Angela Flanders

Angela Margaret Flanders (4 December 1927 – 27 April 2016) was an English artisan perfumer. She established the London based perfume brand Angela Flanders.

Biography Flanders was born on 4 December 1927 in Buxton, Derbyshire. She attended the Manchester School of Art, studied Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design and the Hackney Building College, intending to work with furniture.

In her early career, Flanders worked in theatre design, including at The Old Vic,

In 1995, Flanders read a nineteenth-century perfume book, published by Mitchelle Beazley, and began producing artisanal perfumes. Her brand included 16 signature scents for women and a range of colognes for men and women based on historic scents.

In 2006, her scent Figre Noire was nominated for a Fragrance Foundation Award (FiFi Awards).

Selected publications Aromatics (Mitchell Beazley, 1995)