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Interview with Guild President Anya McCoy on Perfume Critic

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

Natural Perfumers Guild president Anya McCoy is interviewed by Marlen Harrison of Perfume Critic in Part 1 of a two-part interview. Anya and Marlen banter about many subjects including the differences between natural perfumery, aromatherapy perfumes an…

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May 11, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden online natural perfumery class, Perfume Critic, interview, marlen harrison | Comments Off 


Reporting substandard natural perfume classes…

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

I posted my complaint about Anya’s Garden Natural Perfumery Classes and it was accepted on scam.com And it was also accepted on complaints.com That was back in 2008-01-30.Anya’s Garden Natural Perfumery Classes are run by Anne E. McCoy who owns Natura…

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May 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

When Robert Tisserand sends you a lovely card - stop and smell the Wild Rose and Lemon Leaf!

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

How Anya got her Aromatherapy and Natural Perfumery Groove on With Someone She’s Admired for Almost 30 Years.Ok, that’s just silly, but read on for a nice, sweet story about how I got to work with an industry icon I’ve admired for decades.(blogged abou…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Natural Perfumery, Robert Tisserand, Wild Rose and Lime Leaf, aromatherapy, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Associate Natural Perfumers Guild Member Robert Tisserand Reveals Collaboration with Anya McCoy on Perfume Blend for new Body Care line

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

In one of the first perfume blending collaborative efforts of the Natural Perfumers Guild, noted aromatherapist Robert Tisserand reveals on his website that Guild president Anya McCoy assisted in the formulation of the perfume blend that scents his new…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Natural Perfumery, Robert Tisserand, Wild Rose and Lemon Leaf, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 


Associate Natural Perfumers Guild Member Robert Tisserand Reveals Collaboration with Anya McCoy on Perfume Blend for new Body Care line

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

In one of the first perfume blending collaborative efforts of the Natural Perfumers Guild, noted aromatherapist Robert Tisserand reveals on his website that Guild president Anya McCoy assisted in the formulation of the perfume blend that scents his new…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Natural Perfumery, Robert Tisserand, Wild Rose and Lemon Leaf, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 


An opinion: Natural Perfumers Guild is an unethical business and it’s “president” owner conducts her business in an unethical manner.

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

I want to write a special post first to say thanks for all the comments everybody made in support of me and my loss of 800.00 USD to Anya’s Garden and all that went with that loss. Secondly to highlight what now appears is so much greater that my pligh…

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May 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya McCoy's Natural Perfumery Group, Anya McCoys Natural Perfumers Guild, Anya's Garden, Natural Perfumery, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Egyptologist and Perfumer David Mark - Expert Q&A Guest in Anya’s Garden Natural Perfumery online Class

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

On Saturday, May 3, 2008 Egyptologist and Perfumer David Mark of Chicago’s Renaissance Aromas was the guest for the Expert Q&A session (formerly known as Guest Lecturer series) inAnya’s Garden online Natural Perfumery class.Originally scheduled for…

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, David Mark Covill, Kyphi, Natural Perfumery, education in natural perfumes, natural perfumers guild, online perfumery course | Comments Off 

How Anya’s Garden natural perfumery class went

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

Remember THIS post about Anya’s Garden natural perfumery class I started?I never did tell anybody how my Natural Perfumery class with Anya McCoy went did I? The class was an utter disappointment.I was 2 months into the class when I made some complaint…

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April 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya McCoy's Natural Perfumery Group, Anya McCoys Natural Perfumers Guild, Anya's Garden, Anyas garden natural perfumery class, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Press Release: Natural Perfumers Guild and Cropwatch Oppose Limits on Citrus Oil Usage in Perfumery

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

Proposed Citrus Oil Limits in Perfumery opposed by The Natural Perfumers Guild and Cropwatch IFRA proposed citrus oil limits are cultural vandalism on the art of perfumery and are based on bad science, reports NPG and Cropwatch. For Immediate…

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Cropwatch, IFRA, botanical perfume, furanocoumarins., mandy aftel, natural perfumers guild, oppose citrus oil limits, perfumery, tony burfield | Comments Off 

The Natural Perfumers Guild Earth Day Goals

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

The Natural Perfumers Guild is dedicated to the ethics and awareness of preserving and enhancing the planet Earth through the conscious actions of its members.For Earth Day 2008, the following items are identified as goals of the Guild that will help u…

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April 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, earth day, mandy aftel, natural perfume, natural perfumers guild, organic agriculture, sustainable agriculture, web conferencing | Comments Off 

Egyptologist David Marke to Guest in Natural Perfumery Class on Kyphi Incense

from Anya @ Perfume Classes

David Mark of Renaissance Aromas (website TBA shortly) and an Associate Member of the Natural Perfumers Guild will be a Guest Expert in my online Natural Perfumery class. David’s topic will be Kyphi incense, the ancient Egyptian blend whose mystique an…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Kyphi, david mark, guest lecturers, natural perfumery class | Comments Off 

