by Anya | Apr 16, 2018 | Anya McCoy, DIY, enfleurage, Healthy perfume, Homemade Perfume book, How to Make Perfume, Hydrosols, natural aromatics, natural perfume, raw materials of perfumery, study perfumery
I’ve spent over forty years extracting fragrance from plants, blending those extracts and purchased essential oils and other fragrant materials into perfume. Not just perfumes, but also sprays, body butters, and bath and body scented products. With the... by Anya | Jan 10, 2018 | Anya's Garden Perfumes
Forty years ago, my husband got funding for his PhD under the USA Department of AID. In return, we were going to move to Dakar, Senegal for a few years to pay back the money for the education. I was studying plant science, ethnobotany, and anthropology at the time,... by Anya | Jan 7, 2018 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, Healthy perfume, How to Make Perfume, Hydrosols, study perfumery
Perfumers need to be savvy about how to provide a safe product to their customers. Perfume bottles and lab equipment can arrive from the factory with contaminants such as dust, bits of odds and ends (like paper), pesticides (from warehouse spraying) and other assorted... by Anya | Nov 27, 2017 | Anya's Garden Perfumes
The biggest sale of the year, and the chance to stock up on 100% natural perfumes for yourself, your friends and family. Use the code cyber40 at checkout for the 40% off discount! Sale items on this page only. Strange Magic – exotic and unique, made from... by Anya | Nov 18, 2017 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, How to Make Perfume, natural aromatics, natural perfumery course, Natural Perfumery Institute, raw materials of perfumery
How Autumn got Trashed by Hurricane Irma This was going to be most heartfelt newsletter I’ve ever sent because I want to share the events of September and October and explain why I’ve been so quiet. Yes, I kept posting on Facebook, but behind the... by Anya | Nov 2, 2017 | Hydrosols, raw materials of perfumery
I purchased my first hydrosol in 1989, a lovely gallon of Rosa damascena from the May 1989 Turkish harvest. The well-known aromatherapist must have given direction on storage and use, but I don’t recall them. I still have some of that hydrosol, archived for... by Anya | Nov 2, 2017 | How to Make Perfume, natural aromatics, natural perfumery course, Natural Perfumery Yahoo group, raw materials of perfumery
In 2003, a member of the Natural Perfumery group I host on Yahoo got in touch with the folks at Allured Publishing (Now Allured Business Media) and asked them if they could make the Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (PFMNO) book available aside from the... by Anya | Jun 18, 2017 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, Healthy perfume, How to Make Perfume, natural aromatics, natural perfume, raw materials of perfumery
STRANGE MAGIC PERFUME A perfume of color changeable tinctures from an organic garden in Miami, Florida. Read about a giveaway of this perfume, below. Sustainable, cold-process extraction process of plant fragrance debuts Launched May 31, 2017 Anya McCoy, perfumer,... by Anya | May 3, 2017 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, How to Make Perfume, natural perfume, natural perfumery course, Natural Perfumery Institute
Strange Magic Perfume Strange Magic is inspired by the color magic of the flowers I grow. I have spent many years gathering the rare tropical flowers that provide fragrance and beauty in my organic garden in Miami, transforming them into strongly-scented tinctures.... by Anya | Apr 2, 2017 | Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden Perfumes, How to Make Perfume, natural aromatics, natural perfume, natural perfumery course, Natural Perfumery Institute, raw materials of perfumery
I started collection essential oils and absolutes in 1966. At the time, I didn’t know my bottles of aromatics were supposed to be arranged on a tiered shelf called a perfume organ. Because I was a botanist, I categorized them by the part of the plant they were...
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