LPR's Holiday Sales

We're adding more new sales every day to the Le Parfumeur Rebelle Holiday Sales' list.

Holiday Sale!

Le Parfumeur Rebelle's Holiday Sales' page is filling up fast, but the sales won't last forever.

Come to LPR and peruse for holiday gifts from some of your favorite small businesses ~

Soivohle ~ Liz Zorn, Soivohle's perfumer, is offering free shipping plus 10% off all orders thru December 18th


Faerie Made ~ Tina Glen of Faerie Made is offering 15% off all orders thru December 6th

Nature's Gift ~ Marge Clark of Nature's Gift is offering 10% normally discounted products through the Thanksgiving weekend

Sunrose Aromatics ~ Rosanne at Sunrose is offering 10% off all orders over $50 to all Le Parfumeur Rebelle readers

Magickal Realism ~ Diana Rajchel of Magickal Realism is offering free shipping internationally from Thanksgiving thru January 15th

The Scented Djinn ~ Justine Crane of The Scented Djinn is offering 10% all orders thru December 5th

The list is growing daily, so check back at LPR for more holiday deals.

Angel Face Botanicals

Angel Face Botanicals product review on Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Back of the Moon

Back of the Moon review at Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Holiday Shopping Ideas

Shopping ideas from Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Le Parfumeur Rebelle Giveaway

Mandrake Apothecary is hosting the November LPR giveaway.

Go enter.

Perfume Sample Giveaway

At 'Oh, True Apothecary!' blog here.

October LPR Giveaway

Sponsored by MoonaLisa ~ A Supernatural Clean.

Enter here.

Get Your Sniffa' On!

Roxana Illuminated Perfumes does Sniffa' -- twice!

Read the details here.

Classes, Courses & Workshops in Natural & Botanical Perfumery

NNAPA ~ Nature's Nexus Academy of Perfuming Arts' pilot course begins October 21, 2008 for one year of online comprehensive natural and botanical perfume training. Course offers certificate of completion. Contact NNAPA for more information.

Coeur d'Esprit Natural Perfume Course ~ "Introduction to the art of Natural Perfumery. We will be covering twenty-one oils/absolutes; various bases; scent profiling; the language of natural perfumery; formulation; accords; scent-similars; tinctures; macerations; and many other aspects. Specific assignments are given for each of the six sections. In order to attain a Certificate of Completion for this course, you will need to do these twenty-six assignments and reports, sixteen perfume samples, and the final proctored written exam, and practical exam. The exam can be taken six months after you begin your studies. This is an in-depth course and there is no need to rush." per website. Visit Lyn Ayre at Coeur d'Esprit for more information.

If you are interested in listing your natural perfume course with Le Parfumeur Rebelle, contact the editors here.

Roxana Illuminated Perfume

September 2008 Le Parfumeur Rebelle Giveaway sponsor:

Roxana Illuminated Perfume ~

Go enter!

Perfumery Without Pretension

LPR's Diana Rajchal interviews Stephanie K Naturals perfumer!

Working the Bench

With Lyn Ayre, Natural Perfumer on Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Lyn Ayre

LPR's own Lyn Ayre featured in Sniffapalooza Magazine.

August LPR Giveaway

This month's sponsor is Luscious Naturals, LLC, purveyor of luxury vegan skincare products.

Giveaway items include: Luxury Salt Butter Scrub, Chamomile~Aloe Toner, Pure Natural
Vegan Clay Masque, and Kaolin Complexion Super Luxe Vegan
Soap.

ENTER HERE!

Luscious Naturals, LLC

Dog Days

Summer's got us all by the sweat glands.

I'm sure the blogging will commence, oh, sometime.

I'm making a pact with myself to finish up those leather accord evaluations. They're good.

Fight the FDA's proposed Globalization Act of 2008

By signing the petition at the Indie Beauty Network hosted by Donna Maria Coles Johnson.

Watch the video, then sign the petition.



© 2008, Donna Maria Coles Johnson. Used by Permission. Originally posted at www.indiebusinessblog.com.

Interview on Le Parfumeur Rebelle

There's a new interview up on the 'Working the Bench' page at the Le Parfumeur Rebelle website ~ this time 'we' talked with Ruth Ruane of White Witch and Nature's Nexus.

Jumping in

. . . to say Happy 4th.



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Leather Incognito

An accord by Roxana Villa

This is a leather accord that is not a leather accord ~ it is a perfume. The ingredients read like a guest list to an exclusive party. A masque ball on the banks of a slow moving river.

The Choyas arrived with Mr. Mate in tow, while a belligerent Dr. Orris tussled a bit at the buffet line with the Balsam brothers, Peru and Poplar. The Misses Saffron and Mimosa cornered the handsome bachelor Mr. Cabreuva in the geranium garden, begging for cinnamon kisses. It was all in good fun.

The Oakmoss Band played into the early morning, leaving alone Labdanum and Ambrette embracing on the cedarwood dance floor.

Okay, that was just a bit of silliness. The 'guest' list is much, much longer. Without giving away too much by way of what's in this leather incognito, let me finish off by saying it is lovely. It opens fresh and sparkly with notes of geranium tangling with orange and bergamot. The flash lasts moments before moving into something softer, sweeter, a little closer to the skin. Flowers emerge -- jasmine, a hint of rose. This 'fume has spectacular lift. It is effervescent and pops off the skin. Never quite going completely dark and leathery, it maintains this lighter than air character. And it lasts quite a while on the skin.

