DIY education hyacinth ingredient Making your own perfume natural nature of smell Persian Prince Spring Flowers Collection
2 May 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
What’s actually in the scent of a flower? It’s probably not a question most people ask, but if you’re interested in the answer I’m presenting here a discussion of the components of the scent of hyacinth flowers. Hyacinths in flower in the Pell Wall garden Most of these individual chemicals are available to the perfumer […]
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education nature of smell news off topic
1 May 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
This remarkable half hour interview with Nobel Prize winning scientist Richard Axel, starts with a discussion of the nature of smell and wanders on into gene splicing, the discovery of the mechanism by which the AIDS/HIV infection works, touching on the sex-life of snails and opera. Along the way we get a wonderful insight into […]
DIY FAQ ingredient Making your own perfume natural synthetic
1 May 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | 10 Comments on Starter Kit for DIY Perfume Making
One of those questions I get asked quite often by people planning to start making their own perfumes is what to buy to get started. To help answer that I’ve put together some lists of both natural and synthetic materials that I think are good to start with. Pell Wall Perfumes Blending Bench My own […]
Disambiguation DIY education ingredient Making your own perfume natural
28 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Perfumery ingredients often have fascinating names, sometimes confused by different usages and this is a case in point, in this case there are three different ingredients, all fixative base notes, that are easily confused: Benzoin, used alone, or prefixed with Sumatra, usually refers to Styrax benzoin (also called Benzoin resinoid*), whereas Benzoin Siam is usually used to refer to Styrax tonkinensis – […]
DIY IFRA Making your own perfume news
27 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
At the European Parliament Expo on Trade Secrets, earlier this year, IFRA decided to publish a full fragrance formula ‘for the first time’ and copies of the formula and the fragrance made with it were given to politicians as part of a lobbying campaign to raise awareness of the importance of trade secrets to the fragrance industry.That […]
Compliance DIY IFRA Making your own perfume Standards
25 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
IFRA Standards International FRagrance Association I’m always being asked, by people starting out in the make-your-own-perfume business what these are and how they apply to fragrances. Most people not in the industry seem to find the IFRA website a bit difficult to navigate too, so I thought I’d make up a summary list for quick reference. This […]
DIY feedback new products news product St George’s Day
24 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
It’s the day after St George’s Day so I have a year to gather ideas, build a design and make it ready to release a fragrance for St George’s Day 2013. This idea started when a friend of mine bemoaned the fact that St George’s Day isn’t much celebrated and wondered whether corporate sponsorship might […]
Crowdsource daffodil Deep Purple hyacinth news Persian Prince Spring Flowers Collection violet
14 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Pell Wall Perfumes has launched a new collection of three fragrances each based on one of the classic Spring flowers of the English country garden. The Spring Flowers Collection Persian Prince is based on Hyacinth Crowdsource is based on Daffodil and Deep Purple is based on Violet
feedback hyacinth Persian Prince product PWP Product Spring Flowers Collection
9 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | 1 Comment on Persian Prince – The Spring Flowers Collection – PWP Product
This is a smooth, subtle interpretation of hyacinth – this naturally rather brash flower is here tamed and made easier to wear – in composing this scent I imagined blue hyacinths though even within one colour of flower the scent varies with the variety grown. I couldn’t get the fragrance to go blue without bunging […]
Deep Purple feedback product PWP Product Spring Flowers Collection violet
9 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Deep Purple by Pell Wall One of the great classics of perfumery violet perfumes have been popular since the 17th century for the distinctive, sweet, floral aroma. Violet is combined with other scents in many, many fragrances but here I wanted to allow it to shine alone. You’ll recognise immediately the ‘parma violets’ character of the scent, though […]