I possibly haven’t mentioned it, but I’m a member of the Etsy Trashion Team. This is a collective of artists who reuse and repurpose materials ordinarily discarded as art, or even as further functional objects. For those of you cringing and worrying about how this works in perfumery – shhh. It’s OK. I don’t do anything scary or unsanitary. Right now I’m interpreting it as finding ways to use materials I’d ordinarily get rid of, like items sold as “natural” that were actually synthetics. [...]
I think that a lot of people just wander around on hearsay about what is and isn’t allowed by the Food and Drug Administration in the US. And to be fair, they’re a seriously understaffed government body that sometimes overregulates because they just can’t track who was doing what when the inevitable turnover happens in [...]
Actually, I’ve heard that Japan really has developed a coordinated scent-response for movies. But according to Styledash, there’s a whole other company making it happen online. I can’t figure if this is parody or not, but seriously, if it were real, my biggest hurdle in selling perfume online would be overcome – assuming it wouldn’t take me 50 years to be able to afford it… Share on Facebook
I shop at the Farmer’s Market when I can manage it (OK, once, in a downpour, and since parking is horrible, not since) and at my coop (regularly, since it’s literally a walk across the street). I do buy local whenever I can; if given a choice between blueberries from Indiana or Michigan, I choose [...]
Perfume has become a lot like wine: people talk about layers, and depth, and I’m waiting for someone to gargle from a bottle of, say, Tom Ford’s Black Orchid, spit it out and declare the hue was “off” as a cheap cover for an embarrassing alcoholism-driven act. And yet, as some of the more humble – and secure – connoisseurs [...]
I’ve had a custom request sitting neglected for weeks now. First, the request involved materials that aren’t readily available naturally – at least not in convenient forms like essential oil. So I had to wait three weeks or so to do infusions, and since I was on a tight time and financial budget, I wasn’t [...]
Craft Magazine has this link up to a survey for a designer who wants to help us make our crafting space something other than chaos space. Stop by and help her out – you’ll be helping yourself! Share on Facebook
The Independent argues the ineffectiveness of herbal treatment. I’ve learned that I have to take British journalism like I do US-based journalism, on a case-by-case basis. Still, despite the severely slanted nature of nearly all Western press, I really think that British ”objective” journalism is much more prone to smug pandering and deliberately bad information, whereas US journalism bad reporting is the result of either sloppiness or lack of time for fact checking. (Brits do it out of mean spiritedness, while the US does it out of ignorance. Equally bad, [...]
While I don’t say much about it while in Etsy Forums, I do see a complaint reiterated about the promo forum ad nauseum. While the person differs, the complaint is always the same, “I posted there but it was buried in a minute!” Sorry to sound unsympathetic, but yeah, that’s the way it happens, so if you want to succeed, you’d better adjust to it [...]
I’m seeing less of it these days, but I’m still seeing it: “We give you these perfume oils pure! Undiluted!” Countless Ebay sellers have used this exact phrasing, enticing consumers over to their particular brand of commercial fragrance imitations. These claims of undiluted oils are either false, or for reasons to be discussed, meaningless, so move on to another
seller when listings are earmarked by such hawking.
