Roxana Villa of Roxana Illuminated Perfume is the September sponsor for the Le Parfumeur Rebelle monthly giveaway.Enter here.Good luck!
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Illuminated Perfume
September 21st, 2008 — , Giveaway, Le Parfumeur Rebelle, Natural Perfumery, Roxana Illuminated Perfume, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Lyn Ayre Natural Perfumer
September 5th, 2008 — , Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, advertising, article, botanical perfumery, interview, natural perfumer, perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Lyn Ayre Natural Perfumer featured in Sniffapalooza Magazine.
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Labor Day Weekend Natural Perfumery Workshop
September 2nd, 2008 — , Education, Justine Crane, Natural Perfumery, Sierra Nevada, antiquarian perfumery, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer, olfaction, perfumer, primer, raw materials, working the bench from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Intermountain Nursery ~ August 30, 2008 ~ Introduction to Natural & Botanical PerfumeryWhat fun!
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Updated Syllabus for Anya’s Garden Online Basic Natural Perfumery Course - Fall 2008
August 21st, 2008 — , Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden online natural perfumery class, Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, Natural Perfumes, Study Perfumery, botanical perfume, botanical perfumery from Anya @ Anya's Garden Natural Perfume Classes
Anya’s Garden Online Basic Natural Perfumery Course Syllabus, Goals and Objectives revised August 20, 2008The previously-published syllabus did not include the topics in the Study Modules of the online class website. They are in…
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June 21st, 2008 — , Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, advertising, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer, ruth ruane, white witch from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Ruth Ruane, aka White Witch, has recently redesigned her website ~ it’s easy to maneuver, easy on the eyes, and the products listed are — well, run on over there and take a peek for yourself!White WitchPhoto copyright White Witch
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June 18th, 2008 — , Antiquarian Perfumer, Natural Perfumery, antiquarian perfume, antiquarian perfumery, botanical perfumery, monikers, natural perfumer, pretention, snark from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
The most recent entry into the current line-up of explanations of ‘what we do’ has arrived, via Martin Watt ~ Antiquarian Perfumery While many of us veer away from frivolous and pretentious monikers in this business (i.e. Master Perfumer, Artisan Perfu…
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June 11th, 2008 — , Christopher McMahon, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, joy, magic, spirituality from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I spent a bit of time on White Lotus Aromatics’ website perusing the archives. Reading Christopher McMahon’s descriptions of blue lotus & agarwood made me drool.Blue lotus is a spectacular essence. No words can aptly describe it. It produces a phys…
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June 10th, 2008 — , Bulgaria, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer, rose production from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Forbes.com announced today: Bulgaria expects record production of rose oil in 2008Sophia, Bulgaria - Bulgaria’s rose oil distilleries expect record production this season of the ingredient …
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May 22nd, 2008 — , Education, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Much has been written lately about natural and botanical perfumery education. It seems you can’t throw a stick these days without hitting an expert in the blending and creation of natural and botanical perfumes. Five years ago your education options we…
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May 20th, 2008 — , Diana Rajchel, Natural Perfumery, advertising, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Come out, come out wherever you are!Magickal Realism’s Diana Rajchel has created a scent which pays homage to the vampire. The really good-looking rock star kind, of course. No bald-headed, drooling, moogly-eyed Nosferatu in this bottle.It has a wicked…
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May 20th, 2008 — , EdC, Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I felt I’d done quite well with my first real attempt at an EdC. That is, I felt that way until this morning.Trying to put a new twist on an old formula isn’t as easy as you might think. Other folks are chiming in with what they’ve done to tweak the fo…
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May 19th, 2008 — , Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, raw materials, tinctures from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Chamaebatia foliolosa, supposedly a member of the rose family, is a scent once sniffed is never forgotten.Mountain Misery, it’s common name, or Kit Kit Dizze, it’s less common- common name, is the scent of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Deeply green and …
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May 16th, 2008 — , Natural Perfumery, advertising, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I woke yesterday morning with a telltale pulsing behind my left eye. Yup, the sinuses were acting up again.I’ve suffered with sinus infections, hay fever and allergies my entire adult life, and it’s not something a natural perfumer can deal with very w…
