Happy Thanksgiving!
There’s that turkey again, lol (if you’ve followed the blog over the last year or two you’ve seen him before). This wild turkey was walking along near my garden with a bunch of buddies when I snapped that photo several years ago. I’ll have to get a new picture for next year; maybe I can get a picture of the mother turkeys with their little stream of babies running behind (so funny), but they run a bit fast to catch on camera. I’ll work through the holiday weekend to keep orders shipping out, but Thursday is a

Need more skin testing space…
I’m testing trials of amber noir tonight and am out of skin space, lol. I know this is a common problem for lots of fragrance lovers and it is worse in winter with longer sleeves (we’re having another cold snap right now with frost expected tonight). I go around the house with my sleeves pushed up to my elbows to get more testing space even though I’m the sort who likes snuggly warm clothes this time of year, cold wimp that I am. I need another day or two to consider ambre noir before adding it back to the list. I’ll probably leave it as is or just do a small tweak to add the cistus, and then I’ll add another amber-based scent later that

Agenda for the next few days
Turn-around time on orders is just a bit longer for a few days while I catch up after being out most of yesterday. I tested several ET mods again today and may skip the floral notes after all, but I need to wear the mods again to be sure. It may be too far afield from the original ET to add the jasmine and OB components, but I’ll try cutting back on the OB even more to satisfy my curiosity (and that direction may lead me to an incensy floral in the future so I’ll keep my notes). I ran out of Ambre Noir this morning and took it off the site for a few days because I want to try a little test with a new ingredient before I finish a new batch. The new ingredi

Quick update
I’ve been busy keeping up with orders and I have an appointment tomorrow that will slow me down a bit, but I worked on ET a little more yesterday and will continue tomorrow night. I added a subtle hint of jasmine and orange blossom that might be nice. It’s not enough to read as floral but just softens all the woods and incense. I tested it today and will test more tomorrow. As soon as I send out testers of ET I’ll get back to Bouquet Blanche. We had a rainy day today, a bit gloomy out. We need the rain though so it’s good. Turn-around time for orders that came in tonight will be an extra day since I have to be out for a while tomorrow at my

Boxed gift set option added to the site…
I added the boxed gift set option to the Gifts page in case some people want to wrap gifts for the holidays. Optional cards are also available to send with the gift. It’ll be a couple more days before I receive the larger Priority Mail boxes to ship these, but most people won’t be in a rush yet to shop for holiday gifts so that shouldn’t be a problem. Lots of packages are shipping out tomorrow, and then I’ll get back to ET! We’re having a cold snap with frost expected tonight.