Angela Flanders


Angela Margaret Flanders was an English artisan perfumer. She established the London based perfume brand Angela Flanders.

Biography

Flanders was born on 4 December 1927 in Buxton, Derbyshire. She attended the Manchester School of Art, studied Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design and the Hackney Building College, intending to work with furniture.
In her early career, Flanders worked in theatre design, including at The Old Vic, and as a costume designer for the BBC. She also dealt in antiques at Camden Passage Market. In 1985, Flanders opened her first shop, in a former shoe shop dating from around 1850, on Columbia [Road Flower Market] in Bethnal Green.
In 1995, Flanders read a nineteenth-century perfume book, published by Mitchelle Beazley, and began producing artisanal perfumes. Her brand included 16 signature scents for women and a range of colognes for men and women based on historic scents.
In 2006, her scent Figre Noire was nominated for a Fragrance Foundation Award. In 2012, her scent, Precious One, created for her daughter, won Best New Independent Fragrance at the FiFi Awards. In 2010 her perfumery won The London Magazine‘s Great Little Shop Award.

Personal life

In 1958, she married Michael Evans. They had a daughter, Kate Evans. The marriage was later dissolved.

Death

She died on 27 April 2016, aged 88. Her daughter Kate now runs the Angela Flanders perfume company.

Selected publications

  • ''Aromatics''