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New Perfumes: Tobacco & Tulle, Honeysuckle Bird

TOBACCO & TULLENatural CollectionSizes: 4.5ml / 0.5 oz parfumOr otherwise known as the Reluctant Existentialist, An Homage to Albert Camus, This scent combines Tobacco and Tuberose Absolutes with natural animal and botanical musks. Notes include: A…

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Losing My Mind, More Free Stuff

Today is Monday, the day when I update the soivohle.com website. As I was going over the pages it hit me, like a brick upside my head that I had forgotten to add one of our sale funzies to the newsletter and the website. I had made up some complimentar…

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New Stuff on the way: Honeysuckle, Tobacco, Popsickle

Over the past few weeks I have been including in some orders samples of Honeysuckle Bird (Moderne Collection). A handful, I think got the accord but most got the parfum.I was contemplating releasing the Parfum. But wanted to do an Eau De’ Perfume as we…

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Weekend Update

Things are quiet now. But that will not last. I was up all through the night with Beacon, and could use a bit more sleep. But as I have said before I will sleep when I am dead.It has begun: The shopping season: Perhaps a more frugal season this year. E…

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Holiday Sale, New Look, Thanksgiving

Today I sent out our newsletter announcing our Holiday Sale for this year. We are extending our FREE SHIPPING and 10% DISCOUNT, to include all orders thru December 18th.NO LIMITSEverything will be deducted at checkout so you do not need to do anything,…

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Holidaze

Yesterday I made my monthly pilgrimage to Jungle Jims. A huge gourmet grocery store in Fairfield. We have been shopping at Jungle Jims since we were first married over twenty five years ago. Living in Fairfield, within walking distance from Jungle Jims…

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Update and Time Off

Tis the season, and we are swamped here at LZP. I will be taking some time away from blogging, so as to keep up with the demand of running two, make that three businesses. SOIVOHLE’ online. Zz’s Petals Boutique (our retail location) and Mr. Z’s Peace A…

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Natural, Moderne, Whatever…

I have begun without fanfare, to make the changes I spoke of concerning the Signature Collection. I guess at the end of the day it is a bit confusing to have two different collections with the same name.As we run low on scents and have to rebatch them,…

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SOIVOHLE’ Body

SOIVOHLE’ Body, (Phase I) is now available online. Which includes lotions, body wash, body oil and an Orange Blossom Cream and Toner. We will follow up at a later date with our Colognes, and and hair care products. The lotions, body wash and body oil …

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News of The Day, Sleeping Scent

I just caught myself up on the blogger.com emails. This (if you do not already know) is a website and service that sends out a daily email of all the perfume blogs who are linked to it. Scroll down our side bar here for the link to the website. Where y…

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Honeysuckle Bird

Now that I am waiting for the colognes to age, my attention is turning to other things.Honeysuckle Bird is a fragrance from my wedding scents. These are only available in the shop, yet I have been wearing this for the past few days, and am thinking of …

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Cologne Primer

Today I will be batching out the three colognes for the new Body Collection. A collection of products that range from Cologne, and Body Oil to Lotion and Body Wash. Each scent. Lavender, Ylang Ylang and Petigrain, have a full product line. I formulated…

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SOIVOHLE’ Studio Collection Sale

BIG SALE 1/2 OFFThru November 10th, or while they last. We will be making some changes in the launch of the new Studio Collection. And as a result now have a few boxed bottles of the perfumes. (promotional stock) from our intended original launch. We f…

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Holiday Offerings

For the past week I have been bottling and boxing perfumes for the holiday season. I have always come up short in the past, and want to be prepared this year. I have just bottled the last of the Domino Viole’, Writing Lyrical Poetry and Filigree The N…

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More New Stuff

Well kinda. The 5ml Petite size EDP’s are being added back to the website at soivohle.com. This was the size offered with the optional sprayer. Same item, now without the sprayer. I had a couple of these sprayers jam on me so I decided not to offer the…

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SOIVOHLE’ Body Update

Hurry up and wait. I have spent the past two days bottling product for the new Body line. But am still waiting on a couple of things, and should be able to at least batch out the colognes by this time next week.Last week in the boutique I got my firs…

