Happy New Year from the oak woodland in Topanga State Park! Time is perceived linearly, associated with duality, such as beginning and endin...

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 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 creation of a thousand forests are in one acorn." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The rain from the last few days has caused quite ...

Moonday greetings to you on this auspicious day related to the silvery round lantern in the sky that gravitates toward the forces of the Ear...

Q stands for Quercus agrifolia the botanical name for the coastal live oak of California. At this time of the year the oaks are very heavy ...

Once there were four large oak trees and three smaller ones in a grove and they loved a girl. And everyday the girl looked out at the trees ...

The fruit of the California live oak, the acorn, matures between August and October. From there, if conditions are right, a little sprout wi...

"Immediately upon entering her house, your nose is filled with an indulgent spectrum of aromas. Verdant, musky, sweet smells enter your...

"With foot beat of the swift Oak, Heaven and Earth rung, Stout guardian of the door, His name on every tongue." ~ Gwion The circul...

Thursday is named after Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. This dense gaseous mass in astrology is associated with luck and ex...

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 ...

A review of Q, our perfume devoted to the splendid California Coastal Live Oak, is up over at Perfume Smellin' Things. The magical myste...

On planet Earth today we celebrate the trees! Those beloved beings that give us oxygen, shade, fruit, wood, and provide homes to many creatu...

For the scent of the next few days I'm choosing Q, the botanical perfume devoted to the Coastal Live Oak of California. The Celtic tree...

"Our sympathy and antipathy works on the etheric body. We can easily see this through ordinary observation. We know that the etheric bo...

In Perfumery terms we refer to the heart note, or middle notes, as the scent of a fragrance as it evolves from the initial hit of the top n...

I became conscious of working with magic in the nineties when my daughter Eve was about three. The adventure began at a drum making workshop...