'Twilight' Films Inspire Four Addictive New Fragrances

Kimmy Cavallo is a former teacher whose experience blending fragrant oils has been fine tuned for over 15 years. Her business partner of five years, Heather Ramirez, comes from the luxury travel business as well as event planning.

Together, their mutual love of the vampire genre and the supernatural, especially the Twilight series, spawned a popular line of four wonderful oil perfumes under the brand name of Kimmy Makes Scents. The fragrances, Be.lov.ed, Pixie, Hybrid and Imprint are now on sale at , Calabasas' own consignment boutique and online.

Says Cavallo: "For both of us the fact that we made our idea a reality is very empowering. We both were huge fans of Twilight but more importantly we always longed to be entrepreneurs. This business has not only shown us that creative ideas can become reality, but that it can be an amazing learning experience as well."

Calabasas Patch recently spoke with Cavallo about the four unique fragrances that are each distinct in notes.

April MacIntyre: How did you come across Calabasas resale boutique Bella Ancora to feature these fragrant perfumes to sell? Are there any other places in Calabasas you can find them?

Kimmy Cavallo: We now live in Valencia and produce our perfumes in Valencia. However, I grew up in Bell Canyon and went to Louisville High School. I have close friends that live in Calabasas and I am always in the area. We met Bella Ancora owner at a boutique in Westlake and knew from meeting her that we would love for her to carry our perfumes in her boutique.

Our perfumes were sold at for the opening of the movie Eclipse, and we were there for about for six months and they sold very well. We are hoping to be back in DASH when the next Twilight saga film, Breaking Dawn, is released. At this time, Bella Ancora is the only boutique in Calabasas you can purchase our perfumes. We're hoping in the future that they will be sold at some surrounding boutiques as well. They also can be purchased online at www.kimmymakesscents.com.

MacIntyre: When did you both create this company, and what was your first step in marketing the fragrances?

Cavallo: We created this company a little over a year ago. November 2010 was our year anniversary of being in business. Our first step in marketing was actually by just attending some of the official Twilight conventions. We were also lucky to have Jillian Barberie feature our perfumes on Good Day L.A. the weekend we launched in November 2009 in conjunction with the opening of New Moon.

MacIntyre: What has been the reaction from the Twilight fans, and which fragrance is your current best seller?

Cavallo: The Twilight fans are the best! The response from the fans has been overwhelming. They love our perfumes. The Twilight fans always choose the perfume that was inspired by their favorite character not necessarily on how they smell. So of course Be.lov.ed, inspired by Bella and Edward, and Imprint, inspired by Jacob and the Wolfpack, have been our best sellers to the fans.

MacIntyre: Tell me which characters inspired these fragrances and the major notes of each one?

Cavallo: Be.lov.ed is inspired by the love between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. This scent represents their forbidden love. With top notes of lilac and undertones of fig this scent embodies her obsession for him and his intense hunger for her. This is our romantic scent.

Pixie was inspired by the character Alice Cullen. She is a vampire with a human-like sweet and caring disposition. This scent has an abundant sweetness with clean fragrant Pikaki flower mixed with the soothing elements of cucumber. With her fresh, free spirit this scent reminds us of her Pixie-like qualities. This is our floral scent. 

Imprint was inspired by Jacob Black and the Wolfpack. This is a lush, green and woodsy scent. The perfect infusion of grassy fern and patchouli, this scent captures the image of running through the forest with the scents of fresh leaves and earth beneath your feet. This is our Earth scent.

Hybrid was inspired by the character Renesme. She’s the daughter of Edward and Bella and is "imprinted" on by Jacob. Blending honeysuckle, pear and a hint of Earthy citrus, she’s the perfect hybrid of human, vampire and wolf inspirations. This is our fruit scent.

MacIntyre: If I am in Calabasas and I want to create a custom scent with you all, where do I go? Or is this done online only?

Cavallo: For a custom scent we can come to you!  Just make an appointment with us at 818- 599-4797 and we will come to your house to develop your personal scent.

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To try out these addictive natural fragrances, visit Bella Ancora in Old Town Calabasas or shop online at  www.kimmymakesscents.com