I thought a blog would be a good way to keep people up to date without cluttering up the What’s New page. I can give some behind the scenes details for those who are interested. I’ve been meaning to give this a try for a long time. I’m new to blogs — this is my first! I’m not sure how much time I’ll be able to spend on it, but we’ll see how it goes.
Wanted to say happy May Day! Hope you have some nice spring weather where you are! We have a sunny spring day today. I’m not wearing any scent this morning while packing orders because I’ll be testing some mods later and need to save skin space. Yesterday I ordered a new press for putting the…
I took some time today to do the first couple trials for putting the new moss and labdanum into Encens Tranquille. I want to leave this scent the same, though it would be easy to soften just a tad, which is tempting. I’ll make a couple mods and see. The level of new moss seems…
I’m about halfway through the website re-format. Still working on the rose and sandalwood scents. Just finally took a few minutes to plant sweet pea seeds. We usually do it in fall but I’m hoping they’ll still be ok doing it now in spring. They need to be up in time to bloom before our hot…
I’m running behind on getting Cocoa Sandalwood on the site, but it is coming as soon as I can. Sometimes it takes me longer to do the initial batches. I’m receiving a number of inquiries from international customers. If you have a friend in the USA who can forward the shipment to you, that is…
Wishing a happy father’s day to the Dads, and to my own Dad of course. My brother didn’t make it up this weekend after all, but they’ll probably come another weekend soon. My brother is a great Dad to his two young girls, but he has a tough act to follow with our Dad. 🙂…
A post today on the blog Grain de Musc discusses new developments in the IFRA story. Guerlain’s in-house perfumer Thierry Wasser and Dior perfumer François Demachy were quoted in the January 13 edition of France’s Le Monde newspaper about the difficulties of maintaining their beautiful historical fragrances under IFRA rulings. These public statements might be…