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from Scentzilla! @ Scentzilla!So, uh… yeah… I was flattened by my woeful back injury worse than I thought. D’oh! Moving on, so as to avoid another annoying “poor me” post…
David Pybus, whom I interviewed a wee while back, has some excellent news: He’s recreating many of his archaeological perfume discoveries for the public!
Dorothy Parker once said, “The cure […]
Rose and Jasmine Wax
from Zita @ White Witch Perfumers JournalThe day before yesterday I got a package all the way from America.In it was 8oz of rose wax and 8oz jasmine wax. I could smell them through the box. What a joy to open the packets, the rose is fragrant and true to rosa damascena, it is the consistancy …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingHow can bad, stinky smells turn into something wonderful smelling? In perfumery we not only use delicate wonderful smelling components, we sometimes use very stinky components too. For example Jasmine is a wonderful smelling flower, it’s one of my fav…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI used another design for this blog and I’m still working on some things. Like the categories that you can see on your right. I like the posts to be grouped by category but I had to label every post I made in the past and I forgot how many posts I post…
Read the rest here: Work in progressFirst Press Coverage for Anya’s Garden Perfumes
from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural PerfumeryI got a call two months ago from an associate editor at Palm Beach Cottages and Gardens Magazine, published by Conde Nast. She said they wanted to put a bit in their “What’s New” section for the March issue. The magazine came out on Friday, and I got m…
Read the rest here: First Press Coverage for Anya’s Garden PerfumesMy second attempt to create The Kiss
from Jenny @ Perfume makingI’m still working on my perfume inspired by the painting: The Kiss. First I work on the skeleton of this perfume, the notes that are the basics of this perfume. I used too much sandalwood the first time and toned it down a bit because I don’t want the…
Read the rest here: My second attempt to create The KissFocusing on the Network to Protect Our Rights to Use Natural Products
from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural PerfumeryTime for a break from blogging again. Time to network more with the people around the globe who are aghast at the bad science, bad attitude and outright bias that International Fragrance Association (IFRA) and also the European Union (EU) are exhibitin…
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from Lucy @ indieperfumesI’ll be taking a break from posting for awhile, to work on another project I have finally decided to commit some real time to. It’s an idea that I’ve had for some time, about pets and people especially as depicted in private photos from the past; as i…
Read the rest here: A break…Scandalous! What are the IFRA spin doctors thinking? That they wouldn’t get caught?
from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural PerfumeryI visited Robin’s blog Now Smell This today, as I do every day, and sharp-eyed Robin caught IFRA, the International Fragrance Association - now this is my word, not Robin’s - forcing - Cosmetics Design-Europe online magazine into rewriting history. I s…
Read the rest here: Scandalous! What are the IFRA spin doctors thinking? That they wouldn’t get caught?My first attempt to create The kiss
from Jenny @ Perfume makingI already started with my perfume inspired by the painting The kiss (see post below). I started to create the main accord of this perfume, I used amber because I think amber translates the golden colors of this painting, one of the amber notes is labd…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingOn my Yahoo group: Perfumemaking we are doing ‘perfume swaps’. In January we did our first swap, we sent each other our own created perfumes to get feedback from each other, this is real fun because we are very curious about the creations of each other…
Read the rest here: The kissIt’s the synthetics, stupid. (to quote an American political slogan”
from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural PerfumeryTony Burfield’s recent work challenging IFRA and the EU has forcedthem to show their hand, and here is the plain, awful truth, which Tony said all along was their agenda:http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=74667They’re insist…
Read the rest here: It’s the synthetics, stupid. (to quote an American political slogan”Tony Burfield’s Letter to IFRA regarding the petition and issues surrounding the 40th Amendment
from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery1st March 2007Dear Sirs,Please find attached the petition posted up at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ifra40/http://www.cropwatch.org/40thpetition.htm.You will note that there are approx. 740 signatories to date, including perfumers, natural perfum…
Read the rest here: Tony Burfield’s Letter to IFRA regarding the petition and issues surrounding the 40th Amendment