Blue + Yellow

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The color vibration for today is green. Above the green portion of the inspiration board in my studio, below Eve modeling the perfume locket necklace.


The Amazon jungle in Ecuador from our trip last summer, a definitive festival of green that requires our defending from burger conglomerates.

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color." ~Hans Hofmann

"Smell me"...the latest addition to the Illuminated Perfume tribe, a green floral based on the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.


Q illumination by Greg Spalenka.


Q botanical perfume, 7 grams of the verdant oak perfume in it's glass flacon. The color harmony of this perfume is the deep green of the leathery Coastal Live oak leaves.

"Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches."
~ Federico Garcia Lorca

This is my second contribution to the Poppytalk's Spring Color Week, yesterday was pink, see you in the morrow for the tunes and tonalities of mellow yellow.

Think Pink

Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!
~ Miley Cyrus

Variations of the theme of pink to brighten and lighten your Moon day. Today's contribution is part of PoppyTalks Spring Color Week.

Image above is the Illumination of Lyra created by Greg Spalenka, below is a photo illustration of Lyra liquid botanical perfume with her hand made crochet pouch by Martha of TwoKnit.

"I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink."
~ Emma Bunton

Here I am in the early 1960's, perhaps 1964, wearing my little pink dress and sitting on the balcony of my Aunt Elsa's apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail."
~ Christian Dior

Pictured above, Lyra as a solid natural perfume in a pink crochet pouch.


The pink in my palette is based on my skin tone, which is a pale dusty rose pink. I also have a pink that moves into coral tones, like the illumination on the first image by Greg.


I used a pink, textured Italian paper to make the folded packages for the liquid perfume samples and 1 gram bottles. Below is Greg and I getting married, I'm wearing one of my very favorite jackets purchased while in fabulous Vancouver. It's a textured pink brocade with some lace, a definitive poet-artist item with a vintage look.

"A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man."
~ Jayne Mansfield

Hot Chocolates!

New York City based Jessica, a contributor at the perfume blog Now Smell This has included a few of the chocolate perfumes in a fun review. Titled "Hot cocoa: a roundup of chocolate-scented body products for winter 2010" the review features a plethora of heavenly body products featuring chocolate. Perfect for a rainy day read!