The Presence of Scent and Natural Perfumery

[manna_oils]

Natural perfumery tends to be something almost ephemeral, since as the essential oils of a scent product tend to evapourate away, particularly without a good fixative. A lot of those fixatives in the past were things like ambergris, civet, musk, etc.--all things that are incredibly expensive and also animal-derrivatives from endangered species, so

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[dedra]

I found you through your enclyclopedic post about scent names and read a few of your entries. I would like to friend you, if I could--I'm interested in perfumery (although, not making my own-yet) and aromatherapy and would love to have you on my flist.

And this post was lovely. Very evocative.

[manna_oils]

Why, thank you!

I find perfumes to be all about mood and headspace...which is why we love them!

Grey :)