by Anya | Jun 1, 2012 | Natural Perfumers Guild
Fan carved from sandalwood Santalum album – even the botanical name is beautiful and strong. If rose and jasmine are feminine, sandalwood is strongly, sexily, masculine. All male. And I fell hard for “him” from the first sniff. Here’s my decades-long...
by Anya | May 17, 2012 | Natural Perfumers Guild
Get a cup of coffee or tea – this is a long blog post, with lots of twists and turns and surprises – good surprises! Please see the blog post yesterday on the Guild member vote on the definition of natural isolates if you have not already read it....
by Anya | May 15, 2012 | Natural Perfumers Guild
The Natural Perfumers Guild, the world’s largest organization for natural perfumery, is defining the scope of natural aromatics in accord with the vision of our art. Natural isolates are aromatics consisting of odor molecules from natural materials. Members voted on...
by Anya | Jan 29, 2012 | Ask the Perfumer, Natural Perfumers Guild
A busy Sunday is in store: tying up a zillion loose ends for the Love the Guild project, still thanking all the respondants on Facebook who replied with love and loyalty to the statement below, planting veggies, visiting mother and giving up on my mimosa enfleurage...
by Anya | Jan 25, 2012 | Natural Perfumers Guild
Sharing Their Story – an occasional series hosted by Anya McCoy. Featuring the accomplished and creative members of the Natural Perfumers Guild, the series is debuting with one of the lights of aromatherapy, and a pioneer in natural perfumery, Victoria Edwards...
by Anya | Jan 17, 2012 | Giveaway, Natural Perfumers Guild
Joy in January – a three-day blogging event to help you deal with your SAD-ness this month. If you’re reading this on the second day of the three-day blog event, you can read my initial post about SAD and scents here. When I moved to Syracuse, New York in...
