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19 September 2018 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Amazingly it was four years ago that I posted about then new research demonstrating that the sandalwood odourant known as Sandalore (a brand name belonging to Givaudan) could have beneficial effects in wound healing. Now, the press (among others the Independent, Inverse and the Daily Mail) report that this same material can stimulate hair growth. […]
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cocktails Gin and Lime off topic
11 June 2016 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
It’s been a while since I posted and I thought it was high time I did. As this weekend is World Gin Day and, is a week before, Father’s Day; it seemed right to create a cocktail using gin and call it The Old Man. So I did. I might also subtitle this one A Tale […]
DIY education Making your own perfume news workshops
2 March 2016 / 27 July 2023 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Two workshops are planned: How to Make Perfume & How to Make Better Perfume: Advanced Skills for Perfumers: Full details are on the Eventbrite Pages, but if you want to attend both please get in touch with me directly using enquiry@pellwall-perfumes.com as I can offer a discounted price for both.
ingredient interviews Making your own perfume news Pell Wall in the media the Perfumery
5 January 2016 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Happy New Year! Episode 10 of the WondAroma podcast features the Pell Wall perfumer Chris Bartlett talking to Christine Daley of Perfumer Supply House about: how Pell Wall came about the process of composing a fragrance and a handful of interesting ingredients including Geosmin, Green Tea Givco, Skatole, Theaspirane and Zenolide. The audio quality starts […]
Anjin PWP Product reviews
5 October 2015 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Anjin by Pell Wall I’ve been a subscriber to Le Mouchoir Parfumé for some time: the incisive, informed and most importantly short, reviews are just my cup of tea. They are by no means always positive and don’t pull any punches however, so it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I opened the email […]
cocktails ingredient natural vanilla
15 April 2015 / 27 July 2023 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Prosecco upgraded with Vanilla CognacPell Wall style Vanilla is one of the most useful ingredients in cooking, cocktails and perfumery. Its story is quite well known, so I’m only going to touch on some of the less well-known aspects here. My main purpose is to give details of a fine drink and a tincture that […]
DIY education ingredient Making your own perfume natural
14 March 2015 / 27 July 2023 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Tolu Balsam is a very useful natural fixative as well as a lovely base-note in its own right, but it isn’t the easiest of materials to handle. It comes from the South American tree Myroxylon balsamum. It is used to fix materials such as juniper, petitgrain, spices and florals of many kinds and frequently forms a […]
DIY ingredient Making your own perfume special offers from Pell Wall
12 March 2015 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
Clearance Bargain Ingredients – only one of each! From time to time people order perfumery ingredients from me and, either because they say they are in a hurry or just because I’m trying to keep ahead of things, I make up the order before they pay . . . then sometimes they don’t pay, either […]
DIY ingredient Making your own perfume new products news
10 March 2015 / 26 April 2024 by Chris | Leave a Comment
The March issue of my Ingredients List is now online and the list now features some 300 materials, both natural and synthetic, with some very exciting new additions and a spectacular price reduction on one material thanks to some help from a friend in the US. There are two versions of the list on the […]
Disambiguation DIY education ingredient Making your own perfume Sticky Leather Sky
10 January 2015 / 27 July 2023 by Chris | Leave a Comment
I thought it might be useful to do another in my occasional series of disambiguation posts about perfumery ingredients with easily confused names or equivalences. This time I’m looking at a group of similar ingredients used to create an earthy, leather note in fragrances: No quinolines in Sticky Leather Sky Isobutyl quinoline (CAS number 65442-31-1), of which […]
