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C: Rose is a key ingredient in your new fragrance. Is it your favourite flower?
ST: It is. It's such a complex flower, but also very diverse. From rose to rose, there's a different fragrance. I love the sweetness of a rose. Roses smell like, depending on the colour and the variety, a candied fruit. I particularly like the grapefruit-smelling roses. And that's what we ended up with in this fragrance - real fruity-smelling roses. There's something extraordinary about roses. They are so feminine and beautiful, and yet they have thorns.
C: What fragrances did you wear growing up in Timmins?
ST: I didn't really get into fragrances very much as a teenager. I was very Tom Boy-ish. I grew into fragrances more when I thought it was time to treat myself.
I didn't fuss over myself much as a teenager. I didn't wear makeup. The odd time I'd put mascara on for a school photograph. I didn't play around with makeup much and I wasn't really a girly-girl as a teenager. I was into music and sports. I don't know at what point along the way that I thought, "Wow, it's actually kind of fun." Maybe I just matured late too. It's really quite fun to play around with all these little accessories and to treat yourself to a nice fragrance.
C: What song best represents your new fragrance?
ST: That's a good question. I think it would probably be "The Woman In Me." Although a lot of my...