The night and day of equal length beckons us in the Northern hemisphere to prepare for the shadow, the season of the dark and cooler tem...

The last drops of the Cimbalom synergy were used recently for a round solid perfume tin. Thus, more was made from scratch. Cimbalom is a ...

One of the biggest challenges for the natural perfumer who works with a restricted palette of botanical raw materials, is that they are r...

On this day back in the early sixties, I was born in the capital of Argentina, the port city of Buenos Aires. It was a Monday, Marilyn Mon...

It's that time of year again when I discover a bounty of the sweetly scented flowers strewn along the concrete just under where the row ...

It's Friday and the weather here in southern California is sunny and warm, finally! On this day, associated with the Goddess of love and...

From Cleveland with love, Beth has written a terrific review of Cimbalom weaved in with her special flair for flavor and great story telling...

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne, Burn’d on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The...

I've been doing these composites of photos for my perfumes lately. Above is the one I did for Cimbalom, which was sent out with the pres...

Cimbalom liquid will be formally released on the full moon transpiring Friday, October 22nd. This lunar event is often referred to as the Ha...

The winner of the giveaway for 1 gram bottle of Tangent Botanical Perfume is Katie! Congratulations, I'll be sending off the vial as soo...

The weather here in southern California has been extremely erratic. A hot day with temperatures over 100 degrees in the shade is followed by...

"Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!..." ~ Excerpt from The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore The fragrant little Pikake...

Jasminum sambac , Arabian Jasmine, is now blooming in my garden. The little white flowers begin as tiny buds which slowly unfurl their waxy ...

"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind." ~ Seals & Crofts The Jasmine sambac plants in my...

The weather has shifted dramatically here in the City of Angels. For the last two weeks we had a rather intense period of June gloom. Normal...

“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away...