alchemologie

I truly adore ground glass stoppered bottles.  The good ones have a tight secure fit and don't let air escape.  I collect antique one...

Of all of my measuring tools I love my graduated beakers the most.  Aesthetically it's the shape and look of them.  I have a hand blo...

Nothing makes me feel more like a "true apothecary" than when I'm grinding something up in one of my collection of mortars an...

Give the gift of a private perfume consultation!  You'll be giving a unique and very personal experience.  Your gifted one will lear...

For centuries we've enjoyed and benefitted from the most commonly known hydrosol, rosewater.  A true gift from nature, rosewater is ...

Carnations, underrated and maligned, are actually one of my favorite floral fragrances. Not the mass produced carnations available in ever...

I was recently interviewed by the lovely Christie Clements for Cosmo Times.  Christie and I made a perfume together while the cameras r...

My perfume organ where I do bespoke perfume consultations. My custom perfume consultations were listed in the Beauty Secrets of the Supe...

So pleased to offer up this stunning review by John Reasinger of Cafleurebon .  John is a Senior Editor and the Natural Perfume Editor...

It's so tiny you could almost miss it.  In fact I did miss it!  A client was on their way over for a consultation and was reading Mari...

The sun hits the work in progress on Flora Every once in a while I get a really enticing teaser.  "This is National Geographic, we...

It's official.  I've begun teaching small groups in my cozy and intimate home studio.  I've been wanting to teach here for many ...

I taught my first workshop in my home studio last weekend and among my students were very special guests Olga Ivanova and Zoran Cerar of F...

Sol de la Foret, my newest fragrance, is a true labor of love.  After falling head over heals with the fragrance family, fougere, I s...

While hunting for bottles on the beach last month I came across this tightly capped mysterious bottle filled with liquid.  I opened it rig...

I had some good luck collecting bottles on the beach this year.  Most of them get scrubbed clean, sterilized and bottle up my cologne experi...

Colognes bottled up and ready This season's colognes are finally brewed, filtered, bottled and labeled.  I'm pleased with the w...