More IFRA News
Here’s an interesting blog post where IFRA responds to questions bloggers have raised:
http://graindemusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/ifras-stephen-weller-answers-grain-de.html
Tomorrow’s installment should be interesting too.
Here’s an interesting blog post where IFRA responds to questions bloggers have raised:
http://graindemusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/ifras-stephen-weller-answers-grain-de.html
Tomorrow’s installment should be interesting too.
It’s been over 100 F three days in a row, and today’s peak was 106 F on my outdoor porch thermometer. We always have a few of these heat waves each summer. I worked a bit on Lieu de Reves yesterday and Gardenia Musk today. I spent several months working on each of these last winter but didn’t finish. I’ll…
If you think it’s bad to lust after bottles of perfume, it is worse lusting after ingredients that only come in 25 kilo minimum purchases. 🙂 A 25 kilo purchase all of one ingredient is too much for me at this stage. So when I sample an item like this and fall in love with it, I…
Today’s new issue of Sniffapalooza Magazine contains an interview that I did with writer Kathy Patterson. Kathy also reviewed Vintage Rose and Champagne de Bois. You need to scroll down the page a little to find the article, but you may want to check out some of the other pieces in this issue too: http://www.sniffapaloozamagazine.com/interviews.html
I spent the day with dabs of various Gardenia Musk trials on my arms, working on other things while waiting for them to dry down so I could compare lasting power. They all smell great in the first couple hours, but it’s hard to keep the interest going in the late stages of a soft floral musk. I’ve had the…
Most of my scents have always been parfum concentration even though they come in spray form. Some other brands offer this option and label them as “spray parfum” or “extrait spray” or something along those lines. You’ll sometimes see Chanel spray parfums on ebay in containers that look a bit like lipstick tubes, so you…
I noticed a few IFRA-related things in the news recently that I thought might be of interest. Hermes is releasing a perfume by Jean-Claude Ellena called Santal Massoia. The notes sound delicious, a milky blend of sandalwood and massoia, which is a lactonic coconut scented oil produced from the bark of the massoia tree. The…