My last outing getting what we natural perfumers have been calling 'bee goo' (for those who care, beekeepers call the substance "floor honey") was frustrating--the guy lived several towns away, he would regularly clean out his hives and only THEN remember I'd asked for all the scrapings, etc. after he'd thrown it all away--and I ended up with a two ( Read more... )

I saw someone searching for Solstice Scents' Spellbound Woods...and since I wear Jojoelle's Spellbound Woods, I thought THAT was too close to be coincidence. I asked the ISOer what it was supposed to smell like, since SS's Etsy shop is down right now ( Read more... )

I have now officially decided this bloody thing is a book!

The top two posts to my manna_oils blog are nothing but alternate names for botanical/perfumery components! This started because as I learned what I was doing, I would realise that I could also decipher what was in a perfume. In some other perfumery company listings, you'll often see some flowery ( Read more... )

For the rest of you, I'm going to share the text of The Book of the Box of the Stynkii:

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Most creative projects fall into one of two categories: Those that just flow like water, and those that threaten to reduce you to madness ( Read more... )

Higher mathematics can be fun ( Read more... )

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Infamous and New BPAL Meme!!!

If you’re on my flist, I’d love to see YOUR answers, too!! Consider yourself TAGGED!!

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