I’m so grateful for and happy about the nice reviews coming in for Nostalgie. Tonight a beautifully written review appeared on The Non-Blonde. Thank you so much, Gaia! Glad you liked it!
My older niece turns 13 on Wednesday — a big birthday! We’ve had oddly warm days for January and some of the roses are still blooming, along with the paperwhites and camellias. Hard to believe January is about over.
I just added Cameo back to the website. It was originally released in 2007 but I took it off the list in May 2008 when I added Vintage Rose because it seemed like I had enough rose scents. I received quite a few requests for it to return though, so I worked on a slight…
I added the boxed, carded sample set option to the Gifts page of the website over the weekend, but I still need to add the gift box option for wrapping any sets you want of 2-3 items (perfume, body lotion, body cream). I’m in the midst of taking photos for the boxed gift set options and…
I sometimes feel discouraged by how many trials it takes me to develop a new scent, but this quote by Frederic Malle about how many trials went into the making of Carnal Flower puts things in perspective: “The challenge in creating a new tuberose perfume is to get away from Fracas. Dominique Ropion and I went through 690 trials…
I have quite a few fragrance formulas to work on right now and am going back and forth between them. One is gardenia, of course, and others include the scents that need the new oakmoss. The new moss seems to work well in Winter Woods; I don’t want that scent to change much because it…
I’ve been thinking about a strategy for selling the small number of remaining old style 34 ml bottles at the old price, and I’d like to work it into a blog drawing since I don’t have enough bottles to accommodate all the orders that would likely come in. I counted and only have 30 empty…
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…