The photo above shows some Tabac bottles before they shipped out. I’m catching up with the orders that came in after the Tabac launch, and things should get back to normal in a few more days. We have beautiful warm weather here, enough to create spring fever, so I’m really looking forward to having a few minutes to get outside. It’s in the 80s today!
I’m hoping to get back to gardenia this weekend.
I’m so honored to learn that Jill of Jewel Alchemy created a scent locket necklace inspired by To Dream. It’s beautiful with two gemstones I love, amethyst and iolite. Her work is very creative and original. Thanks Jill! I’m a gemstone lover so this is especially fun for me to see (I was a geology…
I’ve been really busy keeping up with some large orders this week and haven’t had time to post or work on the new scents. Hope to catch my breath this weekend — can’t believe it’s Friday already. I’m realizing more and more how individualized our scent experience is, and how differently people experience the same…
Lieu de Reves got a mention today on the top 10 fall favorites list on NST. Thanks Jessica! It’s really tough for me to pick a top 10 fall list because so many of my favorites are fall/winter (and many overlap both seasons). Here are some of my fall faves though: Annick Goutal Heure Exquise…
I’ve added Lieu de Reves to the fragrance page, but I’ll wait to send a newsletter to announce it until Tabac Aurea is ready and will then send a newsletter about both new scents. I filtered the first batch of Reves and am glad to have the first little batch done. I always start with…
The formulas are done for all the scents on the fragrance page that have shopping cart buttons. I’ve finished tweaking those and just need to finish larger batches of some. An additional list of upcoming scents is given below that to summarize the ones in progress. Thursday night I had a power surge that got right…
Christmas orders are all mailed out and I’m wrapping presents for my own family. I’m also putting together a wholesale order and starting the end-of-year paperwork. We’ve had record-breaking lack of rain in CA, and the hills are still brown instead of their normal December green. The Black Narcissus posted a beautiful review of Winter…
That’s a great photo, Laurie. It shows off your new labels beautifully!
Thanks Nathan! Actually, I saw how cool the bottles looked all random like in your photos so I tried that myself, and this was my attempt. I think you have a natural eye for composition in photography and you’re good with lighting to make the bottles sparkle. My photos have gotten better since I made a little light box last year and got a few gooseneck lamps to shine in there and bounce the light around, but it’s hard to do bottle shots. I think if you offered photo services to perfumers you’d have a bunch of people in line! (Not that you’d want to spend many hours at that, lol.)
Are you kidding? Taking photos of perfume bottles is one of my own personal joys in life. Call me crazy, I know.
And I can see that you’re getting less afraid of allowing more light to bounce into the frame — I often see photos on perfumers’ sites and they’re usually too dark. The bottles you use have good light absorbing qualities and sparkle nicely when light is introduced. Especially natural light.
The juice inside also adds that nice glow.
I see you’re working on a Zen Musk! It sounds wonderful . . . (*he signs wistfully*)
I love photographing flowers so I can kind of relate. The photos you do of unwrapping a new treasure are always fun, and some of those bottles look really special. My bottle shots have been too dark, but I’ve been trying to work on that. The right light seems to be the secret with both flowers and bottles.
I have a Zen Musk in progress but want it smoother, so it’s been waiting for me to return to it. Gardenia is up first though…