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from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchMom’s been gone for 20 years.
There were a few things she liked, that still make me nostalgic when I smell them. Windsong eau de toilette. Devon Violets (this was something she started wearing when my great grandma was on the decline). Plain lavender. I remember her wearing patchouli when I was just a little […]
Gulhina, better with age
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchI’ve had about an ounce of gulhina attar for 4 years, and check in on it infrequently. I had to uncap and use a faint smidge when I made up another batch of Hekate recently, and it has really improved since I first got it. Maybe it was a relatively fresh attar in 2004?
Gulhina is […]
in front of the flowers
from Andy @ perfumery“may be you want to make the pictures in front of the flowers” said the wedding lady yesterday, when the W.-factor’s niece got married. It was the moment of moments, I guess, and the wedding lady (the city’s official registrar) was -of course- used to it.
Thus, there was this lovely mix between the extraordinary happening, […]
aromachology in action
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchI live near a steel mill. For years, I had no idea one was located in town, because I’d never lived in the neighborhood near it.
It was the smell that I noticed, after some years. And that’s another topic entirely, but the neighborhood associations are in a lawsuit w/ the mill because of the fumes, […]
Nelumbo nucifera, the blue one
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchI’m working on expanding my palette of heart notes, and am starting to work, slowly, with a phytonic extraction of blue lotus.
When I first began working with the lotus flower absolutes, I was reminded of really dense and sticky confections, that had a hit of floral to them. And then I managed to procure some […]
Hekate is back!
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchIt’s been on the list of ‘things to do’ for a couple months, but Hekate is finally back in the lineup alongside Demeter.
I’m hoping to add an additional unguent or eau de parfum with blue lotus as a primary note in coming months. I particularly like what it does with rose and spikenard in […]
Alla fine
from Andy @ perfumery“Alla fine, più importante delle note che scegli, è quel che ci fai, con quelle note.” (translates into something like… at the very end, much more important then the materials you choose, is what you make of them.”
That is part of what I said, translated into wonderful Italian that I love so much but do […]
Chi-Cocoa Scentsation
from March @ Perfume Posse
Join us in Chicago this fall for an incredible, decadent day of fragrance and the Universe’s favorite food: CHOCOLATE!
Patty and March from Perfume Posse will be with us as we spritz, sniff and sample our way through some of Chicago’s finest fragrance departments and boutiques, with many stops to sample …
Une retraite
from Andy @ perfumeryI forgot to tell you all in advance: I am in the French speaking part of Switzerland, close to the lake Geneva, at a retreat (in French: une retraite), with my colleagues from the company I am also working for.
The goal of this retraite: Think and work hard …
Thus, I will be back this Wednesday […]
not an allergy, eh?
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchI got a copy of the book Luca Turin authored with Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The Guide, and I was reading it on the train last week and happened upon a passage about sensitivities and allergies versus just disliking something.
Apparently a headache does not an allergy or sensitivity make. I am not sure I can believe […]
woohoo! new site and logo…
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchI had to learn DreamWeaver by the seat of my pants last week, and managed to completely rebuild my site. It is in some semblance of ‘final’ right now.
And I redid my logo; it actually has a mandrake root in it now
Mandrake Apothecary is carbon-balanced!
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchA couple weeks ago, I signed on with Terrapass in order to balance out the carbon ye olde Mandrake generates. It was not easy figuring out how much we generate, and I think this is something that makes it hard to take people seriously when they say they’re carbon-balanced or carbon neutral, or whatever.
In the […]
Calling Lilybp
from Andy @ perfumeryHurray! My begging and weeping and sniffing has helped: The Bottle on a Journey is back and the mechanic is riding his bike again.
Now, if you read this Lily: Please mail me at perfumer(at ) tauerperfumes.com. Thank you! Very much!
Here is the comment from Lilybp. ….. and the mechanic rides off again!
Beauty News NYC
from Andy @ perfumeryI am happy today.
The reason for this: The sun will shine today and Incense rosé is featured in May’s edition of the fragrance section of BeautyNewsNY.com
May starts beautiful, indeed.
enjoy
the blue phase
from Andy @ perfumeryWell, I am not an interior nor a window decorator it seems. And the area at disposition was too small for building a sand dune or placing palm trees.
Thus, we had to send the camels back.
: Circled the area at question…
We were thinking hard….
(picture shows Pascal the shop owner of Medieval art&vie thinking)
Thinking […]
less oriental 1001 and rugs and stuff
from Andy @ perfumeryTomorrow is 1st of May and on the day of work. Which means: we do not work. I think I will do some stuff nevertheless, Marx will forgive me. This, if everything goes right, I might end up decorating a corner in Pascal’s window. I mean the window of his shop. Featuring L’air du désert of […]
Read the rest here: less oriental 1001 and rugs and stuffsources
from Andy @ perfumeryI asked for a quotation in order to get the vetiver fragrance mixed and matured and diluted and matured again and filtered and delivered to my house. This translates into several messages.
First: The vetiver will come. It will be last quarter 2008, though. I need time in autumn to get things ready.
Second: It is time […]
Milano
from Andy @ perfumerySo I was in Milano this Saturday which sounds like a longer journey than it actually is. In a sense it is just around the corner, but it is Italy. Not southern Italy but Italy enough to get a good coffee, a lot of motor bikes and nice dresses and nice people.
