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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Making Perfume: Art Night

Monique makes perfume

I have a great group of friends who get together randomly for art night. I usually sketch (or get totally distracted and spend most of the time talking). But lately I have been enamoured with making perfume. I’m working on a spicy oriental at the moment: cloves, cinnamon, coriander, cardamon, orange, with a dry woody base. It’s not going well but the photos look good.

Thanks Rachael for the photo. She’s a Goddess Spiral of goodness.

I find it hard to believe that you “get totally distracted and spend most of the time talking”.

I’m happy to hear you’re working on a spicy oriental with a dry woody base. 

A less sensitive man like myself might have some smart remark.  Not I.  All I have to say is maybe you’ll let me smell you at NV ?

Robert! I was thinking about you today because we were up on Cypress. I will totally bring you random perfumes to smell. And you should know that until the 20th century perfume was for men and women. Unisex. Then we figured out marketing and that you can package and sell a lot more of the stuff to women.

NV: I can’t wait. And did you ever post the audio from the book session last year? If yes, I’d love to link to it. Perhaps you’re just quietly playing Meg’s words to yourself?

Big hug to you.

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