Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

  Making perfume: 100% natural perfume products by  Anya McCoy  |  Apr 6, 2019  |  How to Make Perfume ,  natural aromatics ,  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  study perfumery  |  0 comments In my professional making perfume course, I instruct students in the art of perfumery from the first drop to the final product. There are many bonus modules for fragrant products, including potpourri, body butter, scented body powder, enfleurage, and many more that allow you to be a multi-faceted perfumer. The new website is under construction, so excuse the tired face of the current site at https://perfumeclasses.com, but get excited by the modern one to come! Here’s a sample of some of the luscious photos illustrating the new site: POMADE EXTRAIT POWDER PERFUME See you in class!

The Beauty of Botanicals Made Liquid – The Passion of Natural Perfumers This article originally appeared on Basenotes.net on Feb. 20, 2008 by Anya McCoy 20th February, 2008 This flower is at the limit of wilting or decomposition that I will allow into my tincture.  On-the-spot decisions are necessary when processing botanicals, and hands-on natural perfumers become adept at the process. The 21st Century Revival and Redefinition of Natural Perfume by Natural Perfumers Like everyone who has progressed with passion, training, and persistence to become a perfumer, the new wave of natural perfumers started with an intense love of scents. Many can trace their formative moment – the zing of recognition – when a scent transformed their life, and put them on the path of creation. They probably smelled everything around them (as did I) from grass to dirt, flowers, other people, cement, perfume, cereal, ink, paper, plastic dolls, toys, food cooking, hair, furniture, the air before a storm, rotten

  Perfume From Your Garden Treasures in Two Jasmines by  Anya McCoy  |  Jan 10, 2017  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes  |  0 comments Jasminum auriculatum  and  Jasminum azoricum There are ten species and cultivars of jasmines in my gardens, and I want to share information about two very rare ones that are particularly rewarding.   Jasmine auriculatum  is a vine/bush with heady, green, sharp, somewhat indolic (if harvested at night) flowers. In India, this species of jasmine is called Juhi, and I first smelled the absolute in 1976 at the Magic Dragon shop in West Los Angeles. Here’s a photo of me with my young J. auriculatum vine in 2011. It was taken by my front door, but the auriculatum didn’t last there long – I had to move it. Why? Because around 10:00 PM at night, the scent would go so indolic, I thought a dog left a deposit by my front door! Sweet during the day, deadly stink at night, it had to be moved to the back fence, far from the house. The young Jasminum auriculatum vine by m

  Comparison Between Natural and Synthetic Perfumes by  Anya McCoy  |  Apr 25, 2016  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  Healthy perfume ,  natural aromatics ,  natural perfume ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  6 comments As head of the Natural Perfumers Guild, founder of the Natural Perfumery Institute, and a perfumer who only uses 100% natural aromatics in my perfumes, I am often asked about the differences between natural and mainstream (contain synthetics) perfumes. I created the following chart years ago for my  textbook , and it’s a good, quick reference on the subject. The bottle may hold natural or mainstream perfume. It’s the customer’s decision based on preferences, scent, price, or lifestyle whether to purchase it – or not. Chart for Quick Comparison Between Natural and Synthetic Perfumes   Natural Mainstream (contains synthetics) Perfumer’s Goal: Beauty and Health Beauty Aromatic Palette: Essential oils, concretes, absolutes, CO2s, tinctures, and infusions Primarily synthetic

  How to Make Perfume – Why I don’t enfleurage golden champaca by  Anya McCoy  |  Aug 28, 2015  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  enfleurage ,  How to Make Perfume ,  natural aromatics ,  natural perfume ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  6 comments When you make perfume from flowers, there are several ways to extract the scent. I love to enfleurage rare flowers. Enfleurage is placing flowers on a bed of semi-hard fat, such as shortening, or rendered leaf lard and suet. The next step in the process is to “wash” the fat in alcohol. This post isn’t about enfleurage, except to point out why I don’t enfleurage a flower that seems ripe for the process. Some flowers, even though they emit a lovely fragrance, shouldn’t be enfleuraged. There are several reasons for this. Orange blossoms are fragile and would fall apart in the enfleurage tray, requiring laborious deleveraging process – picking the petals out, one by one, with tweezers. Tweezers are routinely used to remove flowers from enfleurage