The reason for traveling […]
The Guide: Discussion
from March @ Perfume Posse
As promised, today’s a revisit of Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, now that more of you have had a chance to read it. For my earlier review of the book, click here. I propose a free-for-all discussion of any aspects of the book that …
First time …how he folds boxes
from Andy @ perfumeryFinally, and with 1000 thanks to the W.-factor: Here it is….my appearance on the Swiss TV of yesterday. You may watch it on-line on the Swiss TV website: Archive Schweiz Aktuell (go all the way down the page and click on video)
For those of you not familiar with German: Click here (opens a […]
10 inches difference
from Andy @ perfumeryToday is wet like yesterday, the sky is grey, the rain has not stopped, in the i-pod Nicola Conte, other directions, “a time for spring” followed by “You are a my Sunshine” , with a soft irony that only I get when watching out of the train window, as I am the only one riding […]
Read the rest here: 10 inches differencewet misery
from Andy @ perfumeryYesterday was my happy e-mail day. But with e-mails it is like with cleaning up the apartment. As soon as the last one is sent, you get another one. Not that I would mind. In the contrary: The stream of mails connects me to you and the world out there. I guess a day without […]
Read the rest here: wet miserybooks and stuff
from Andy @ perfumeryI visited the Zurich shop Medieval art&vie last Saturday to stock it up with samples. [[Commercial break: TATA!
If you live in Switzerland: Please use the Medieval shop for your orders. Ordering is as convenient as it can be. Just call, send a mail or use their on-line shop. Thank you. End commercial break]]
And like almost […]
And this one’s for Kelley
from Andy @ perfumeryKelley asked me in his comment to the last post to “let all of us fans know “all” of the projects you are working on?” . I do so with pleasure.
But first: A comment on the high tech looking aluminum bottles. This note of Kelley made me think in the journalist whom I showed […]
technical difficulties
from scentedwench @ The Scented WenchSometimes I wonder if I was born under a bad sign or something.
My page is temporarily down. The webhost has been contacted. I haven’t threatened anyone yet, but who knows what the day will bring.
What is really stupid about the whole thing, is I was updating the blankety blank page and ftp overwrote […]
and this one is for Vladimir
from Andy @ perfumeryGreetings to Vladimir who asked me lately what is in those alu cans.
Well… there we go: The orange liquid in the measuring cylinder is mandarin essential oil (red mandarin), then we see rose, jasmin absolutes in smaller bottles to front-left, coriander behind the one with the “X”, the one with the red x is lemongrass […]
today is mixing day
from Andy @ perfumeryyes, indeed.
But first, after an endless seeming search for the spam injected malicious code on my blog, that made my blog dead a while ago: I think I found it. It became obvious that this blog was (like many many other word press blogs) a victim of a bad guy sending me some malicious code. […]
smiling like a happy horse
from Andy @ perfumeryFollowing the article in Schweizer Familie, I found a data CD in my letter box sent by the photographer who took the pictures. What a darling. Thank you, Tina!
In order to see more pictures made by Tina Steinauer, please follow this link to the Tina Steinauer home page and click on “Tina Steinauer”. Enjoy!
If you […]
The question of all questions
from Andy @ perfumeryWow, what a weekend. Sunny, warm and promising more for May, and I think I never boxed that many boxes over a weekend.
Which is great for several reasons: First I like to have stock these days, second I like to put bottles into boxes and flyers onto boxes and ribbons around it because it is […]
the W.-factor found the link
from Andy @ perfumeryTo be honest: I didn’t even look for a link to the Schweizer Familie article on the three perfumers.
Stupid me. But luckily there is the W.-factor who looked for it and found it. Thus, here we go: following this link you come to the text version in German of the article on Tauer Perfumes, Vero […]
TGIF
from Andy @ perfumeryThank God it’s Friday. Not that my weekend would look differently to today, though.
I am packing fragrances, L’air du désert marocain today, Lonestar Memories yesterday, l’air tomorrow and maybe some Incense extrême that I need to bottle first.
In the mean time, as I do not have more to tell you: Here’s a reading recommendation on […]
Perfumes: The Guide
from March @ Perfume PosseI’ve spent much of the past couple of weeks tucked into Perfumes: The Guide, to the dismay of the Big Cheese and my children, who kept interrupting me for trivialities like requests for food, or the location of some clean clothing. I was ostensibly issued an early copy for …
Read the rest here: Perfumes: The Guidetrying
from Andy @ perfumeryto keep up…
Today’s post is short: Just a little announcement that finally, Hurray!, the “Schweizer Familie” article with the three perfumer portraits appeared. Vero from Vero Profumo, Maurus from Luzi AG, and Andy from Tauer Perfumes. This is great news, as 1. it is very well written, 2. the picture is nice; although they did […]
Hirschmann
from Andy @ perfumeryThe newest toy in the family: A Hirschmann pumping-dispensing device: Solvent resistant (we are talking high tech ceramics!), easy to clean, hopefully lasting for semi-eternity and for the first time in use today.
Thanks to my new toy and the fragrance finally matured, the Lonestar Memories shortage should be a thing of the past by tonight.
With […]