Flyerline delivered the 2500 flyers for the “Sample Discovery Set” in English. 2500 because this is the minimum to order. Flyerline because I order all my flyers and dingsbums there; so here is the link for folks living nearby and needing some boxes of flyers from time to time. The English version because I want [...]
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November 18th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
eau de dingsbums
November 17th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I am not sure what the proper translation for dingsbums is… “thingummybob” maybe? That’s what leo, the online-dictionary, proposed. Dingsbums means “something, that I can’t remember the name right now, something not so important”. May neighbour who teared me out of my dreams when passing by her yesterday evening on the street, could have said [...]
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November 16th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I mixed another batch of L’air du désert marocain on Friday. It sits now in my cellar, 2. 5 liters of thick juice, waiting to become ready for dilution in about 3 weeks. Mixing air du désert develops into a regular task these days and brings about insights; every time I mix, I rediscover a [...]
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November 13th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I decided for Eosin as color for the invitation flyer for our Scent Apéro (German flyer: Download here) that will take place in Zurich, December 13.
Eosin is not pink and not red. And kind of a 80% solution to my request to have color that matches the theme.
Anyhow. The color is not critical. For those [...]
the man with the hands in gloves
November 13th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I am doing it again: Filling up bottles. And it is my pleasure to show you yet another detail of this task: the gloves…..Looks like I am ready to do the first cut 
Scalpel please!
Greetings from Dr. bottle filler.
Picture: hands in polysomething gloves.
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November 10th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Selling goods to people is a fascinating and tricky business. People are not always easy to understand. Goods may not be right. There are many lesson you can learn, like “markets can be cruel” if you produce cars that are too big or “nobody loves you anymore” if you don’t give enough discounts on electronic [...]
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November 9th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Highlight this weekend: Sniffing in the Storchenbar, downtown Zurich, with my Vero from Vero Profumo. Thank you Chaya for providing us some input!
Another highlight: I diluted a test aliquot of the rose chypre fragrance that I will show December 13 at the Scent Apéro in Zurich. This rose fragrance is finished (meaning: I have the [...]
hard working hands
November 6th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
ha! Luckily not mine right now…. I got some help to make the bubble-foil-wrapped-with-paper-cushions that go inside the box where the fragrance bottles will end up later: L’air du désert marocain, Le Maroc pour elle. This is my part today and tomorrow. Pouring, labeling, boxing, ribon around….
The hands you see are the W.-factor’s. Another hidden [...]
after a night swimming in ginger bread or
November 3rd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
…with l’eau d’épices, at a least with a drop of it, one of the last remaining, few, carefully stored in the cellar, in a 1 liter bottle, covering just the lowest , very lowest 0.1 mm. For those of you new here: Eau d’épices was the 2 year anniversary scent, given away as sample [after [...]
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Mexico
November 3rd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Yep. the mechanic made it to Mexico. Wow. It got further away than me. I never managed to get to Mexico.
Please read the Kelley’s detailed and lovely review on the Hyacinth and a mechanic (Kelley missed the mechanic, though ) scent. Thus, here’s the link to my little google map mash-up.
And here is the link [...]
Meisterwerke
November 2nd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Now, this post is for my German friends…
I invite you to visit this months new Duftarchiv Magazin and make sure you do not miss your chance to win a Vetiver dance and samples.
But besides screening your chances to win…..
make sure to also have a look at what is inside this edition. It is a lovely made [...]
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October 29th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Returning home late yesterday, I witnessed the first snow flakes sneaking into town. Overnight they joined forces and covered Zurich with a few centimeters of white fluffy cold stuff. The first snow!
What could be nicer today than mixing an new batch of Le Maroc pour elle! I will do so after having poured and bottled [...]
25 percent
October 28th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Yep, 25 % more for Kephalis. That’s what I learned when I got the bill for my last shiped order from my preferred supplier of essential oils.
Chandler Burr said (in The perfect scent) that Kephalis smells like “brown butter plus shag carepeting”, I would more go for woody amber with a green undertone and the [...]
he is back
October 27th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Ha!
Hyacinth, or the mechanic as you like it, is back and made an apparition in my e-mail inbox yesterday. I will publish the comment later today on my website. The comment is refreshing as the mechanic seems to appear somewhat wimpy, more on the fresh “Russian olive oil” side than oily sexy skin. Reading A.’s [...]
9 more weeks
October 26th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I just realized, while thinking about what to write, that it is only 9 weeks left until X-mas, and about 10 weeks until the end of this year. This leaves me with just a few weeks to prepare for the last few weeks of this year. We will have to pour and box some bottles [...]
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October 24th, 2008 — from Andy @ perfumery
Besides working on an ever growing excel list, featuring my stocks of fragrant materials that I need in production, I am planning for December 13 2008 in Zurich. This is a Saturday and in the afternoon Pascal from Medieval art&vie and myself invite for our traditional Scent Apéro before X-mas. Thus, if you happen to [...]
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October 21st, 2008 — from Andy @ perfumery
“his under-the-radar status is already endangered”… with these words Maggie Bullock finished her short description of Le Maroc pour elle in the ELLE of November. How true! -> I got a letter from the Swiss AHV yesterday, our state social security thing, asking me to fill out forms and later to pay additional charges… so [...]
