Re: TOTD 112508: how long involved

[Guest guest]

> How long have you been interested in natural perfumery and how did

> you get started?

About three years ago I came across Essence & Alchemy. I was quite

literally shocked to discover that the fragrances I loved were

synthetic--and more to the point I had been lied to. A longtime whole-

foods person, there was never any question for me about natural or

not. I quickly enrolled in Mandy Aftel's level-1 course and just as

quickly put it on hold. Not that I put perfumery on hold, just the

opposite; I jumped in and began my own investigations and

experiments, and began making perfumes early on, slowly acquiring

more and more essences. I still have nothing like the array of, say,

Anya, but I've got a couple of hundred anyway, in at least sample

size, many in larger sizes. Jumping in headlong is the way I do

things, always has been. I'm almost ready now to finish off Mandy's

course. I've been every kind of artist and consider perfumery the

ultimate art, my final frontier.

[Guest guest]

I started studying essential oils almost 3 years ago, off and on. It

started as an aromatherapy course by Jeanne Rose and evolved from

there. Not long before I started the course I lost my mom to cancer. I

looked to aromatherapy as a way to calm my nerves and help to relax

enough to sleep at night. After trying a blend I found in an

aromatherapy book, that contained rose and jasmine, I realized I was

more interested in scent than the therapeutic value of the oils. From

there my interest shifted to natural perfume. Just winthin this last

year have I put more time in learning about different oils.

[Guest guest]

, do you think that you were drawn naturally to those because they would

have that affect on you and then you persued it to this point?

 

I know that some scents I cannot be around. Some have a calming effect on me but

according to the books..they should have a different effect than what I happen

to feel with a scent.

 

I have heard that jasmine and mimosa flowers are narcotic. I had three mimosa

trees and never found them to have scent but I've had people tell me to be

careful with making things with mimosa because it is narcotic.  I know there

is a soap for the face made from mimosa.

 

OH CRUD.....I FORGOT I WON ONE ON EBAY.........zoooooooooooooooooooom

[Guest guest]

Adam Gottschalk wrote:

> Evie asks:

>

> How long have you been interested in natural perfumery and how did

> you get started?

>

Hi Adam, Evie and Folks..

Back in the early 90's became interested in this new (to me) thing

called aromatherapy....

Since I was playing around with smelly essences, almost exclusively

essential oils, the thought of making nice smelling perfumes did cross

my mind occasionally.....

Never went anywhere much with perfume....but learned a lot about EOs,

handling them, diluting them, solubilities, etc.....as well as acquiring

a fair sized assortment of the EOs themselves...a few absolutes, etc.

One day, Anya, the ListMom, sent me an invite to join her new perfumery

list.....

I dabbled around for a long time.....and then I got a copy of Mandy

Aftel's 'Essence & Alchemy'....

Until then, you could say I was a Gatttefossian AT person, with an

interest in NP....

I became a NP person with an interest in AT, from that point on...

The NP List (thank you, ListMom) opened up a new realm, and E & A brought

some order into chaos....

--

W. Bourbonais

L'Hermite Aromatique

A.J.P. (GIA)

BTW......I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving...the Holiday Season

is upon us....!

[Guest guest]

> > Evie asks:

> >

> > How long have you been interested in natural

> perfumery and how did

> > you get started?

> >

>

> Hi Adam, Evie and Folks..

>

> Back in the early 90's became interested in this new

> (to me) thing

> called aromatherapy....

> as acquiring

> a fair sized assortment of the EOs themselves...a few

> absolutes, etc.

> Aftel's 'Essence & Alchemy'....

>

> Until then, you could say I was a Gatttefossian AT person,

> with an

> interest in NP....

>

> W. Bourbonais

> L'Hermite Aromatique

> A.J.P. (GIA)

>

I am so happy to hear you on the web. Like you I was interested in Jeanne

Rose who was a translator of Gattefosse (OK didn't get the book yet) and also

Mandy Aftel.

Jeanne for herbs healing and cures, Mandy for perfumes.

I am happy to tell you that I did interviews with both ladies on my Public

Access Program " HEADS UP!Berkeley, Bay Area " (betv.org) and you are supposed to

be able to see it on line but I haven't figured out how, when I do I'll tell you

all.

Many Happy days of Thanksgivings to all of you

love your fragrances

Bb in Berkeley,ca

[Guest guest]

>

> Evie asks:

>

> How long have you been interested in natural perfumery and how did

> you get started?

Hi Folks,

I've been interested in herbs healing since I was a teen, some year

later I discovered EO and the world of natural perfumes. I started

buying EO for healing and aromatherapy (though I'm not an

aromatherapist or an herbalist), then for create NP, in the same time

I read (and I'm reading now, never loose the pleasure of reading and

learning))many helpful and interesting books, Mandy Aftel's " Essence &

Alchemy " too.

Nadia