alchemologie

  Juke Hot, humid nights, moonlight on water, night bugs singing, hot jazz in the distance. The air is heady with magnolia flowers relea...

Orange Flower Water in a vintage bottle. Orange Flower comes from the blossoms of the bitter orange tree, Citrus sinensis.  The bitter ...

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

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...

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...

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

My newest perfume, Midnight Garden, is the joint creation of the lovely women of The Robert Allen Group and myself.  The Group has design...

Sweet Woodruff growing in the 6/15 Green Herb Garden About ten years ago I bought a sweet woodruff plant from the Greenmarket at Grand A...