Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

  Making Perfume Tip About Using Abbreviations for Descriptors by  Anya McCoy  |  Oct 13, 2015  |  natural aromatics ,  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  raw materials of perfumery ,  study perfumery  |  0 comments Learn how to dilute aromatics, use a scale, and work with professional evaluation forms to record your impressions. Making Perfume: Perfume Shorthand Key to Comprehensive Descriptors for Organoleptic Evaluation Perfumers need a jolt, or a boost to the thinking process, to help them come up with a descriptive word for various aspects of a fragrance. When making modifications (aka mods) to choose the perfect perfume, it helps to have both the Aromatic Lexicon that I supply my students with, and the next step, a shorthand way to jot down those descriptive terms. The following shorthand key included in the textbook for  The Natural Perfumery Institute , (NPI) is valuable for this, and I’m sharing it here to pay it forward to those who need some help with

  How to Make Perfume – Excerpts from my textbook by  Anya McCoy  |  Aug 9, 2015  |  How to Make Perfume ,  natural perfume ,  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  study perfumery  |  5 comments Slow Study Making perfume takes time and lots of thinking and introspection. As I work through adapting my textbook for my new website, I am finding many passages that are very helpful for anyone who wants to make perfume, or is already making perfume, whether you stick to 100% natural ingredients like I do, or if you use aroma chemicals. I’ve decided to excerpt some passages on a regular basis because I believe they can inspire and help others on this path. My first excerpt deals with the fear and indecision that every perfumer faces. If you don’t face it, I challenge you to challenge yourself, you’re too complacent. Springtime image from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, my hometown. I grew up knowing and loving this statue. So, it’s springtime, and you’re evaluating the

  How to Make Your Own Perfume Professionally by  Anya McCoy  |  Jun 18, 2014  |  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  study perfumery  |  2 comments I get frequent emails from potential students who want more information about the professional course I offer at the  Natural Perfumery Institute . It’s all about them wanting to learn how to make their own perfume, and what it entails. There is no short answer: even though my course is systematic, professional, and guarantees you will learn how to make perfume, the path is still different for each student. The secret to perfume making is that there is no secret, and no reason to hesitate in blending if you are given a firm foundation. A few years ago I was speaking with a good friend, now passed, the late perfumer Alec Lawless. He also taught perfumery, and we were comparing notes on what we observed with potential students that wrote us, asking how to make perfume, what would the course do for them? Many had, to th

Cold Enfleurage - Vietnamese gardenias from Anya's Garden I recently blogged about production methods in the aromatics industry, and how important it is for students of the Natural Perfumery Institute to be knowledgeable about them.  A basic course needs to cover these topics so that the student perfumer will be able to converse and communicate intelligently and effectively about the sources of the aromatics used in our art. Vietnamese gardenia from Anya's Garden Many students, if ambitious, can extract aromatics from plant material, animal derivatives and soil themselves if they wish.  Here is a list of the topics covered in Module 2 of my textbook. 3.2:  Extraction Methods and Products                                                                  Distillation                                                                                                                Steam Distillation