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.
A number of Sonoma Scent Studio fragrances are reviewed today on Perfume Posse. Thanks so much for the reviews March! I’m partial to Winter Woods too, and it wears like a woodsy musk for me too. And, yes, the jasmine in Jour Ensoleillé is indolic enough to scare some people, while others enjoy that dirty…
With spring in the air here in the USA, Victoria included Voile de Violette in her Top Spring 2013 Picks on the EauMG blog. And with fall imminent in New Zealand, Kelly posted a wonderful review of Ambre Noir on The Blackthorn Orphans. Thanks, both of you!
You can head over to Cafleurebon if you’d like to enter a drawing for sample sets from SSS, Ineke, and Cognoscenti. The post is about how artisan perfumers name their scents. Naming can be hard! My side injury is feeling quite a bit better. My assistant is going on vacation soon though, and then we…
I’m batching Cocoa Sandalwood, the first of the new Sonoma Naturals Collection, and I hope to have it on the site by the end of next week. Meantime, the first review is up on Cafleurebon, and you can head over to enter a drawing for a 17 ml bottle. After the next natural is done…
I wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday! Hope you have good times with friends and family. I usually have a quiet Christmas eve with my parents, and then my brother and his family come up to visit for several days around the New Year. I’m planning to put Ambre Noir back on the site…
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! My brother and his family will be visiting. It’s always fun to see them. My older niece is learning to ride horses and is still very excited about that. The younger one starts school next year. Both keep their parents and grandparents very busy. I’m working on scent…
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…