Jacques Zolty has launched Lily Beach, a new fragrance for women:
After the men’s fragrance, here is the feminine version of Jacques Zolty perfume, “Lily Beach”…
A parasitic mould
Try telling people that your perfume contains pungent oil extracted from a thick black resin produced by a parasitic mould and you'll probably get suspicious stares.
But refer to the pungent ingredient as oud and watch their eyebrows rise with interest.
— From As a fragrance ingredient, earthy oud breaks the mould at The Globe and Mail. Kevin is quoted in the 11th paragraph.
Grossmith Phul-Nana, Shem-el-Nessim and Hasu-no-Hana ~ new fragrances
Grossmith, an English perfume house originally established in 1835, has been relaunched by the great-grandson of the original founder working in collaboration with Roja Dove of the Haute Parfumerie at Harrods. Three of the original fragrances are now available:
Phul-Nana ~ “Hindi for ‘lovely flower’. A fresh, sweet Floral composition with Aromatic Fougère overtones on a soft, warm, woody base…”
Online natural perfumery course for 2010
Registration has begun for the next session of the Natural Perfumery course offered by Anya McCoy of Anya’s Garden.
Classes begin in February, and there are now three formats: the online interactive course, a self-paced online course, or a non-web distance learning format.
You can read more about the course here.
The Monday Mail ~ open thread for feedback, May through August 2009
This is an open thread for participants in the Monday Mail articles to share their experiences, and hopefully let us know if they found what they were looking for (or went bankrupt trying). I’m sending out emails tonight requesting feedback from everyone who took part between May and August of this year, so check back over the next few days to see what we can find out.
Here are links to the articles for each participant…