Sunset a few days ago

I went back to Bouquet Blanche today and made the changes I’ve had in mind for weeks. It went well and should be close to ready for testing. I’ll wear it tomorrow again to see. I have a few other tweaks I could try, but it’s smelling very nice to me this evening. My challenge…

We haven’t seen the blue sky here for days; smoke from the fires in northern California has blanketed us, blocking out the sun and the view of the nearby hills.  It’s weirdly muggy and the air smells like fire.  People are trying to stay inside to breath less smoke.  Sure hope this clears up soon. …

Thanks so much to all who joined the holiday drawing! It was really fun to read all the stories and traditions. Nice to share some holiday cheer. We had 70 entrants, so I assigned numbers to everyone and then used random.org to generate a random sequence from 1 to 70. The top number to come…

Birgit on Olfactoria’s Travels has been doing a weekly interview series with various people in the perfume field. So far she’s interviewed Mandy Aftel, Vero Kern, and Viktoria Minya. Today she posted my responses to her questions. She chose an innovative format with short sentence beginnings that we answer with short sentence endings. It makes…

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 went back to the previous popular mod of ET and decreased the musk a tad and added elemi, then I added vanilla absolute to the ET formula and eliminated the ethyl vanillin completely. I like this mod better with just natural vanilla because it adds some woodsy nuances and does not have that powdery…