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Q & A

This has been a week for questions. So I will address them all here, again.SIGNATURE PERFUMESThe list of perfumes on the website at soivohle.com is incomplete. I have been updating the shopping cart code and will have everything back (that should go ba…

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Juggling Deadlines

With so many things going on it’s hard to remember it all. I realized this morning that I would have to allow more time on the Studio Collection. I had intended on sending out our press on the 27th. I had also anticipated the delivery of one key mater…

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Website Updates

I spent the morning updating our soivohle.com website. Including the Oil Perfumes page. There are now more perfumes listed, including some of the Limited Editions. These are blends that either contain rare, hard to get materials, or blends that were c…

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Signature Scents, Oil Perfumes

I spent some time today going over the formulas to my original signature scents. I had started at one point creating an oil version of some of these perfumes, including Sunset Rider, which is the Jasomyn Oil (formula is not exactly the same) and Sinti…

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Change Is Coming

You hear it from the politicians everyday. Change is coming. They have all adopted the mantra.In our household it doesn’t matter how we vote, because there are issues on either side of the aisle, which impact both Mr Z and myself. The Globalization Ac…

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SOIVOHLE’ Body

Back before I got the brainy idea to go public with my perfumes. I had a line of body Products. “Body Basics”Mostly for bath, with bath teas, salts etc…It was a nice line. All natural and until recently available in our boutique. But I wanted to upda…

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Purple Love Smoke

I received an email this morning about this scent. It will be out in a couple of weeks, along with Remarkably Incendiary. Both are Signature Natural Parfums.The Agarwood Limited Edition will follow and be available by the end of October. I am still wor…

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Is It Real

I never gave it much thought until recently, but I guess at some level people are still somewhat sceptical of buying from Internet shops.I received an email a couple of days ago from a lady inquiring about custom perfume services. She thought the pri…

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Chicago Brief

Going to Chicago is always an event. Everything is usually smooth sailing, right up to the point where one crosses over from Indiana. For as long as I can remember they have been working on the road there, in that spot. With detours, delays, and any nu…

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SOIVOHLE’ Vignettes

Coming In OctoberSOIVOHLE’ VignettesThe most requested thing by far are custom perfumes. Many folks can not visit us in Ohio, or can’t afford the expense of a custom scent. So I have created a DIY set of accords that can be combined to make a custom pe…

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Return To Sanity

Today I went for the first time to the new Ikea store. I thought since I was adding a few items to my new consultation room, I might find them there. NOT.Not my thing, really. And the maze. If a person is not familiar with the layout, following the maz…

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Long Day

So far so good. It looks like a beautiful day is shaping up. It is sunny, not so hot (yet). and in a couple of hours I will be on the road. Why am I not running around trying to pull everything together. I did that already. I like to be prepared. So I…

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Breather

Well, I have my case packed for Chicago. Everything has been double checked, and I am ready to go.So this morning I had everything all sitting out, (packing) I had also been working in the lab until late last night, it was a mess, and Surprise!… Th…

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Politics and Perfume

I am not so political. At least I don’t feel political. I do however believe myself to be observant. And as someone pointed out to me after the Government Regs, Rant. There is a new TV commercial about, of all things corn syrup. I had read that corn sy…

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Notes, Tags, Music, Paperwork

I have been sitting here at the puter, making product tags for all of our perfumes. Mostly because I need new ones. (little folded cards to place next to the perfumes). Each card has the name of the scent and the dominant notes. I am not a big fan of …

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Out and About

It’s always fun to switch gears. After weeks of working on the new Studio Collection, finishing up private work, and getting ready to embark on a few new projects, I will have about a six week window where I will be out and about promoting our new perf…

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TGIF

I wish……..The idea of working five days and taking two off. Looking forward to the weekend. Anything is possible I suppose. We finally got some rain, It started just before sun up. A nice soft rain. Maybe not a weekend off, but the sound of gently …

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Etsy Shop Closed

The Etsy Shop is now officially closed and the oil perfumes are available on the soivohle.com website.The soivohle.com website has been completely re-done. The old one deleted and a new one uploaded. You may notice that the 5ml Petite perfumes are miss…

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Perfume, Poem, Not……..

