Seasonal changes: Summer to Autumn September 14, 2015 – Posted in: Essential Oils

Summer is a carefree and playful time, enjoying the great outdoors, sunshine being an essential vitamin E source. Autumn on the other hand offers many a calmer time yet to others an unsettling one. It’s a time where routine kicks in; it’s more structured and productive. It can get you motivated, focused and possibly start new projects but it’s also a time when it can make you feel anxious, melancholy or even gloomy. Fall also… Continue reading

My Journey (part deux) August 25, 2015 – Posted in: General

When I initially started to think about setting up my own business, I knew the Perfume industry was going to be a tough one to crack with over 11,000 perfumes on the market; it sure is a very competitive and one that would be more than a bit challenging. Being passionate in what I believe in, I wasn’t going to let this stop me from fulfilling a life-long dream. Once I returned from the ever… Continue reading

Essential oil extraction – Traditional methods with a modern twist August 17, 2015 – Posted in: Essential Oils

Whilst on my travels to broaden my knowledge on essential oil extraction, I visited all three perfume houses in the Provençal perfume capital of Grasse; Galimard, Fragonard and Molinard. I wanted to get a feel for the process of modern day extraction and see what elements of the traditional methods are still used today. Enfleurage Enfleurage is the oldest method of extraction (goes back thousands of years to the days of the pharaohs in Egypt)… Continue reading

My Journey (part un) – Posted in: General

My love for scent was reawakened in 2012, when I was drinking in a roof top garden of a swanky members club in the West End with a friend of mine. We discussed (over a number of cocktails) what I could do outside of the normal 9 to 5 job and I remembered making a scent at one of these Event Shows I had worked at in 2009. It got me thinking and by the…

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