ARI'S POINT OF VIEW It is strange how time moves when your life finally starts to make sense. Weeks turn into months, and before you even realize it, a whole year has gone by. That was what happened to me. I had thrown myself completely into work. There were mornings when I woke before sunrise just to make sure every bottle of perfume smelled perfect, every design flawless, every ad line meaningful. I didn’t want my success to come from luck or pity. I wanted it to come from sweat, effort, and faith. And it did. When we first launched Miss Fragrance, I never expected it to take off the way it did. At first, we just wanted to create something elegant but accessible — something for women who didn’t want to blend in. I didn’t think much about fame, only about expression. But within a few

