Finally I had a long weekend, I had 4 days off! I looked forward to it the whole week, but when it finally was there, I got sick…… I had a terrible cold and was so sleepy that I could sleep for hours, I only watched some TV or sat behind my PC a bi…
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March 2nd, 2008 — , My perfume creations and experiments, The world of a hobby perfumer, Thoughts from Jenny @ Perfume making
Far away, yet so close
February 27th, 2008 — , The world of a hobby perfumer, Thoughts from Jenny @ Perfume making
This morning I was reading the post on Andy Tauer’s blog. He wrote about how the Internet brings so many people close to each other. And I can’t agree more, it’s amazing how many wonderful, beautiful, interesting, inspiring, creative, lovely, sweet, ca…
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January 27th, 2008 — The world of a hobby perfumer, Thoughts from Jenny @ Perfume making
It’s strange that sometimes when we smell something, we can’t find the right words to describe what it is. We have the feeling that we should know what it is, because it smells familiar, but if we search in our brain to find the answer the answer comes…
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October 14th, 2007 — My perfume creations and experiments, The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
Sometimes people ask me, what it is that I do, how I make perfume. If I tell them that perfume is alcohol with aromatic materials, a lot of times I hear the same story. They tell me that when they were little they put roses in water trying to create pe…
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September 23rd, 2007 — The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
I heard about the Monclin before, it sounded fascinating, but wasn’t doing much with the information. The first time that I read about it was on Luca Turin’s blog. You can see two Monclin’s on the photo above, they look like two wine glasses putting u…
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June 28th, 2007 — The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
Yesterday me, my husband and a friend of us, went to an orchid farm. It’s an orchid farm but also a tropical garden that you can visit it has waterfalls, little houses, bridges etc, and of course lots of orchids. I was curious to find fragrant orchids…
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June 25th, 2007 — The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
A mistake I made when I first wanted to create perfume, that was in 1998 or 1999 I think, was that I used too many materials, all in small and about the same amount. So too much of everything basically. None of the materials were standing out, it was …
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June 17th, 2007 — The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
Here in the Netherlands we had some rainy days lately, but gladly it’s dry in between as well. Last night we had a birthday party of my girlfriend and the whole night it was dry so we could sit outside in the garden. We sat outside until half past 4 in…
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June 3rd, 2007 — My perfume creations and experiments, Perfume ingredients, The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
The flowers around me are so inspiring these days. I can’t get enough of smelling all these lovely fragrances. A lot of flowers are blooming in my garden and I can’t resist to smell them every time I pass by them. When I smell them I wonder in my head …
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April 16th, 2007 — The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
I finally cleaned up my perfumery room and arranged all my materials again. I placed another cabinet on the wall because I didn’t have enough space for all the materials anymore. I also cleaned up the closet where I keep all my materials. I made some p…
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March 28th, 2007 — Perfume ingredients, The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
How can bad, stinky smells turn into something wonderful smelling? In perfumery we not only use delicate wonderful smelling components, we sometimes use very stinky components too. For example Jasmine is a wonderful smelling flower, it’s one of my fav…
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March 2nd, 2007 — My perfume creations and experiments, The world of a hobby perfumer from Jenny @ Perfume making
On my Yahoo group: Perfumemaking we are doing ‘perfume swaps’. In January we did our first swap, we sent each other our own created perfumes to get feedback from each other, this is real fun because we are very curious about the creations of each other…
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