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How to make natural perfumes

How to make natural perfumes "Making perfumes is easy", says Guy Robert to his colleagues at the prestigious British Society of Perfumers, link He details with humourism the different ways in which a perfume comes into being. A genesis of…
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How to build a folding perfumer’s organ

This organ has been designed for traveling and to allow me to keep on composing perfumes when I am away from my base, this has conditioned the choice of the materials used to build it. The organ should be as light as possible and occupy as little…
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Pyramids, lies and mythos of Modern Perfumery

From my house in Lefke. If you believe that olfactory pyramids published by the industry are meant to give you information about the ingredients or about the smell of a perfume, you are really naive. Pyramids are but a marketing tool used…
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The biggest myth of perfumery

From my house in lefke The biggest of all perfumery myths is that making perfumes is complicated, technical, and time-consuming. It is not true, making perfumes is easy, instinctive, and fast. I have never spent more than 2 hours on any of…
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Old and new myth of perfumery

From my house in Lefke Fixative ingredients are one of the strongest myths of perfumery. If what you intend by fixative is a single molecule that will smell on your skin for hours after all the rest of the perfume has disappeared, then fixatives…
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Perfumery and aromatherapy

Honoring the guest is much more than a part of the tradition of Islam, it is part of its fundamentals. During my years of traveling in the Muslim world, I have been a guest all the time. This is how I have learned the art of receiving guests. When…
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Selling perfumes

Amman, 1990 We were looking at the yachts and sailing boats from the high, it was near Palermo in Sicily. My small daughter told me: "Papi, I want to buy a boat when I am grown up". "It is easy" I replied, "you just have to sell perfumes…
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REAL PERFUMES FOR REAL PEOPLE

A perfumer who looks for inspiration inside himself is not only very limited, but he also risks ending up into an ego trip completely incompatible with true inspiration, as by definition inspiration transcends the person who receives it. I…
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Mechanism of olfactory memory

Psycho-Aromatherapy chart of Robert Tisserand A perfumer has people smell his perfumes. He never has to ask if they likes them: It is enough for him to observe and read the faces. Facial expressions are infinite and they speak like words: liking,…
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Mystic of Perfume Making

There are different ways to initiate the composing of a new fragrance, but the spirit of it should always be one; "Kodo" the Zen of perfume. In the Hebrew mystic, it is taught that all senses give pleasure to the body while the sense of smell…
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Perfumer’s perversion

I just received from South Africa a new essence that is not yet available on the international market of raw material for perfumers. The bottle had leaked a bit and the wrapping of the parcel was perfumed. The power of this essential oil…

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Natural perfumes

Why Choose Natural Perfumery? The definition of natural perfume is simple: it is a perfume made of plant or animal extracts without any other ingredient. How I become a natural perfumer I did not really choose to become a natural perfumer…