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Happy New Year! Best wishes for a fun New Year’s Eve and for a wonderful 2012! And a couple more thank you’s that didn’t make it into yesterday’s post. Many thanks, Ayala, for including Incense Pure in your fabulous all-indie 2011 list, and thanks so much Cafleurebon for ringing in the new year with Champagne…

You can head over to Cafleurebon if you’d like to enter a drawing for sample sets from SSS, Ineke, and Cognoscenti. The post is about how artisan perfumers name their scents. Naming can be hard! My side injury is feeling quite a bit better. My assistant is going on vacation soon though, and then we…

Wanted to wish everyone a happy Valentine’s Day. The earliest signs of spring are here: the first daffodil buds are forming, the narcissus are almost done for the winter, and buds are starting to appear on the plum tree. It’s been a mild, dry winter compared to last year’s record rainfall. Many blogs are celebrating…