DIY ingredient Making your own perfume special offers from Pell Wall
12 March 2015 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall | 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 […]
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DIY ingredient Making your own perfume new products news
10 March 2015 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall | 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 Pell Wall | 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 […]
feedback news Pell Wall in the media Pretty in Pink reviews
30 December 2014 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
Pretty in Pink by Pell Wall As 2014 races to the finish line, I’m pleased to report that Pell Wall has featured as the Best Discovery of 2014 on the much respected Perfume Shrine blog by Elena Vosnaki, who has also just published a fantastic review of Pretty in Pink on the Fragrantica website: not […]
DIY education Making your own perfume workshops
12 December 2014 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
Following on from my post last month, I’m now able to confirm dates and location for the workshops. There are two workshops Introductory and Advanced – there are still places on the Introductory but only one place left on the Advanced: Some ingredients for the Introductory Workshop On Saturday 7th February I’ll be holding a […]
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8 December 2014 / 27 October 2024 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
It’s common knowledge in the industry, but not so common elsewhere, that perfumes are frequently composed by perfumers who are not associated with the company that markets them. Commonly those perfumers work for one of the big ingredients houses, perhaps under the guidance of a designer from the brand for which the perfume is being […]
7 December 2014 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
Just one place left on this workshop! On Saturday 31st January I’m running another in my series of perfume making workshops, this one is in association with the Perfume Lovers London Meet-up Group and follows on from a talk I’m giving the previous Thursday on the use of incense notes in fragrance: you don’t have […]
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Chris Bartlett – Perfumer at Pell Wall Pell Wall’s perfumer Chris Bartlett is featured in an article in Management Today: not an organ of the press most usually associated with perfumery and all the more worth readying for that. Apparently we’re like punk rockers . . .
cocktails off topic
23 November 2014 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
And now for something completely different: It’s an experiment I’ve been meaning to do for a while: a martini-style drink using a cocktail beetroot as garnish. I wanted the liquid to be essentially clear, so that as you drink it, you could see the colour bleeding out of the beetroot. At the same time the ingredients […]
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9 November 2014 / 27 October 2024 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
I’m planning to run another of my One Day Workshops aimed at taking you from an interest in perfume and blending, to making a wearable perfume yourself – the last one was at Les Senteurs – the next will be in February 2015, it will be on a Saturday and at a central London location. […]
