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Why American Readers should read the previous post!

I realize that the previous post is very long and may appear to apply only to Europe, but it is also important to Americans for several reasons: American companies who have signed up for the safe cosmetics compact have agreed…

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Sale / use of fragrant lichen commodities to become virtually illegal in Europe?

From the forthcoming Cropwatch Newsletter & by the Cropwatch Team (with considerable help from those who have to remain anonymous). Aug 2008 Executive summary SCCP Opinion SCCP/1131/07 ‘Opinion on Oakmoss/Treemoss’ adopted at the 15th Plenary Meeting on 15th April 2008…

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Struggles of Honest Aromatic Crops Businessmen in Afghanistan

Yesterday’s ‘Morning Edition’ on NPR featured an heroic effort in the hills of Afghanistan by Shafiq Azizi and his business partners to grow and extract roses and other aromatics as an alternative for the poppy growers who trade in the…

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Perfume Politics: The Oppressive Perfumer’s Guild

Guilds are perhaps the precursors of modern trade unions, and also, paradoxically, of some aspects of the modern corporation. Guilds are actually small business associations and have little in common with trade unions. They are more like cartels in that…

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Cropwatch at the Cross-Roads

Cropwatch Statement After 4 or 5 years of continuous activity, Cropwatch has some choices to make. Do we go on the way that we have been, snapping at the ankles of those who run & regulate the aroma industry so…

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Furanocoumarins in Cosmetics: What’s all the Fuss About?

Copyright © Tony Burfield April 2008 Preamble The EU Cosmetics Commission, well known for setting the pace worldwide for (over-)-precautionary cosmetics legislation, is seemingly determined to limit furanocoumarins (FC’s) in retailed fragranced products to minutely low levels. This is because…

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Comment: The QRA – Quandaries, Reflections & Updates

Copyright © Tony Burfield April 2008. QRA – A Potted History The Qualitative Risk Assessment (QRA) methodology was recommended as a result of progress of the COLIPA Toxicology Advisory Group and the Joint COLIPA/AISE/EFFA/IFRA Perfume Safety Group, to address dermal…

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

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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aromatisches Blog - Aromatics Blog

Das aromatische Blog widmet sich den Düften und Wohlgerüchen – dem Parfüm. (The aromatic blog devoted to the scents and smells good - the perfume.) I’ve added a new blog to our perfumery blogroll: aromatisches Blog. It’s in German, but…

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The Definition of Natural

UPDATED At a webinar presented by Perfumer&Flavorist Magazine last month, there was a discussion of the definition of “natural” when used in the natural products industry, which of course includes the natural aromatic products that are the focus of this…

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Art by Women: an Equal Opportunity Manifestation?

Through the course of history, men have left a more prominent relief on the gauze that seperates present from past deeds. Even the term “history” is arguably problematic, a priori denoting a heightened importance to gender.
Expanding this thought into the realm of art and more specifically perfumery, it is easy to see that the emblematic fragrances of modern perfumery have been mostly conceived

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An Artist is an artist is an artist

…it doesn’t matter which way you look at it, being an artist is having an all consuming fire burning in my soul. Find me a true artist that relaxes while he works and I’ll find you an Irish man that can’t dance a jig for a pint of porter if he was st…

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