Nannette Pallrand, основатель бренда Rich Hippie, дочь профессора математики и естественных наук из Принстонского университета и Университета Рутгерса, с раннего возраста изучала окружающую среду. Её отец был страстным защитником природы.
Таким образом, она узнала о парниковом эффекте и глобальном потепление задолго до того, как это тема стала популярной в средствах массовой информации. Её отец был также заядлым путешественником, они вместе осуществили сотни походов. В своей работе Nannette Pallrand использует только естественные, органически выращенные и натуральные ингредиенты, которые тщательно культивируются на небольших семейных хозяйствах во многих регионов мира.
[font=lato][size=4]The daughter of Princeton University and Rutgers University science and math professors who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with highest honors and has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Pallrand grew up learning about the environment from an early age. "My father was a science professor who was very passionate about protecting the environment. He taught me about the greenhouse effect and global warming way before they became popular topics in the mainstream news media. He was also an avid hiker who took me on hundreds of trips throughout the Adirondacks, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Not a day went by without learning something about nature, the environment, diversity, conservation." Pallrand also developed a special appreciation for nature during her extensive travels throughout the world, spending several years living in Brazil, which according to Pallrand: "Truly gave me an appreciation for nature just because of the sheer beauty of the country, the overwhelming diversity of plants and flowers."[/size][/font]

Nannette Pallrand, founder of the natural fragrance line Rich Hippie, said she created her company in an effort to offer all-natural fragrances for women that wouldn’t harm their health, a practice she believes requires banning synthetics entirely. “Organic perfume means there are no harmful pesticides sprayed on the plants that we use, and it also means we don’t use harmful man-made chemicals that can cause cancer,” she said. “It’s also safer for the environment because, in the places where the plants and flowers are grown, no toxic chemicals are being used, so the air is clean and the water supply isn’t contaminated.”

"We don't use any synthetic ingredients. We just use the real thing," says Rich Hippie owner Nannette Pallrand.
It is more time consuming, more expensive to produce...but it is worth it because it is safer for your health, safer for the environment and a much more beautiful scent."
The two-year-old company has 22 perfumes with rich titles like, "Bohemian Wedding," "Summer of Love" and "Hoochie Coochie" as well as unisex scents like "Nirvana." For the potent fragrance, Pallrand uses old-world French perfume manufacturing methods.
"The perfume industry was traditionally in France where there was a huge wine industry," says Pallrand of the wine alcohol she uses in Rich Hippie. "In France, famous perfume houses would pop up near these vineyards. After World War II, chemical companies needed a new market and went into different areas, like cosmetics."
The result is perhaps one of the most intoxicatingly fresh and light scents on the market that didn't make my throat sore or make my eyes itch.
According to Pallrand, all of the ingredients in Rich Hippie perfume are organic, including the alcohol that is made from organic California grapes as opposed to alcohol derived from petroleum. However, Rich Hippie is not certified organic.
"Perfume recipes are something that one doesn't give out. They are a closely guarded secret," she says, "To certify, one would have to give up the recipe and sources to the certification agency."

Pallrand will disclose that she gets ingredients from around the world: rose and camomile from Morocco, orange blossom from Tunisia, vanilla and ylang ylang from Madagascar, to name a few.
And although the luxurious ingredients are both exotic and expensive, the actual perfume is packaged in simple pharmaceutical bottles.
"I didn't want to do what large conventional companies do where most of the money is spent on the packaging and not the product."

However, the actual perfume box is an impressive shock of yellow and hot pink calligraphy reminiscent of Sofia Coppola's punkesque queen, Marie Antoinette. No retailers in Toronto carry Rich Hippie – yet – so it can only be purchased online. Which raises the question: How does one find a fragrance without smelling it beforehand?
"We sell sample kits of the perfume in small vials," says Pallrand.

Наннета также создала органическую линию косметики и средств для ухода за кожей. Nature Girl, the new skin care line by Nannette Pallrand (creator of Rich Hippie organic perfume), uses organic and wildcrafted ingredients grown on small, family-run farms from all corners of the world. The products are safe for your health and safe for the environment, hip and chic, organic and green, funky and fresh, happening and just plain fun. "Today's woman wants luxurious products, wants to look beautiful but not if it means ruining her health," says Pallrand. "Most skin care products on the market today are nothing more than a chemical cocktail packaged to look natural and deceive the customer. Not only do they harm the customer by overloading her with synthetic chemicals but they harm the environment by washing off in the shower and polluting our waterways which in turn pollutes our crops and contaminates our food supply. We deserve better than that."

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