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CleanWell’s Ginger Bergamot Foaming Hand Soap Reviewed - fragrance formulation by Mandy Aftel

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

CleanWell, a Benefactor Member of the Guild, teamed up with Guild founder Mandy Aftel last year and released several products including a foaming hand soap that contains a component dubbed Ingenium, described as “a patented formulation of essential p…

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May 17, 2008 | Filed Under , CleanWell, Ingenium, mandy aftel, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Mandy Aftel at the WFFC Last Week in P&F Newsletter

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

Mandy Aftel, founder of the Guild, gave a presentation at the Women in Fragrance and Flavor Commerce at the offices of Mane in NYC last week. You can read about it here in the Perfumer & Flavorist newsletter

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May 13, 2008 | Filed Under , mandy aftel, mane, perfumer and flavorist, presentation, womenin fragrance and flavor commerce | Comments Off 


Mandy Aftel Interview on Beauty News NYC

from Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild

Natural Perfumers Guild founder Mandy Aftel shares a lot of secrets and insights in her latest interview on Beauty News NYCMandy is particularly happy that the Guild logo is featured prominently at the beginning of the interview titled “A Beauty News E…

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May 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Natural Perfumery, beauty news nyc, bendels, mandy aftel, 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 

Most Beautiful Perfume Bottles..

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

Aren’t these the most lovely perfume bottles you ever saw! Not only are they lovely but they are filled with gorgeous natural perfumes by Mandy Aftel! I am a big fan of her perfumes and her botanical perfumery ma…

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Natural Perfumery, Tango, mandy aftel | 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 

Pulling the pieces together

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

Having struggled hard over the last few evenings, making concoctions that smell nothing like I want them to, a penny dropped this morning. I had been reading the Secret of Scent by Luca Turin and, in the book Mr Turin goes into great detail about the d…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Natural Perfumes, luca turin, mandy aftel, orchid | Comments Off 

Perfume Class with Mandy Aftel at Bendels, NYC May 8, 2008

from The Natural Perfumers Guild @ *A Natural Perfumers Guild*

HENRI BENDEL INVITES YOUTO AN INTIMATE EVENINGWORKSHOP WITH RENOWNEDNATURAL PERFUMERMANDY AFTELMeet Mandy as she presents a step by step fragrance tutorial blending hand-crafted perfumes.Create your own unique, artisan perfume using Mandy’s suppl…

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April 13, 2008 | Filed Under , Natural Perfumery, bendels, mandy aftel, natural perfume, perfume 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 

The Emperors New Perfumes

from Zita @ + A Natural Perfumers Journal White Witch®

Remember that story of “The Emperors New Clothes” by Hans Christian Anderson? The two tailors said about their work, “we are two very good tailors and after many years of research we have invented an extraordinary method to weave a cloth so light and …

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March 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Natural Perfumes, Strange Invisible Perfumes, mandy aftel, old wizard, white witch | Comments Off 


Perfume Inside a Poem - Coaxing it to Life

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

Dreamscape(no, this is not the Memory & Desire submittal, it’s a graphic I made for my perfume Riverside)Last Saturday the 9th I got an email from Heather of Memory and Desire blog. It was in response to a post I had made on the blog about ambergri…

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March 16, 2008 | Filed Under , dream, ezra pound, inspiration, lisa fong, mandy aftel, memory and desire blog, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

Fun new hobby with a fun story behind it

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

Last week I found out about a floral designing class taught by Miami’s most respected florist, Israel Sands.He has a show in Latin America (scroll down to read about him) where he shares his skills, but I believe this was the first extended course he’s…

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February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Israel Sands, National perfumers guild, berkeley, floral arranging, hobby, mandy aftel | 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 

Natural Perfumers Guild Founder Mandy Aftel featured in San Francisco magazine

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

There is a clickable link on the Natural Perfumers Guild News page of a jpg of the article in SF magazine. Now to ask Mandy what that scent strip holder is — I’m intrigued! It’s a great article and as usual, wonderful PR for natural perfumes, because …

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February 1, 2008 | Filed Under mandy aftel, natural pefumers guild, san francisco magazine | 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 

Perfume Review: Aftelier Tango

from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog

“Oh, Orlando!
Remember the night we danced
quietly on the sands where music
was played? Your words were
wonderers, said quietly
in the pockets of my ears.”
Dancing Tango by Sheema Kalbasi

Tango by Mandy Aftel is perhaps one of the most unusual fragrances I have tried this year. One of a few that really, really touched something inside me, that made my heart beat faster in excitement and strange,

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October 3, 2007 | Filed Under Choya Nakh, Smoky Scents, mandy aftel | Comments Off 

CleanWell and Cleaning Well Naturally

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

I’ll be guest blogging next month on the A Better Way to Clean pages on my perceptions of how a natural perfume or naturally-perfumed product is perceived by the American public. A Better Way to Clean is blogged by Dr. Larry Weiss, the driving force be…

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August 29, 2007 | Filed Under CleanWell, larry weiss, mandy aftel, natural perfumers guild | Comments Off 

London Calling…part 4: at Roja Dove’s place

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

When one is faced with greatness it manifests itself in no uncertain terms. Awe, amazement and a feeling of having tingles down the spine greet you upon entering one of the sacred altars of perfume, Roja Dove’s Haute Parfumerie on the 5th floor of Ha…

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August 20, 2007 | Filed Under Caron, Diptyque, brosseau, christian dior, daltroff, emslaved, harrod's, haute parfumerie, larmes sacrees de thebes, london, mandy aftel, new scents, roja dove, scandale, unspoken | 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 

Perfume Stars: Summer Favorites. Part 4

from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog

In Part 4 of Perfume Stars it is my pleasure and an honor to share with you summer favorites and ideal holiday destinations of some of the most talented women perfumers and perfume line creators. We start in the USA…

Mandy Aftel, Aftelier

What are your favorite summer fragrances? What are the characteristics of your ideal summer scent?

In a phone interview, Mandy Aftel told us that she gives

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July 31, 2007 | Filed Under Delrae, Jalaine, Perfume Stars, Sarah Horowitz-Thran, Yosh, mandy aftel | Comments Off 

Tango

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

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June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Aftelier, Champaca, Choya Nakh, Leather, Perfume Review, Tango, mandy aftel | Comments Off 

Cognac and the “Mesique”

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

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June 19, 2007 | Filed Under Aftelier, Autumn, Cognac, Cognac Absolute, Olive Absolute, Perfume Review, mandy aftel, natural perfume | Comments Off 


Mandy Aftel and Christophe Laudamiel in Flare Magazine

from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery

It’s just very exciting and amazing that the natural perfume industry, a tiny 1% (perhaps) of the perfume market, garners such attention. Five years ago there was practically no press. Now, international publications and blogs are picking up on the inc…

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April 5, 2007 | Filed Under Aftelier, IFF, Pink Lotus hydrosols, christophe laudamiel, flare magazine, mandy aftel, natural perfume, natural perfume attention IFF Aftelier Pink Lotus hydro | Comments Off 

Floral Fragrances for Winter

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

One of the most uplifting things that can happen in Winter is to come inside from a grey dreary cold day into a warm room that has a large fresh fragrant floral bouquet, or to run into someone wearing a wonderfully floral fragrance. I was fortunate eno…

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February 2, 2007 | Filed Under creed, jasmine, jo malone, l'artisan, mandy aftel, roses | Comments Off