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Independence Day as part of a business plan - Protecting Perfume at the Source

Jasmine sambac “Grand Duke of Tuscany” from my gardenAs an artisan who grows much of her botanical aromatics, I made a conscious decision not to rely on the vagaries of the open market for many of my supplies. Of course, I have to buy concretes, absolu…

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rosemary revisited

I had to decant sample vials of Rosemary today and something about its greenish brown gummy character (the absolute is like a olive green hunk of herbaceous fudge) made me wonder how it would behave with chocolate, to sort of play up the fudgy weirdness, and would a particularly dusty and greenish-smell patchouli be an [...]

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Beauty and Bread

‘Everyone needs beauty as well as bread.’ ~ John MuirI am back to the Getty today and must say very excited to be going. I’ve started the day with a chocolate croissant and…

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Base note

We don’t have TV hookup here at the house. We prefer watching films, and in the case of LOST, we download it off iTunes. My daughters father, Ben, works in the advertising world. When he comes by to see Eve, he shares, via the internet, some of the coo…

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Perfume Review: Montale Chocolate Greedy

I got no chocolate from Iris Ganache and was happy about it, because to me iris (and flowers in general) and chocolate simply do not go together. (One exception to the No Flowers Rule is Angel Lys. I find the pairing of white lilies and dark chocolate striking and pleasing.) That doesn’t mean, however, that I am completely against chocolate in perfume. There are select few, like the delectable

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