Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

 Originally posted May 5, 2013 I’ll be here until 10 PM tonight, USA ET to answer your perfumery questions, but first I want to share a great find to use with the very popular Golden Lotus Incense Warmer featured on this blog last week.  Katlyn Breene of Mermade Magikal Arts, the importer of the Golden Lotuses, supplies foil liners, and they’re great, I’ve been using them for years with her other warmer. Then I saw something on eBay that I instantly realized was a great alternative.  They’re inexpensive and recyclable metal ‘candy’ or ‘muffin’ liners. Wouldn’t you know it, the eBay shipment didn’t arrive until the day after my blog about the incense warmers, so I’ve had a week to check them out, and they are fabulous! They fit the heating element of the Golden Lotus warmer perfectly, and after the incense or resin is cooled, the spent material can be popped out (if it has hardened, like a melted resin) or merely tapped out, and you can reuse the liners!   Leave a comment and you’ll be

 Originally posted April 28, 2013 Katlyn Breene of Mermade Magikal Arts allowed me to experience incense again.  No, she didn’t give permission, that’s something nobody can do, it’s an individual choice, but she gave me an incense warmer a few years ago.  What’s an incense warmer?  Why couldn’t I use incense before getting one?  A few years ago, much to my dismay, I developed a smoke allergy. Cigarettes, incense, barbeque, fireplace smoke: you name it, it irritated my respiratory system.  The one thing I missed the most was my beloved natural incense. Katlyn is a talented perfumer in the Guild, but for many years before that, she was known for her incredibly beautiful, well-made 100% natural incense blends and singular raw materials, such as Hojary frankincense, myrrh, copal and other woods and resins she supplies to customers and other incense crafters. I blogged about the first incense “warmer” she offered a few years ago. I was so joyous!  Once again I was able to enjoy her blends,