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I sent out a newsletter last night that looked fine when I sent a test message to myself, but this morning the final message that went out has smaller than normal images; I apologize if the photos of the shea cream and body lotion look small in your version too! They looked fine when I…

New Scents: The last ET tester, labeled 1-16-1, has too much cistus in it because I had tried increasing that when I decreased the musk. The cistus got too heavy so I am putting it back to the way it was in the previous tester, which was labeled 12-30-4. I’m trying less musk in that…

Turn-around time is a little longer than usual this week because of the incoming stream of holiday orders. Normally turn-around is just a day or two, but right now it is averaging 2-3 days before your order ships out. Still not bad, but I wanted to mention this so you don’t panic if you don’t…

Note: I’ve edited this post to update it now that Nancy has her own site. Nancy at Fishbone Fragrances is carrying samples and 5 ml decants of many Sonoma Scent Studio fragrances. This option is a nice way to sample if you’re already ordering there, especially if you are overseas and trying to combine sample orders…

Thank you, Gaia, for your review of Winter Woods on The Non-Blonde! It’s timely, as evidenced by the buckets of rain pouring here today. It’s very gloomy indoors weather here this week, and Winter Woods hits the spot on days like these. We’ll be batching it this Friday since I’m getting low. Winter Woods and…

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…