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October 20th, 2008 — from Andy @ perfumery
….and, of course, for you , too!
Some pictures from the Scentbar…
where we were chatting with famous writers (see glass mirror), while the W.-factor was taking pictures (again:see window’s glass mirror)…
Where we had fun…
before leaving for…
Joshua Tree again!
this time camping…
watching the sky….
observing the rare (very!) and shy (extreme) bighorn sheep (Ovis [...]
again
October 20th, 2008 — from Andy @ perfumery
So I am back from my US trip and before showing some pictures tomorrow: it is again with the greatest pleasure that I invite you to check out the latest Sniffapalooza magazine. Enjoy this month’s entire magazine and two Vetiver dance reviews in the Aedes section. Enjoy…
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October 19th, 2008 — from Andy @ perfumery
Greetings to you all from Zurich, where I safely landed yesterday, right into a fabulous October sunny day.
And guess what: It was close to a perfect trip!
Meeting folks at the luckyscent scentbar was great fun. Pictures will follow shortly. Only topped by hiking and camping in the desert, watching the milky way with [...]
sniffa
September 30th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
The newest sniffapalooza magazine is out.
Featured this month: Neil Morris’ Takashimaya!
Please do not miss Michelyn’s Burning Down The House, and the review of Roxana Illuminated Perfume new fragrance Lyra.
Again an edition not to miss… ….read the sniffa magazine here.
And with this message we move on, off we go to LA.
More later…
the last one
September 28th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
This Saturday, we…the W.-factor and me, packed the last one, 21 kg of Tauer perfumes, for shipment on Sunday later in the afternoon. See picture below: Exhausted perfumer sitting on box.
The next line of perfumes I bring to the market will consist of mini’s, in ultra light packaging…something like 5 ml in 5gr plastic bottles, [...]
Milano
September 25th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
When I took the train late in April 2008 I knew where it would bring me, but I had no idea what journey started there.
It brought me to Milano. To Profumo.
There, Guido Wetter and me started discussing how to bring my products to the Italian market. I knew already back then about the troubles serving [...]
last day preparations
September 23rd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
And the drawing result using random.org’s random number generator of last week’s sample discovery set drawing is: Mikael. Please mail me your coordinates, will you?
And more I do not have to say today. Except maybe that I want to make the rose somewhat gentler in its head notes. I went to bed with it yesterday [...]
rose in color
September 22nd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Before hiking on Sunday, the weekend brought me into my perfumery mystery room where I tried another version of rose, less soapy. The W.-factor said so at least…
“what is it?” , the W.-factor goes with a paper strip under the nose.
“Rose!”, I say
“aha… but less soapy! Is this good?”
Well, yes, I guess so.
Changes : Greener [...]
fog
September 21st, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
time to get out of the fog…. Yesterday, we proofed again that sometimes your journey brings you right there to the spot and time and place that you wanted to avoid. Thus, we returned from a great day in the Alps, escaping the fog only partially as the clouds were sticking on the mountain slopes [...]
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September 18th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
before we all go for a more or less relaxing weekend: More bottles and boxes and a prize draw.
With the bottles of today I will have stocked up, to be ready for the next weeks. Some more samples need to be filled maybe; for the shop in Zurich because Pascal the shop owner there is [...]
ciao
September 17th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Yesterday I announced on my website’s shopping section that we stop shipping to Italy altogether. This is true for regular products and for free samples I am giving out later. On average we send things twice. Or we send registred, but even then the postal service in Italy does not work. This is a sad [...]
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September 16th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Yesterday I announced on my website’s shopping section that we stop shipping to Italy altogether. This is true for regular products and for free samples I am giving out later. On average we send things twice. Or we send registred, but even then the postal service in Italy does not work. This is a sad [...]
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September 15th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Not that we would expect a master piece coming out of the Tauer lab soon. But the first time since weeks I had time and lust to try some combinations that I thought I need to test.
The first test on Sunday was a complete failure with Sandalore (a Sandalwood replacement stuff, a nice synthetic compound, [...]
Latest edition of
September 14th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Sniffapalooza Magazine!
“There is the smell of the wilderness with the onset of a different civilization encroaching.” …Please follow the third installment of Michelyn Camen’s series in the Sniffapalooza Magazin this month, and follow her in her journey into wild lands.
And please do not miss Roxana’s interview and review of her fragrances from Illuminated Perfume in [...]
fresh
September 12th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
… from basenotes.
Vetiver dance is featured in New In Niche on basenotes. “slow dancing in a burning room” is how Michelyn would describe Vetiver dance. I invite you to read the entire article and thoughts on width of niche. Oh wow… niche is bigger than you’d think!
Click here (yes here) for the article.
enjoy and have [...]
Presentation samples
September 11th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
This morning was filled with ah’s and oh’s. First I learned that a sample discovery set might also (better) be called presentaion samples. hmm. I need a ghostwriter.
