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A PIONEER OF SCENT

"Scent informs us where we are.
A perfume journeys us to where we want to be"

- Peter Thomas- 

In 1892, twelve year old Paul Thomas left his hometown in the mining community of the Welsh Valleys with his uncle Benjamin in order to seek their fortune in the New World.

Leaving behind his parents and two year old brother Peter, it would be 40 years until the

'Two Little Dickie Birds' as their parents affectionately called them met again.

Initially the pair settled in Buckeye, Pennsylvania, as Benjamin further developed his skills in apothecary and eventually established a travelling cart selling herbal tonics and medicines to the settlements developing all over the state.

Doctor Dickiebird Origins
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As official apprentice, Paul absorbed the learning from his uncle who affectionately called him 'Dickiebird' a reminder of home and a name that would eventually deliver the both of them their fortune.

Paul had a particular interest in the healing and restorative powers of scent and developed a collection of formulations that he hand blended and bottled with water to create a spray that could be used to fragrance a room and restore 'health and wellbeing' 

The room sprays become an instant hit and to meet demand Paul and his Uncle Benjamin closed the travelling apothecary and concentrated all of their efforts on producing bottles of the in demand room sprays, investing in twelve of the finest carts to transport their products all over the West.

Each cart was proudly emblazoned with the words;

 

'Dr Dickiebird's 

Finest Apothecary Room Mist 

To Restore Body and Mind'.

 

A lot has changed since 1892 but the legend of Dr Dickiebird lives on.

 

In 2015 Peter Thomas set about capturing the legacy of this pioneer of the West whose mythology and adventures had been shared to him in childhood bedtime stories by his own grandfather at

home in the Welsh Valleys

 

Peter Thomas spent two years studying and crafting the perfect fragrances and in 2017 realised the vision of his great-great grandfather Dr Dickiebird and developed his own room fragrances using only the finest ingredients and always poured by hand to ensure the blend just like Dr Dickiebird did all those years ago. 

Sharing the values of Dr Dickiebird, Peter believes that a scent can transport us to times and places from our memories and imaginations.

He believes in storytelling through fragrance.

Rooms can be catalysts to journeys into the future, the past and places we can only dream of.

In developing the collection Peter aims to create the theatre of aromas to transport your home to a place you want to be.

So join the adventure in scent and explore the worlds created by the perfume studio at Dr Dickiebird in the memory of the 'good doctor' himself.

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