Sonoma Scent Studio samples and decants at The Perfumed Court

I’ll lock in the formula now and will get the first batch made and filtered.  I decided to keep the name as is; I like the name and when I ran a list of a few possible alternatives to some testers they prefered the original name, saying that the scent doesn’t have enough leather to worry about getting that…

Here’s a useful site for demonstration of correct French pronunciation of common perfume words (brand and fragrance names etc) by a Paris-born perfumista who is a professional translator. The site loads a little slowly for me when I first pull it up (possibly because of my slow “high speed” internet connection), but once the site comes up I can navigate easily…

The blog Cafleurebon has been running a series on American perfumers, starting on the Fourth of July and continuing through the year. So far they have profiled Anya McCoy, Ineke Rühland, and Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. Tonight they added a post about me and Sonoma Scent Studio. You might enjoy following the series — it tells…

Just a quick post to say the drawing for Lieu de Reves and Sienna Musk sample sets will be done this weekend and the results will be posted on the PerfumeShrine blog.  I’ll mail the samples to the winners after I receive their addresses. Update: The winners have now been posted on PerfumeShrine and I…