The perfume Chaparral is not a reference to the creosote bush, Larrea tridentata , which sometimes goes by many name chaparral, as we...

Yesterday, just as I was about to head off to the perfumery a gardener with a chain saw almost starting going at the oaks on the neighbor...

I've been diligently finalizing my paper for the proceedings of my presentation titled "The Tree of Life: A mystical approach t...

The heavy rains from last week gave our very dry earth a much needed soaking producing a few blooms in the garden. The girls have...

Monday morning I filtered the 2014 edition of Rosa liquid perfume and began listing all the variations. The wafting of the aromatic mole...

I woke up Thursday morning to the sound of chainsaws echoing through the woodland. When I hear this sound I become a bit distressed beca...

The 10th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour took place Saturday & Sunday. More than 40 gardens in the Los Angeles region,...

While prowling social media this morning I came across an interview on the Mountain Rose blog with herbalist Kiva Rose . The last questio...

The perfume devoted to the California native wild Rose, Rosa , has been nominated in an Etsy poll for "Which flowers make your garden g...

Here on this page you will find of links to my writings relating to the perfume known as Q, which includes a few reviews, in no particular ...

We love various writers for different reasons, for example I adore Phillip Pullman and Virginia Woolf as well as Patrick Suskind. Diversely ...