Natural Perfumers Guild Blog announced by Anya McCoy

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

The Natural Perfumers Guild blog debuted yesterday, April 11, 2008 and you can click here to visit it.The blog will replace the Guild newsletter as a place to share press releases, post ads, inform the public about Guild news and give higher visibili…

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April 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, education on natural perfumes, mandy aftel, natural perfume, natural perfumers guild, natural perfumery classes, perfume kits, perfumery yahoo group, raw materials, slow scent | Comments Off 

The Natural Perfumers Guild Blog Debuts

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

Hello, my name is Giselle Cannon and I’m the assistant to Anya McCoy, President of the Natural Perfumers Guild. This blog is debuting April 11, 2008 so that the Guild members may share up-to-the minutes news about their businesses and products with eac…

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April 11, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Fragrance, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfume, mandy aftel, natural perfume, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 


A Bedtime Story for Natural Perfumers

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

The following is the Module 1 assignment submitted by Annie O’Sullivan, a student in my Spring 2008 class in Natural Perfumery. You can read more about it here and here, but I suggest you skip the hard facts about the class for now, and instead read th…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Annie O'Sullivan, Anya McCoy, Temple perfume, mandy aftel, myth, natural perfumers guild, natural perfumery classes, natural perfumery story, tango perfume | Comments Off 

Naturals again

from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine

Perfume Shrine has always been interested in the developments in the world of perfumery and one sector of that is the perfumers who dabble in Naturals. Much maligned in the past, yet increasingly acquited of accusations of a blinkered approach, it is r…

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March 13, 2008 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Cropwatch, Dominique Dubrana, Salaam, luca turin, naturals, profumo it | Comments Off 

My monthly column on natural perfumery debuts on Basenotes today

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

Natural perfumery will now have a monthly presence on Basenotes with the debut of my column Natural Perfume Notes today, Feb. 20, 2008. Grant Osborne, the owner of Basenotes and I go many years, always crossing paths on perfume groups, and I was honore…

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February 20, 2008 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Essence and Alchemy, Natural Perfumes, basenotes.net, mandy aftel, monthly column, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Spring 2008 Natural Perfumery Online Course Registration

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

The image of the world is used in the online course website’s internal pages. The students see that pictorial banner when the log in for their study modules, chats, or when the access the site to catch up on the downloads needed for class, to follow li…

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January 11, 2008 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, course registration, natural perfumery classes, online perfumery course | Comments Off 

How I saved $230

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

I was getting close to caving in and buying the new Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Silver Factory perfume. After all, it’s a great scent and I really liked it (it’s the last item in the linked post), so even though the 3.4 oz bottle would mean a lifetime suppl…

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January 8, 2008 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Bond No. 9, Fragrance, Laurice Rahme, Liz Zorn, Perfume, atrocities | Comments Off 

Canada’s Glow Magazine features natural perfumery

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

The Winter 2007 issue of Glow, a beauty and fashion magazine published in Toronto, features an article “Two Scents” that yours truly is quoted in on the subject of natural perfumery. They give equal time to Thierry Wasser, perfumer with Firmenich, and …

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Firmenich, Natural Perfumery, Thierry Wasser, glow magazine, magazine article, synthetic perfumery | Comments Off 


Goats and Lavender

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

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October 21, 2007 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, Fougere, Fougère, Pan, Perfume Review | Comments Off 

Natural Perfumes

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

Today is blog action day, and thousands of blogs are participating in order to bring attention to environmental issues - see link here. This put me in mind of something I read recently (in Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz - see my posting below) about th…

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October 16, 2007 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild, Rachel Herz, mandy aftel | Comments Off 

Old School Perfumery New School Technology

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

September is back to school time for my kids and October is back to school time for me. “Natural Perfumery School!” I have enrolled and paid the deposit of $300.00. The class is due to begin on the 6th of October. I’m excited and a little nervous. I’m …

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August 25, 2007 | Filed Under , Anya McCoy, Anya McCoy's Natural Perfumery Group, Anya's Garden, natural perfumers guild, natural perfumery class | Comments Off 

Niche Perfumers

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

When I try to explain my interest in niche perfumes and the current explosion of creativity in that area of endeavor, I find that it easiest to relate some stories about the niche perfume makers. Learning about the new perfumers who have been doing …

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August 8, 2007 | Filed Under Ajne, Anya McCoy, Ayala Sender, I Hate Perfume, Liz Zorn, Strange Invisible Perfume, annick goutal, jo malone, lutens, mandy aftel | Comments Off 

The Psychadellic Earthiness of Fairchild

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Chihuly Pond of Glass, originally uploaded by tomalu. Inspired by the Fairchil…

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June 30, 2007 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, Champaca, Fairchild, Kewda, Pandanus, Perfume Review | Comments Off