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12 January 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Gin & Lime This is a light citrus-type cologne that is designed for everyday wear, to lift your mood day or evening. Imagine yourself on a summer afternoon in the garden, a freshly poured gin martini in front of you as a lime is cut to make an unconventional garnish for your drink: that intense fresh […]
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9 January 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
The sandalwood I use in many of my products comes from Vanuatu. Pieces of good quality sandalwood Another of the classic ingredients of perfumery that has been in use for centuries, sandalwood is a fragrance that will be familiar to most people. What may be less familiar is the fact that the most famous form […]
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29 December 2011 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
It’s perhaps a tenuous connection but wine and perfume have, alcohol, complexity and the need for a good nose in common. So I’m including links here to a couple of my favourite specialist wine suppliers actually both run by the same wine expert, David Chapman: Amis du Vin imports fine French wine particularly from the Loire While at Champagne […]
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27 December 2011 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Ambergris as a perfume ingredient has a lasting fascination and is widely misunderstood – here I’ve described some of it’s story. I don’t generally use real animal ingredients in my work – I use synthetic substitutes – however some ingredients have a special magic regardless of whether they can be used, or afforded. A piece […]
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Article: Synthetic or Natural? Here you can read a slightly longer version of an article published in the December 2011 edition of the Shropshire Magazine exploring the changing use of natural and synthetic materials in perfume and their relative merits, which you can also read in plain pdf. There are a lot of evangelists about […]