Pioneer Perfume started out as the place where I share stories from home perfuming and from my travels in the Pacific Northwest. Travel and scent, after all, are natural companions. But I realized in 2015 that scent had changed me so much that I now looked at it as part of my overall goal: To inhale the life around me.
That’s what I’m doing now — sharing the stories about inhaling life and stopping to reflect on the things that make me hold my breath.
This blog, while digital, is a giant F-U to the tyranny of the visual world, a handbook for living in all 5 senses in the digital age.
Where else you can find me
My story on Competitive Live-Action Oregon Trail has been shared 5,000 times on Facebook.
I am also a food columnist for the Los Angeles-based journalist’s collective Zester Daily.
You might also know me (or not! 🙂 as the writer of the beloved Statesman-Journal Column Desperately Seeking Salem or from my work with the Oregon Chapter of the Fulbright Association.
I live in McMinnville, Ore. with my bonsai-sculpting, guitar-playing, fire poi-spinning husband and our two sons.
emilygrosvenor [at] gmail.com
Hannah Brown Gordon
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