Her oeuvre tells the story of seeking happiness and fulfilment in the act of creation, of maturing to develop courage to show her works to the public. She has the capacity for “transforming” her artistic soul, fragile and delicate at times, into the power of fragrance, which – personal dimension notwithstanding – uses the universal language of art. Yde opens up to every sensitive soul, one that will find its way in these unique scent note combinations… 

yDe = Going. 

yDe perfumes are made exclusively from natural ingredients: essential oils, absolutes and plant extracts. 

Talking to Magdalena

A mere handful of several thousand people worldwide compose scents, the community exceedingly narrow and elite. While we all have the sense of smell, few are blessed with a gift in the field. You are. When did you discover it?

Many years ago. I act on intuition. I compose and I sketch, imagining seductive combinations, matches or contradictions. I use natural ingredients only. And I work in waves. I may well work with fragrances without a break for days at a time, only to abandon the field for a year and returning after a long break with new energy and new thoughts in my head. I used to believe that everyone sees things the way I do. Today I know that not to be true. Everybody has been gifted with a slightly different form of observance, perception of scents included. I create my fragrances like images or stories. The process of composing fragrances is exquisitely intriguing as well – scents conceal mysteries. While fleeting, they have a potent effect on the imagination. Different hues are born of their contact with skin. Fragrance will settle differently on different skins, the smell on your good day varying from the smell on a bad one. The scents I create trigger diverse emotions. Women coming to see us for the first time are often stunned, our perfumes profoundly differing from synthetic compositions which prevail on the market.

Each of your scents has a different name. What do they mean – and what are the stories your perfumes tell?

Each scent has is own time, the one it has been created it, often as not one of powerful emotion. It is a sliver of my life locked in fragrance, a piece of the lives of others near me, and events of that point on the timeline. Certain fragrance note combinations jump into my head, a sudden idea I myself find astonishing. I have to test it immediately, that very minute. I start my trials, they take days, weeks, sometimes – once I am certain that I want a fragrance to stay with me, it’s time to name it. I carry the notion around with me for days, and finally the name comes to me; once it arrives, it’s always spot on. “don’t follow me”, for example: the scent is controversial, some find it dirty, others – stunningly beautiful. It will draw you in or repel you, never leaving you indifferent. Everything depends on where you are in life, where you are going, whom you met, what you want and what you absolutely do not. It may happen that you will not find the fragrance acceptable today, and yet, once revisited in a while, it will draw you in... 

„Almost white” - lily with cedarwood, sage and a touch of rose. Why “almost white”? Pure white has always been my favourite colour, or rather lack thereof. The scent is powerful and distinct, austere and pure in equal measure. Maybe that’s why it’s “almost white”.

„Catch me… if you can!” - brimming over with joy and flowers, flowers running and prancing cheerily, pushing their way ahead, annoying others with their force. “Between words” is a tussle between jasmine, black pepper and tangerines. The ingredients seem to be mismatched – yet the effect is great. That’s how I see it.

“Magdalena Beyer is an artist, one who sees art and life as an inseverable whole. Evolving on a number of levels, her artistic creation is invariably surprising, an ‘against the flow’ experience. Her artistic oeuvre includes composing scents – perfume. While possibly the most transient of all the fields of art she focuses on, it is equally personal and inimitable.”

Małgorzata Paszylka Glaza

“Having named the album of her work and her most recent exhibition with a brief – Yde (Idę, On My Way) – she alludes to the imperative of pushing forward regardless of circumstances, while affirming her presence. Nonetheless, the affirmation seems to be accompanied by a mission: “I will not avert my gaze – I look and I see. I’m coming. And I will stun you!”

Ewa Opałka

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