Post holidays return to work, and Sienna Musk Review

I was able to set up international shipping with UPS. For Canada, shipping for most orders would be $25 via UPS Ground, plus brokerage fees and duties/taxes. I’m told that brokerage fees for orders under $100 would be expected to be around $10, but there’s no way for me to predict brokerage fees before sending….

I haven’t wanted to mention this and jinx it before the shipment arrived, but I just received new 17 ml bottles that are an upgrade from the ones I have been using. They are the same shape and about the same size, but they have much nicer, thicker glass and they take a better spray…

Christmas orders are all mailed out and I’m wrapping presents for my own family. I’m also putting together a wholesale order and starting the end-of-year paperwork. We’ve had record-breaking lack of rain in CA, and the hills are still brown instead of their normal December green. The Black Narcissus posted a beautiful review of Winter…

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…

The Now Smell This blog featured a very nice review of Sonoma’s Velvet Rose shea cream yesterday: http://nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/6/21/3753766.html I’m catching up on orders and making two identical traveling musk packages.  I’ll post the details on that when I mail them out to the first two people Monday or Tuesday.  Should be a fun experiment! Update…