In a word, this leather accord is delightful.

Leather ~ Ms Adrian

Le Parfumeur Rebelle's Leather Project commences:

Gail Adrian's submission to the leather project is the one I chose to begin with -- for no particular reason other than it landed in my hand.

This is a perfume in and of itself. It is light and dark, sweet and salty, warm, ambery, animalic and floral ~ in a word: Lovely.

Directly from my notes: Reminds me of a Native American blend with grasses and smoke and earth, muted fire, soil after a deluge of rain, is slightly floral (a nearly finished perfume!), animalic ~ this scent undulates, surges in and out like warm, murky waves. I would wear this if I wanted to seduce someone ~ ha!

Justine

Scentsation scentsory overload & loving it.

I have been a gardening fiend this past few weeks.  In fact, I am neglecting a lot of other things in life, like making soap or scrubs. My excuse has been because I have injured my back (which is on the mend), so I can't lift things.  And I haven't.  Just ask my husband ;) ... he was recruited to be lift boy.  However, that hasn't stopped me from planting things and a bit of weeding.  

It's been great year for my roses... I was gifted an antique jacques cartier and then i have two climbers that have just rock and rolled.  Now I am obsessed and need more.  If I can't eat it, smell it, or be healed by it, then it better be pretty ... 

Oh feline Goddess of the Kitchen...

...I petition and invoke thy steadfast state of relaxation to calm me as I attempt to take product photos on the kitchen table. Here, I will lay a green milk glass saucer before thy snoozing hairy feet, with a wee bit of home-baked bread with organic butter spread upon it.

Daisy Ernestine, help me maintain my cool, and help me to have a steady hand, as I hold the camera, and snap pics of perfume bottles in various stages of packaging.

Your humble servant,
sara, the un-photographer

Fascinating!

I am perplexed as I continue to labor on an astrological scent that requires an ability to create and balance luxurious and rich warm expansive scents of luxury with an underlying theme of disruption, creating order out of chaos and micro-management.

I have to admit, I've been struggling. And that can only mean another roller coaster ride for me.

Quite recently, I have been noticing that specific aspects of my patrons' lives which leave me puzzled appear in my life in the form of my own challenges that in turn, lead to new realizations leading to scentual resolution.

While I am having a blast, raising my hands over my head, and shreiking WHOOOOO while the winds of magic and empathy blow on my face. Nevertheless, the experience is also exhausting and requires my personal aromatic comforts.

To this end, I am finding for my own edification and centering, notes that include different Patchouli's, and Chocolate Tinctures.

Prelim From Tonie On the Leathers . . .

"Mooney got soft suede. Rox's~ I have to smell more~ it's so complex. I got 2 from Nic~ #1 maybe got tea~ #2 is the inside of an old cowboy boot~ a saddle. A warm tack room with dust filtering through the windows, dancing in the sunlight. There's a common thread that runs through these~ is it sandal & choya? I think it's tres cool that you babes are doing this~ offering cruelty free scent interpretations."

Operation Leather

Over the next few weeks, some of our contributors here will be posting information and reviews on a recent leather accord project hosted by Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Modern natural botanical leather accords are usually typified by the use of birch tar, nagarmotha, choya nakh and choya loban, among other pungent smelling naturals.

I think you will be surprised and enchanted by the diverse interpretations of LPR's leather accord project submissions.

Rules? What rules?

Nobody can teach you to be a natural botanical perfumer.

Nobody.

They can teach you how to analyze and evaluate. They can teach you perfume history, and they can regurgitate information gleaned from the handful of perfume making books that specialize in pre-synthetics. They can even try to force you to follow methods of blending that directly relate to modern synthetic perfume formulation.

But they still cannot teach you to be a perfumer no matter how much money they charge for the service.

You teach yourself. You teach yourself because there are not yet any hard and fast rules in modern natural botanical perfumery. The same techniques and modes of blending used before the late 1800's don't apply -- there are far more raw materials in our palettes than there were then. Modern French techniques don't apply either.

As those folks who use these mismatched methods of instruction harp on and on about Edmond Roudnitska and Jean Carles, let them be reminded that these great perfumers made their mark because they tossed the rules.

tinctures aren't just for 'fuming

File under 'Happy Surprises', eh.

I was preparing scallops for dindin on Sunday night, hoping to recreate something I did in March when I was able to get my perfumey mitts on a black truffle. The truffle is long gone, but I did have a stack of crimini mushrooms, some good butter, and tinctured black truffle (in grain etoh) from 2006, bwahaha. *eagerly rubs hands together*

You can do a couple droppers of truffle tincture into melted butter, let it steam and stew, and have a very good truffle aroma and flavor left behind.

And here I thought I was limited to futzing with the tincture in earthy blends and accords...

Intro

Seems we're suffering from a bit of stage fright ~ ha!

I'll make the first post to kind of let folks know what this is all about.

You'll notice that there are several bloggers writing this blog -- all of them are botanical perfumers or severely addicted to botanical perfumes. Some of them you may recognize from elsewhere on the blogosphere or maybe through their business websites. Some of them will be entirely new to the game.

This blog is about the perfumed life.

And how we do it our way.