Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

  Modern techniques for making perfume by  Anya McCoy  |  Jan 7, 2018  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  Healthy perfume ,  How to Make Perfume ,  Hydrosols ,  study perfumery  |  2 comments Perfumers need to be savvy about how to provide a safe product to their customers. Perfume bottles and lab equipment can arrive from the factory with contaminants such as dust, bits of odds and ends (like paper), pesticides (from warehouse spraying), and other assorted things that need to be removed before filling or shipping. If you’re into making perfume or perfume products, you should read this. Isn’t the New Year all about making good choices, and upping your game? Making sure you offer a sanitized (or more) product should be a goal for every perfumer. Trio of Anya’s Garden Perfumes – bottles and caps washed before filling to meet sanitary standards I’m a bit of an OCD germaphobe to begin with, so making my product containers either sanitary, disinfected, or sterile (depending on the end use) is

  Perfume Tincture of Orange Jasmine Flowers by  Anya McCoy  |  May 4, 2015  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  natural aromatics ,  natural perfume ,  Perfume From Your Garden book ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  13 comments First, I have to thank my new garden assistant, because he was the first one in three years who followed my instructions to radically prune back my orange jasmine tree (Murraya paniculata) so that I would get lots of flowers. The pruning is needed to produce new growth, and the flowers appear on the new growth. Other gardeners just wouldn’t do it, fearing I would not like the woody, bare look of the tree, but I’m a horticulturist and botanist, and I had the tree managed for many years that way, but I just couldn’t convince them. Oh, well, thank you, Eric, you not only pruned it back, but in doing so, you discovered some hummingbird nests, which was wonderful. The snakes, not so much, but they were chased off to protect the birds. hummingbird nests in orange jasmin

  The Secret World of Ambrette Seeds by  Anya McCoy  |  Mar 8, 2015  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  natural aromatics ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  1 comment Oh, the incredible beauty of the inner chambers of ripe ambrette seeds! I have been growing a patch of them for several months, chronicled  here  and  here . Last night I sat down for another session removing the seeds from the hairy, prickly pod – ouch! The pod is made up of five segments, or locules, and I discovered the easiest way to “open” them was to pull them apart from the pointed non-stem end. I’ve taken some photos of the inside of the locules before, but last night I was determined to get a photo or two with most of the seeds lined up. Sounds easy? Not. When you pull the fully-ripened pod apart, no matter how gently, many of the seeds tend to drop down into the bowl or make a leap for freedom, flying about. Interior of ambrette seed locule, showing funiculus still attached to ripe seeds. Right-click the image and