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 | 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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by Anya | Jan 12, 2017 | Anya McCoy, natural aromatics, natural perfume, raw materials of perfumery
The Beauty of Botanicals Made Liquid – The Passion of Natural Perfumers This article originally appeared on Basenotes.net on Feb. 20, 2008 by Anya McCoy 20th February, 2008 The 21st Century Revival and Redefinition of Natural Perfume by Natural Perfumers Like...
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by Anya | Oct 29, 2015 | Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden Perfumes, Healthy perfume, Herbalism, Hydrosols, natural aromatics, raw materials of perfumery
I’ve long been obsessed with a tropical member of the Mint family Labiatae and focused on obtaining some plants of it to grow in my fragrant garden. They were harder to find than I imagined, but I got two in small pots about a year and a half ago. You can read...
