...t evaporates quickly, dries the skin & hair and is highly flammable. Oil & water are what the skin naturally needs to hold fragrance the longest – I use those as the bases for all my per...

I hate perfume. Perfume is too often an ethereal corset trapping everyone in the same unnatural shape A lazy and inelegant concession to fashionable ego Too often a substitute for true allure and styl...

...y a matter of deciding just what things… Later that spring, a friend suggested that I read “A Natural History of the Senses”. I found Ms. Ackerman’s first chapter on the Sense...

...I have refined my collection of accords & expanded it to include many new scents and a great many more natural materials. Part of my mission is still to capture every possible pleasant scent. I&...

...in case I don't have time later on... It's been a good year here and overall I'm very happy with it.  Naturally there have been problems and challenges (not the least of which has been the "...