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• Tackling the 5 Elements

  

  My Quest for perfection is bogging me down.....I was supposed to be taking part in Monica Miller's wonderful perfume project around the 5th Sacred Thing... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Eclip

  Today I am writing about a fantastic innovation a couple of my collegues have come up with!One of the hardest battles us natural perfumers face, is that of... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY

• My First Love

  

  My first essential oil Love, was Australian Eukalyptus oil!My mother is an Ozzie, who grew up on a farm out in the bush some hours from Sydney and one of my... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Joy in January

  

  The Natural Perfumers Guild is hosting a blogathon esp. for the porr suffering people of the northern hemisphere who are currently dealing with the long, cold... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Avalon...an Adventure in Mystical Apples

  

  A few years ago, I went back to England and visited the area where the mystical Isle of Avalon is supposed to be...the coastal area around Tintagel and... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• A Scented Visitor

  

  Yesterday I had a wonderful freind drop in on her way back up north from sydney....Hanna has spent many years in the far East, and now imports a beautiful... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• New Bottles for Spring!

  

  Finally found the right bottles to package my perfume oils in!I've been looking for a while...I love the round perfume atomizers I use for the alcohol based... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• For All Lovers of Orange Flower

  

  field of bitter orange treesA few months ago I came accross an essential oil company I hadn't heard of before...A Fahkry Co, an Egyptian company that... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Alchemy for Wytchy Ways

  

  Spent a wonderful day today with the lovely Suzanne Naseby of Wytchy WaysSuzanne came up to my workshop to consult with me about creating two massage oils for... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Pan's Midsummer Night Dream

  

  I recently took part in a wonderful perfume competition, "A Midsummer Nights Dream" run by the lovely Amanda Feeley from Essentual Alchemy. The idea was to... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• "Happiness" for the "Summer of Patchouli Love"

  

  My own Offering to the "Summer of Patchouli Love" is a perfume named "Happiness".Why did I choose it for the patchouli challenge?Originally I was going to... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Peace, Love and Patchouli

  

  The Summer of Patchouli Love is finally here...Some months ago I was invited to take part in a fascinating perfume event.The wonderful Monica Miller from Perfum... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• The Creation of Pan

  

  I have submitted one of my oldest perfumes to the "Midsummer Nights Dream" competition...and as I was trying to write short desriptions of the perfume for the... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Patchouli-a Perfumers Perspective

  

  I'm writing a book about Natural Perfumery... So as part of the "Summer of Patchouli Love" project run by Monica Miller of "Perfume Pharmer" I thought I'd add... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Patchouli Summer of Love

  

  I'm delighted to be part of another wonderful perfume project, this time run by the delightful Monica Miller of "Perfume Pharmer"!It is based around one of my... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Lilac and Rose CO2

  

  Today I'm writing about some rather exciting new floral CO2's from a bulgarian company called "Ecomaat"They are a newish producer on the essential oil market,... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Cedarwood & Other Conifery Things

  

  I have recently recieved a number of new and rather interesting samples of various kinds of cedarwood plus some other conifers and scent related oils, so I... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Aphrodisiacs and Perfume

  

  http://www.perfumebynature.com.au/love_potion.htmI've been making perfumes and incense for over 20 years. And I have found that one of the most mysterieous,... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2011 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Chocolate for Xmas

  

  Well, my apologies to those of you eagerly awaiting the second chapter on natural isolates...it just ain't happening yet.I'm still tiptoeing around them, and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2010 HAIR & BEAUTY

• Natural Isolates Chapter One

  

  "Playing with the Dark Side"Well, I finally got hold of a collection of natural isolates to play with...(For those of you not in the "know" , natural isolates... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2010 HAIR & BEAUTY