Wishing all of you a very happy holiday with friends and family, however you celebrate. I’ll spend Christmas eve with my parents and will see my brother and his family for New Year’s weekend. In between, I’ll release the new Pacific Forest. 🙂
I appreciate all of you more than I can say. May the new year bring you lots of good things, and may the holiday spirit of peace, joy, and gratitude be with you throughout the coming year!
Wow, it was in the upper 90s today! I ran some errands and it was a hot one. Last evening was warm but not quite as hot and we had gorgeous light on the hills. I took the quick snapshot above off the back deck; it’s hard to give the feeling but my cottage is on…
Hope everyone had a great three day weekend and the first week of school is going well. Having Monday be a holiday means I don’t ship that day, which gives me an extra morning not to be worried about beating the noon mail pick-up with my outgoing packages. My brother’s girls are back in school;…
Sonoma Scent Studio got a brief mention in the LA Times Magazine on Sunday in a very well-written article about fragrance for men. Previous installments of the column have been popular so it will be a monthly regular (on fragrance in general, not just for men).
New Scent: The new floral scent is done and I am scaling up, making larger batches. I’ll put the webpage for the new scent online in one week. Samples will be available then, and bottles will be available shortly thereafter. This is the floral scent that I have mentioned a few times here, though I’ve…
I just received a notice from Amazon that the back-ordered book Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena has shipped. It’s now in stock if it interests you. I can’t seem to give a link without it putting you into my Amazon account, but it is easy to find on Amazon. Also, Now Smell…
I’ve been too busy to work on gardenia for about a week, but I left off at an interesting point and just picked it up again tonight. I’m always amazed how much good it does to put something down for a week after intensely working on it for many days — it really wakes up…
Happy Holidays, Laurie! All the best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks so much, Undina! Happy holidays to you too!