Drawings for Spiced Citrus Vetiver Samples

Thursday and Friday evenings (8/15 and 8/16) Jessup Cellars in Napa hosted their Dress To The Vines event. As part of the event, Mary Orlin, Huffington Post’s wine fashionista, presented pairings of SSS perfumes with Jessup wines to create an olfactory learning experience. (I mentioned the event in a post a week ago.) Sounds like…

Happy Easter to those who celebrate! My brother and his family are visiting for the weekend, and the Easter bunny will visit my nieces. I’m filling orders and hope to do a little work on formulas. I’ve not smelled the vintage inspired scent for several weeks so I can pick it up now and evaluate…

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…

We’ve been having a heat wave here for about a week. Temps have been peaking at 95-105 F each afternoon, and night temps have not cooled off like usual. It is supposed to finally cool this weekend. I like it hot, but this is a bit more than ideal even for me, especially since my…

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday. I posted this picture last year but thought it was cute and wanted to share it again this year (it’s a Christmas card we received last year from some relatives in Sweden). Hope you have a great time with family and have a chance to visit and reconnect after…

I will get back to the reformulation of ET and I have two ideas. When I worked on this before, I was trying to put in both the new moss and new labdanum, and I think I’ll keep the old labdanum instead to keep it more consistent. I also just received a sample of a…