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.
I’ll lock in the formula now and will get the first batch made and filtered. I decided to keep the name as is; I like the name and when I ran a list of a few possible alternatives to some testers they prefered the original name, saying that the scent doesn’t have enough leather to worry about getting that…
Jour Ensoleille is on the site now. It’s a woodsy floral with tuberose, orange blossom and jasmine on a base of oakmoss, sandalwood, vetiver, labdanum, and green leaves. It has a bit of a chypre or vintage feel to me (minus the bergamot and coumarin), and makes me think of late summer or fall. We…
The month of February 2009 is the 5th anniversary of the Sonoma Scent Studio website. I’ve focused on building a fragrance line of woods, florals, incense, musks, and woodsy gourmands. I still have lots of work to do but have made good progress on the website and packaging over the years. I greatly appreciate the support the fragrance community…
I have sent out some testers of Fig Tree and will send some more. Notes include fig, plum, cassis, galbanum resin, fir absolute, East Indiana sandalwood EO, vetiver, tonka, lactones. It is greener and fruitier than anything I’ve done so it’s been fun to formulate. It’s unisex and I think it should work in lotion…
I’m busy with orders and working on new scents as I can. Still waiting for the drywall man to come back and make the final repair so I can put everything away again. I love the new closet doors though! I try to squeak out all the storage space I can. I’m trying the new…