Yes, I got the Luckyscent newsletter and watched me smiling from my computer screen. Maybe you want to see me smiling, too? Here is the link to the [...]
hand in hand
September 9th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
The more sushi restaurants there are in Zurich, the smaller the sushis seem to get. That’s the quintessence of yesterdays dining out. Indeed, often quality and quantity do not seem to go hand in hand. Except maybe when it comes to CDs or cars. But even there, I’d guess a truly handmade car beats what [...]
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September 8th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Sometimes I am almost jealous on my fellow bloggers who are have the pleasures of reviewing fragrances. I imagine with an endless stream of new appearances and remakes of the remake there is a Mississippi like stream of inspiration facing you in your perfumery blogging. Well, just sometimes. Because mostly I am very happy not [...]
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September 7th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Three weeks and two more days before I will fly off the the US. Thus, phase III (final preparations) has started. Besides getting bottles and boxes ready for their journey west, I preparing some other stuff. Like searching the previous versions of the vetiver dance. And I found the mother of all vetiver dance [...]
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September 4th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Finishing a large pile of Tauer Perfumes sample discovery sets is on the to do list today.
And for speedy production, we do 50 batches at once, laying the folded boxes on the floor and filling them one by one with samples. Thus, making sure that neither me nor my cheap labor force (the W.-factor) make [...]
cleaning up
September 3rd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I am cleaning up some folders on my computer, putting the most important stuff in one folder, allowing me to extend my backup routine and do a simple full scale copy of the most important stuff to bring it out of the house on a regular basis.
So far, my back up strategy consisted of printing [...]
discount
September 2nd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Fragrance discount store seem to pop up like mushrooms in autumn everywhere. You own a bottle of xyz, you have a computer: And there we go! And we have another super trooper fragrance store around the e-corner. I just wonder why a shop like fragrancex would want to present a niche within a niche within [...]
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September 1st, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
This month’s magazine of the German Duftarchive features Africa, with “L’air du désert marocain” finding its place on the High Atlas. And immediately, it is there again, this disease that you can’t be cured off. “male d’Africa”, this desire to visit and come back to mankind’s cradle, Savanah that has seen our first steps on [...]
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August 31st, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Autumn is around the corner here in the middle of Europe. Even if the days are still warm and bright, the sun changed its light, and the trees get ready for their autumn fashion show, featuring colors, colors and more colors.
Every year the same story: Looking back and wondering. “ok….that’s it, right? Getting ready for [...]
your chance
August 29th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Your chance to learn more about Vetiver dance, my newest baby, to be launched October 4: Please follow this link to Elena’s Perfumeshrine blog and make sure you take your CHANCE TO WIN ONE OF THREE BOTTLES Vetiver dance there!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sun and fun
August 28th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
The sun is shining and the summer shows us what we will miss soon again. When packing the first 60 bottles this morning, the sun was shining right into the bottles when putting them into the box.
Lovely.
(Of course, they won’t be exposed for a long time).
Thus: Enjoy this picture and an interesting review on one [...]
Gabriel revisited
August 26th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
I went to bed with Gabriel yesterday; Gabriel was version 8.0 and in a sense I slept in angel land, with dreams waking me up again. Sleeping is like being dead, except for the fact that you dream and that you will (usually, but no warranty on that!) wake up again. In a sense, this [...]
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August 25th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
The meditative bottle pouring, planned for yesterday evening, took not place, but instead I found myself meditatively translating English text that describes the idea behind the Vetiver fragrance to German. Which is not easy, even if you have written the English version yourself. Languages differ by more than just words.
I will use the text in [...]
post Alpine
August 24th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
This is a post Alpine post…the two days in the Alps were just perfect. Starting in Airolo at 1200, through forests, accompanied by butterflies, hiking upwards, for hours to get to the hut, almost in the clouds, at 2570. And yes, in order to answer Marianne’s question: We had a touch snow over night. Just [...]
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August 22nd, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Yep… you guessed right: I am busy pouring vetiver dance into bottles and started packing the first bottles.
The next two days will see me hiking in the Ticino; with a night in a hut (cap cadlimo, Flikr Link) at 2600 meters. Time to relax and think about where to hike in California Have a fragrant [...]
The vetiver flyer is here
August 20th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
It arrived yesterday: A heavy box filled up with Vetiver dance flyers.
I love it! And it passed the test together with the canary yellow-golden ribbon I chose secretly; the combination works lovely, too!
Picture: Vetiver dance in its box with the yellow ribbon.
And finally, everything is in place to bravely take the next step: Filling up [...]
breakfast tables
August 18th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
Some may have realized: The W.-factor is growing into a different role these days. Besides helping me to remain on planet earth with both legs, activities include: Sample packaging, picking up flyers (today! hurray!), organizing my boxes, evaluating packaging, commenting on the number of e-mails that I write in which length, and organizing room and [...]
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August 17th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers from Andy @ perfumery
The W.-factor who will travel with me to Los Angeles for the launch of the Vetiver dance, October 4 and 17, and needs a visa for the US.
But first: Please mark your calendars… October 4 or 17!
Second, the visa is a joke. I do not need one because my passport is older and fits right [...]