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 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 | 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 | Apr 25, 2016 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, Healthy perfume, natural aromatics, natural perfume, raw materials of perfumery
As head of the Natural Perfumers Guild, founder of the Natural Perfumery Institute, and a perfumer who only uses 100% natural aromatics in my perfumes, I am often asked about the differences between natural and mainstream (contain synthetics) perfumes. I created the...
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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...
