small talk
Well, hello then!
"Niche hand-blended perfume may well be an undiscovered joy you accidentally stumble across, but I find whether or not a person actually wears fragrance to be more instinctive. Let's say 50/50 yay or nay. Happily it's unnecessary for me to convince a non-perfume-person to wear perfume, my journey is all about finding perfume-people and saying hello."
Less is more; and more is more.
"There are two ways to go with ingredients in developing a new perfume formula. Less is more; and more is more. Both are correct approaches. It’s more about what strikes your fancy at the moment; and of course just how intriguing, magical and spectacular the end result is."
One scent a day is the rule.
"Hand-blending and filling today at the perfume shop, many many bottles of my new Pineapple Musk. Just magical. Days when I fill perfume bottles precludes all other fragrance development activity. The fragrance being filled on a particular day overwhelms my senses completely from body to brain and I have to hold off working on any new formulations or tinkering with concentration levels. One scent a day is the rule."
One more rose.
"I'm hand-filling [my hands of course] my SOLIFLORE Rose de Mai perfume today, a simply lovely perfume. There are sixteen SOLIFLORE perfumes in the collection so far and I continue to be amazed that Rose de Mai is a top seller to my customers. It's beautiful - but that is a given - I would have thought though that there would be no more room in the universe for another rose perfume as there are hundreds and hundreds of rose fragrances from which to select. Here though I'm always making new batches of SOLIFLORE Rose de Mai, which speaks I think to the idea that there is always room for magic."
Let's concentrate.
"The general thinking of people who wear perfume is that fragrances with the highest percentage levels of essential oils in the final mix are superior because they are richer, project more and are longer lasting. This is a misconception, as a scent's true lasting power and character is more a function of the perfumer's selection of individual ingredients used in the initial formula recipe rather than simply increasing overall oil levels. An 8% mix in one scent can outperform a 16% concentration in another."
Accidental mix and match.
"This afternoon I refreshed with a few drops of the new Chocolate+ Hair Oil completely forgetting that this morning I applied the new Pineapple Musk Hair Oil. So I'm now rocking Chocolate+ Pineapple Musk Hair Oil. There's that."
Scented hair oil is enchanting and subversive.
"I find perfumed hair oil completely enchanting and a touch subversive. A fabulous hair treatment formula of course, but the trace of light scent early in the morning is unexpected in some way and completely enchanting. The subversive part comes later in the day or that night when after forgetting you've used the hair oil you casually touch and smooth your hair and come away again with that little jolt of sensual scent pleasure."