Meet Saskia Havekes

In 1995 Saskia Havekes opened a small flower shop, Grandiflora, in Sydney’s Potts Point. Today, while the shop still flourishes, its founder has an international reputation not only as a florist, but as an author and now a creator of fragrances.

The Grandiflora aesthetic has influenced interior styling, hospitality, fashion, editorial and even the modern rituals of giving and displaying flowers. Saskia Havekes does not arrange flowers, she curates them. Drama and scale are her signatures.

 

From an artful posy to a full-scale installation Saskia is always searching for the chance to sculpt beauty out of the bounty of nature and the mutability of the seasons.

 

Havekes has shared her passion for flowers in the publication of four books, Grandiflora (Viking, 1999), Grandiflora Arrangements (Penguin, 2007), Grandiflora Celebrations (Penguin, Lantern 2011), and Flower Addict (Penguin, Lantern 2015).

Accenting natural beauty, highlighting remarkable events or cleverly suggesting wilder ways to arrange flowers and foliage, each book reveals a rich insight into the Grandiflora vision.

 

2013 saw the Paris launch of her first two fragrances, Magnolia Grandiflora Sandrine and Magnolia Grandiflora Michel. Today there are six Grandiflora perfumes.  The latest SASKIA was the 2022 Art and Olfaction award winner for an Independent Fragrance.