Maybe I know why people do this: avoiding skin allergies. Sidestepping smelling utterly wrong all day. Making it harder for the dogs to find them. But ultimately, sniffing a perfume out of the bottle doesn’t tell you what you need to know. To fully experience a perfume, you absolutely must try it on your skin. [...]
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I’ve been on Etsy since October of 2006. With a memory that predates Internet time perception, under ordinary circumstances I’d likely still refer to myself as a newbie. But the way Etsy is set up, I’m a veteran there. The only thing preventing me from wearing the old-timer label is that the date on my [...]
There have been a few times when I’ve mentioned using an absolute in some perfume-based conversation, to have the listener tell me later that it was assumed I was talking about tinctures. “Like you were using Absolut vodka or something.” Aside from my lack of enthusiasm for vodka – not to mention some complications involved [...]
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Every so often I get customers desperately seeking for a natural scent that “lasts.” While there are plenty of natural scents that do last for well over four hours, they are not the scents they are seeking. And even then, it comes down to expectations formed from mainstream synthetic scents, and the customer not being [...]
A lot of people ask me if I distill my own essential oils. I think with other perfumers there’s always the hope of stumbling upon a new supplier, since though suppliers appear plentiful, resource distribution and quality is spotty so often certain suppliers will have one specialty over another. Alas, I do not. Just as [...]
