Well this entry is going to be a little messy. For the past week I've been both working like mad and having a fairly severe allergy attack that seems now to have turned into a cold. Loving the weather. Anyway what with all the projects I've been trying to finish and the sinus medication which i finally broke down & started taking yesterday, the head is rather spinning...
But in any case, the new Premium Accord section of the website is nearly complete and should be visible on the website sometime Saturday. I'm very happy about this.
And what are Premium Accords you may ask? Well for quite a while now, I've been getting a lot of requests for certain Individual Accords in either trial size or water perfumes which I completely understand. Unfortunately since all the Individual Accords are made to order, we cannot make tiny 2 ML vials of them. And while we can and do make custom individual accord water perfumes for certain clients, the cost is QUITE expensive. People don't often realize that making a water perfume is extremely complicated and generally requires a good deal of testing & experimenting beforehand. Of course once that process is complete, we can then make batches of water perfumes which of course we do for all my ready-to-wear perfumes. But to do it for one single scent, it takes time & materials and usually winds up costing at least $125 per bottle - often more. This is fine for those who are willing and able but in general, that doesn't really fit in with my philosophy of "the best possible perfume at the best possible price".
So I've been thinking about this for quite some time and have finally come up with a solution - CB Premium Accords. I've sorted out the ten most popular individual accords and we are now making them in Premium Accord Absolutes, Water Perfumes and the very popular 2 ML Travel/Trial Absolutes. So now people will be able to spray many of their very favorite individual accords and will be able to sample a good representative selection beforehand.
There is one difference between the Premium Accord Absolutes and the Individual Accord Absolutes which I'd like to make clear. The Premium Accord Absolutes are done at a double concentration and are therefore quite a bit richer and more effusive than the basic absolutes. This has also been something I've had a lot of requests for in the past. And while here at the gallery, we often make custom concentrations for our clients, this hasn't really been generally touted on the website. Hence, the Premium Accord Absolutes. We will though continue to make the standard concentration Individual Accords for those who prefer them and those can still be found on the appropriate Accord Series page.
Now as I mentioned, I've begun the Premium Accords with the ten most popular individual accords - Smoky Tobacco, Burnt Wood, Soaked Earth, North Atlantic (lovely!), Crushed Fig Leaf, Beautiful Launderette, Old Leather, Grass, Wildflower Honey and White Ginger Flower (also lovely!). And there are a few others that I'll definitely be adding to that list a bit later in the year - Chocolate Box & Pumpkin Pie for example... I'm going to continue to keep an eye on the accords and to listen to my clients' feedback & requests to determine which new accords will be added to the Premium section in future. And I expect that each season, I'll go through my archive to find a few that are interesting but often overlooked and which would be very suitable to the time of year. That will be fun. I've been so wrapped up in blending perfumes for the past few years that even I myself sometimes forget just how many intriguing scents I've got here...
So i discovered this morning that the 2ML Travel/Trial sizes in all the Premium Accords automatically posted to the site yesterday and are now live. Those can be found under the Perfume Shop heading on the 2ML Travel Size list. I didn't realize that's the way the website is designed but that's fine. We're ready to go and have already gotten a bunch of orders which will be going out today. But the rest of the area about the Premium Accords including their Info & Shopping page, will be ready to go & live on the site sometime on Saturday. GOOD. It's been quite a process to get all that done! Still it's been entirely worth it and I hope this will make a lot of people happy!
Cheers!
CB