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May 13th, 2008 — , EdC, Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, formulating, raw materials from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I’ve been playing around with Eau de Colognes of late ~ attempting to recreate formulas, and come up with a few of my own.The whole water issue with EdC’s kind of scare me. I remember when I was new to natural perfumery, I attempted an EdC based on a f…
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May 10th, 2008 — , Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, raw materials from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I’m obsessed with green.I want to run out and gather up leaves and grass to tincture. Chaparral — manzanita in particular — intrigues me. I’m inspired by Roxana Villa’s ‘Q’ parfum built around an oak leaf tincture. She and I had brief email conversa…
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May 8th, 2008 — , Edward Sagarin, Mother's Day, Natural Perfumery, Youth Dew, advertising, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
“At various times of the year, as gift-giving holidays approach, the advertising columns of the newspapers take on a changed aspect. The flights of fancy of the copy writers have no limits. The lady is exhorted to use a drop of an odor that will bring …
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May 8th, 2008 — , Perfume Bloggers, blue lotus, botanical perfumery, mandrake apothecary from scentedwench @ The Scented Wench
It’s been on the list of ‘things to do’ for a couple months, but Hekate is finally back in the lineup alongside Demeter.
I’m hoping to add an additional unguent or eau de parfum with blue lotus as a primary note in coming months. I particularly like what it does with rose and spikenard in [...]
Yuzu
May 2nd, 2008 — , Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I remember my first experience with this essence as being sort of meh. No big deal, I thought. Now, years later, I find myself craving the scent of this odd little citrus.It is not sweet and robust as orange essence, nor subtly tart as lemon, or sheer …
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May 1st, 2008 — , Education, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, accords, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I’ve been experimenting with creating leather accords, pushing the leathers toward gourmand and simple rankness.The gourmand leather accord is pretty interesting. Among many of its components is valerian root tincture. Valerian, as supremely rank as it…
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April 30th, 2008 — , Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, snark from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
What comes around goes around.You reap what you sow.Karma.Someone once told me, during a long, protracted, one-sided phone conversation funded on my dime, that we all (natural/botanical perfumers) need to stick together. Okay. So when is that going to…
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April 28th, 2008 — , Education, Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer, raw materials from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Some of you may be wondering why natural perfumes are so costly — why a bottle the size of your thumbnail can cost as much as $150, and more. One reason is because most natural perfumers build in cost of production increases into their products — giv…
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April 25th, 2008 — , Education, Music, Natural Aromatics, Natural Perfumery, Poetry, botanical perfumery, natural perfumer from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
As some of you who read this blog know, I’ve taken time off from the grind of mass producing skincare and perfume products to study. When I initially made the decision, I thought it would be difficult — y’know, being separated from my loyal customers,…
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April 8th, 2008 — , Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
There’s so much to do — even though it’s only April — before the re-opening of The Scented Djinn this fall.Formulating perfumes, for one! Ah, but that’s the fun part. It’s the marketing materials, contacts and basic pounding of the pavement that are …
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April 7th, 2008 — , Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
Ayala Moriel Parfums, Le Parfumeur Rebelle’s April 2008 giveaway sponsor, is proud to announce their generous contribution of a sample pack of six perfumes, including the newest to the lineup, Immortelle l’Amour, Gaucho & Gigi. Also included in thi…
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March 31st, 2008 — , Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery from Oh, True Apothecary @ Oh, True Apothecary!
I spent a good deal of Saturday afternoon staring out at the sea. Thinking.I thought about the words ‘I am a perfumer’. Just that for a while. Then I asked myself, ‘Well, am I a perfumer?’Yes. Yes, I am a perfumer.Saturday was a day of revelations. Abo…
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July 31st, 2007 — Natural Perfumery, botanical perfumery, chat room, lectures, perfume class, perfumery classes, primer, study modules, study perfume from Anya @ Perfume Classes
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