Robert Tisserand, a well-respected expert in the field of natural essential oils and absolutes, has a blog post today about the way the EU decided which ingredients should be considered as potential allergens and thus disclosed on product packaging for items sold in the EU. It’s an eye-opening post, and I think you’ll find other articles of interest on his blog too. Thanks to Anya of Anya’s Garden and Anya’s Garden Natural Perfumes blog for the link.
Anya from the Natural Perfumer’s Guild and Anya’s Garden Natural Perfumes just posted about the various new gardenia extract products that are being developed — it’s an interesting post and has some beautiful photos that will help you learn the difference between the various types of gardenia. I had posted a while ago about one…
I’m making progress on all fronts here (dishwasher installation is in progress at this moment, I’m researching medical insurance, we’re hosting some family visits etc). I’m working on Amber Incense in my spare moments. I’m very appreciative to see that Robin included Incense Pure on her fall 2014 incense list yesterday along with some other…
People often assume that they must dislike something in the perfume base if they dislike a fragrance; that may be a likely possibility with oil perfumes since the oil base can often contain solvents that may have off odors to a subset of people, but it’s less likely with alcohol perfumes. The base of most…
IFRA North America has produced an educational video The Story of Fragrances that features interviews with perfumers about their work. Christophe Laudamiel’s segments are especially interesting and capture his passion for the art.
The Now Smell This blog had a discussion yesterday about the 43rd amendment to IFRA and I made a couple comments that I thought could use further explanation. The 43rd amendment keeps the usage rate for oakmoss at 0.1%, but any oakmoss used must have atranol and chloroatranol levels of less than 100 ppm. The…
The new perfume boxes just arrived and are beautiful! Yay! It’s good to have this long project completed. These are the black and gold boxes that will now ship with all 17 ml and 34 ml bottles. I’ll add a photo to the site soon, but I gave a preview on the blog about a…
As an aromatherapist, I’ve long studied and loved Tisserand. Great article; thanks for the link.
Hi Donna! His blog looks like it will be very interesting to follow! It looks fairly new and I’m glad he’ll be posting.