Oct 4, 2011

New Katonah Shop Owner Returns Home for Family, CommunityBy Lisa BuchmanBedford.Patch.com

Katonah, NY – To this day, Viktoria Fisch can remember how a dock on Fire Island smelled of tar and salt water during her childhood visits there.

“Scents can take you back,” she said. “Smells reach a part of your brain that helps you recall memory like no other sense.”

She can remember the first perfume gift she ever recieved—”airport” perfume, from her father’s travels. She can remember the first scents she concocted as a young child in Chappaqua, created inside of old Vaseline Intensive Care lotion bottles topped off with leaves and flowers. Later, she lived in Cross River and remembers visiting “Katonah Scentral,” a shop that closed in the early 2000s and inspired her to open her first ‘Ebba’ shop in Los Angeles ten years ago.

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