I'm here to answer your questions about natural perfumery until later tonight. Don't forget to check the box so that you'll get a notice when I answer. For fun - here's the image of most of the Bonus Modules that my students get when they enroll in my Basic perfumery...
Yellow ylang ylang flowers turn the tincture green, and get darker with each recharge. The scent is very, very strong! Beautiful. Hi Everyone!I'll be here until later today, early evening, to answer your questions about perfumery, natural perfumery, to be exact. If...
Time to revive this much-loved give back I provide to the perfume community. I'll be here until 10 PM Miami time.
Making Perfume: Working with Thick and Pasty Aromatics I have been working with perfumery aromatics since 1976. That's the year I began to seriously study perfumery with the aid of a few rare books and the assistance of two retired perfume industry sales...
Essentials pictured above very useful, but not an exhaustive list represented here in this photo. More perfumemaking tools are shown below in this post. PHOTO: stainless steel tray for surface protection when pouring, filling bottles, etc. Stainless steel measuring...
In my professional making perfume course, I instruct students in the art of perfumery from the first drop to the final product. There are many bonus modules for fragrant products, including potpourri, body butter, scented body powder, enfleurage, and many more that...
My latest newsletter contains reviews of my new book Homemade Perfume, a book giveaway on a blog, and info on my professional perfumery course. You can purchase Homemade Perfume here, either a Kindle version or paperback. In Homemade Perfume, I instruct you on how to...
This has happened several times during the pre-sales time frame on Amazon - Homemade Perfume made it to #1 in Aromatherapy (and a few times in Nature Crafts, too)! Thank you for your support in pre-ordering my book, and I got word today that even though the release...
Homemade Perfume will be published July 31, 2018! You can preorder now and lock in the price. http://amzn.to/2HG7Bhs This unprecedented, comprehensive guide from renowned perfumer Anya McCoy is an inspiring resource for anyone interested in creating...
So many jasmines, so much fun! You can do this with any non-toxic, organic fragrant flower you have in your garden, and the tasty syrup is fabulous in cocktails, drizzeled over ice cream or cake, or anything you can think of! Pick the flowers when they're at the...
I've spent over forty years extracting fragrance from plants, blending those extracts and purchased essential oils and other fragrant materials into perfume. Not just perfumes, but also sprays, body butters, and bath and body scented products. With the...
Forty years ago, my husband got funding for his PhD under the USA Department of AID. In return, we were going to move to Dakar, Senegal for a few years to pay back the money for the education. I was studying plant science, ethnobotany, and anthropology at the time,...
Perfumers need to be savvy about how to provide a safe product to their customers. Perfume bottles and lab equipment can arrive from the factory with contaminants such as dust, bits of odds and ends (like paper), pesticides (from warehouse spraying) and other assorted...
I purchased my first hydrosol in 1989, a lovely gallon of Rosa damascena from the May 1989 Turkish harvest. The well-known aromatherapist must have given direction on storage and use, but I don't recall them. I still have some of that hydrosol, archived for decades in...
In 2003, a member of the Natural Perfumery group I host on Yahoo got in touch with the folks at Allured Publishing (Now Allured Business Media) and asked them if they could make the Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (PFMNO) book available aside from the...
STRANGE MAGIC PERFUME A perfume of color-changeable tinctures from an organic garden in Miami, Florida. Read about a giveaway of this perfume, below. The sustainable, cold-process extraction process of plant fragrance debuts Launched May 31, 2017 Anya McCoy, perfumer,...
I started collection essential oils and absolutes in 1966. At the time, I didn't know my bottles of aromatics were supposed to be arranged on a tiered shelf called a perfume organ. Because I was a botanist, I categorized them by the part of the plant they were...
I have been busy with new perfume labels and decided to try some new photos. I typically like a clean white background, and I may do that for the new website, but for this photo I decided to capture some sunlight with the back garden included. I'm very happy with the...
The Beauty of Botanicals Made Liquid - The Passion of Natural Perfumers This article originally appeared on Basenotes.net on Feb. 20, 2008 by Anya McCoy 20th February, 2008 The 21st Century Revival and Redefinition of Natural Perfume by Natural Perfumers Like everyone...
Jasminum auriculatum and Jasminum azoricum There are ten species and cultivars of jasmines in my gardens, and I want to share information about two very rare ones that are particularly rewarding. Jasmine auriculatum is a vine/bush with heady, green, sharp,...
As head of the Natural Perfumers Guild, founder of the Natural Perfumery Institute, and a perfumer who only uses 100% natural aromatics in my perfumes, I am often asked about the differences between natural and mainstream (contain synthetics) perfumes. I created the...
