Thank you so much, Elena, for your eloquent review of Fig Tree on Perfume Shrine! Living in Greece, you know your way around a fig!
Lots of packages going out today because of the mail holiday yesterday. Orders were heavy this weekend but I should be caught up by the end of tomorrow.
The sweet peas are at their peak now, producing armloads of flowers for bouquets. My Mom gets many more in her garden than I do because she has the perfect spot in full sun for them and they’ve naturalized there. We cut the flowers to keep them blooming as long as possible and then let…
I went back to the previous popular mod of ET and decreased the musk a tad and added elemi, then I added vanilla absolute to the ET formula and eliminated the ethyl vanillin completely. I like this mod better with just natural vanilla because it adds some woodsy nuances and does not have that powdery…
First, I was changing some of the settings on the blog tonight, and those changes seem to have triggered an odd email to be sent out to my mailing list. I apologize for that! Second, I am aiming to put the cart back up the first week of November, but I hope to finish the…
Had my appointment yesterday and everything is going fine. Won’t be completely healed for a couple weeks, but all looks good and I’m getting back to some blending and website work. We’ll be switching to jars for the shea cream since it is just thick enough to make it a little hard to squeeze from…
I have some possible good news on international shipping. I am setting up international shipping with UPS and should be able to start sending some international packages next week. I won’t know the rates until after Monday. International shipping is expensive; it may be more economical for several people to place a group order and…
I’m working on several new scents and hope to release one of them before the end of the year. I’m going to keep the cart down for a few more weeks, but I will put samples back up for sale by early November and bottles by mid November. I’ll use the remaining few weeks of…