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Gearing Up and Returning to the Hive
Gearing back up into perfumery should not be so hard, but somehow it IS ( Read more... ) -
Where I am on The Great Honey Project
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... ) -
Perfumer's Kazoo...
A perfumer's organ is a special set of shelves that lay out all their perfume essences in "families" similar to ranges of notes on a large organ's keyboard.
Since mine's smaller than the big, legit ones, and I keep most of my easily-destroyed essences in the refrigerator downstairs in the basement, I call mine a "kazoo":
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ANNOUNCEMENT: MOVE TO DREAMWIDTH!!
I've moved the Perfume Note Aliases and Perfumery Bibliography over to Dreamwidth, since LJ is now entirely Russian:
http://manna-oils.dreamwidth.org/
Go over there and join it. I'll post to both LJ and Dreamwidth for awhile,but eventually everything will move to Dreamwidth.Grey ( Read more... ) -
Synonyma de Nominibus Essentium: Aliases and Pseudonyms - First Half of List - Updated 09/01/10
I'm going to leave this one up 'open' and I'll add to it whenever I find more information. Eventually I'll have the tags up on one side of the blog and you can track it anytime by clicking on "aliases". - LAST UPDATED 09/01/10 - There's an ongoing "huh?" with perfumery when it comes to things masquerading as other things. Some single notes/ ( Read more... ) -
Synonyma de Nominibus Essentium: Aliases and Pseudonyms - Remainder of List - Updated 09/01/10
I'm going to leave this one up 'open' and I'll add to it whenever I find more information. Eventually I'll have the tags up on one side of the blog and you can track it anytime by clicking on "aliases". - LAST UPDATED 09/01/10 - There's an ongoing "huh?" with perfumery when it comes to things masquerading as other things. Some single notes/ ( Read more... ) -
Note: Aliases and Pseudonyms are Updated!
...I spent HOURS updating this monster! It's so big, I can no longer put it in a single post, so it's the top TWO in this LJ ( Read more... ) -
Just A Reminder...
I am still here; I've just been busier on my mundane LJ. With the weather as it has been, I've been fighting nasal/sinus congestion for MONTHS, which tends to slow down posting about perfumes. I can't always smell perfumes when I'm congested ( Read more... )
