, most discerning beauty obsessive - herself. Today, in collaboration with an international team of esteemed perfumers, Nicole has built Glasshouse Fragrances into the Southern Hemisphere's leading fragrance brand, selling fine fragrances for home and body in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Now, Nicole has launched Glasshouse Fragrances in the US, where there is no product line with a comparable breadth and depth in the home fragrance category. Nicole's mission: to offer the sensory bliss of the 'ahhh' to transport us further than fragrance. The wholesome freshness of linen flapping in the breeze in The Hamptons; the tropical headiness of white petals dripping in rain; the crunch of snow as you walk through crisp pine-scented air, shopping for a Christmas tree' Nicole's life as a business woman dovetails the strength and vision of empire building with the soul-gladdening magic of luxury fragrance: 'Without it, life is just not the same.'