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I’ve been trying to avoid talking about the struggling world economy, because I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. It’s a big picture thing requiring lots of ≈ and weird things meaning coefficients, with € ¥¢ and $ mixed in between. However, on a small level I can talk about a country I’ve never sold to: Ecuador.
Because the world economy – and Ecuador itself – isn’t doing so great, their president Rafael Correa has had to put down trade restrictions on a host of items, among them, perfume. First off, I had no idea Ecuador had its own perfume industry – you hear all about Italy, France, even Dubai, but you just don’t hear about perfumers in the Americas until you run into a fellow perfumer. And apparently, the US sends them a LOT of perfume.
I had no idea.
At a national debt of $17.12 billion dollars, I can hardly blame Correa for his decision. That’s a lot of debt for a small country.
This also makes me curious: does Ecuador have its own perfume industry, designers who are famous within the country? Certainly Ecuador has a significant influence on perfumers in the northern hemisphere: their chief exports include tropical flowers and fruits, not to mention the of-late controversial palm oil.
Stop by Magickal Realism natural perfumery.
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