A mystery that has been lingering for awhile has finally been cleared up for me. Every so often I receive an email requesting the perfume that I made for the Perfume In A Poem Project. I direct the inquires to the Memory and Desire Blog, and the formul…

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Hat Collecton

Today I have been wearing my cooks hat, website designer hat, and kitty mommy hat. Miss Peggy Sue, as I have mentioned was a wild pregnant female cat who came to our house to eat. Once she had the babies I captured them all and brought them inside. Now…

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Etsy Follow Up

I have had several emails about the items on the esty site. As has been the case all along, people have been requesting that items from the etsy site and our soivohle.com site be combined in one order. Over the past couple of days I have not been re li…

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SOIVOHLE Studio, Samples

I got so caught up in work yesterday I completely forgot to post this. Over the past few weeks we have been including with online orders. Samples of our new Studio Collection. Specifically the Atlas Cedar and Frankincense. Mainly because I had made up …

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More Follow Up

I got a late start this morning, not getting up until after seven. I am usually up around four, four thirty; Work for a few hours, go back to bed for an hour around eight or nine, or if that is not an option take a power nap in the afternoon, if my sch…

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Follow Up

Bite the dust……Today one of the new materials that I spoke of came in the mail. I tried it and didn’t care for it. It has the same sticky feel that I disliked in our previous water sprays. So it is back to the drawing board on this one.I will cont…

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Anticipating Success

Or an inkling of closure. I am refreshed after taking some time to myself over the weekend. Hanging out on the sofa watching tv; Movies, the food channel, reading. The success will be in the test formulations of the water based scent that I spoke of ea…

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Remarkably Incendiary

This morning I batched the first of the new Champaca Tea scent. It is named as you might have already guessed Remarkably incendiary. The full name is Remarkably Incendiary, Echo The Crashing Chandelier.And if you are wondering what all that drama has t…

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Water

The use as water for the carrier in perfumes is rare. Aside from linen sprays and light moisturizing after bath sprays, not much exists. The only person that I am aware of using water in a serious and big way is Christopher Brosius of I Hate Perfume.Un…

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SOIVOHLE’ Studio

Yesterday I wrote a bit about the Studio Vanilla (Plantifolia). And today I just want to go over some of the things that are happening now. From the image you can see that I have begun to bottle some of the perfumes, and that the bottles themselves are…

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Studio Vanilla

Vanilla is possibly the most ubiquitous of all perfume notes. It can be used as a dominant or as a modifier, and just about every perfume maker has some version of a vanilla perfume.As I have discussed in past blog posts, Our new Studio Collection is b…

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New Bottles

I have been using the Petite bottle lately for spray testers of the new Studio perfumes, and am finding that on occasion I will get one that leaks, or else the sprayer doesn’t work.When I first decided to use these I tested about a dozen and they all w…

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Bits and Pieces

Yesterday the shipment of bottles arrived for the new Studio Collection. It was pouring rain, so Mr. Z covered up the palettes of bottles with a tarp, and then placed the individual boxes in the storage building this morning.I ordered both clear and f…

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It’s August,,,,Wha…..ttt, No Way……

I can not believe how fast this summer is zooming by. Heck I just finished my spring cleaning yesterday.After days of washing slip covers for all of the chairs and sofas (still into the white shabby chic cover thingy).. Shampooing the bedroom carpet an…

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SOIVOHLE’ Road Work Ahead

Later today we will be doing some major maintenance on our website. Soivohle.comFinally after what seems like forever we are switching to a new shopping cart. Customers can choose to either checkout with a credit card, or use paypal. They are two sep…

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Basil & Sage

A common request in the boutique is for “Clean” scents. And although I have sampled a few of these lately I find them to be somewhat nondescript.When I was working on the natural colognes I came up with a Basil and Clary Sage scent that I liked, but en…

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