Introducing me!

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I am just new to this group, and have been reading, with interest, all the

messages over the past few weeks. I am new to perfumery too, I make handmade

body products (natural of course) and I am hopeless at blending natural

scents, mainly because I dont know where to start! So, I am hoping to learn

a lot from this group (I have already learned the name of a good book I

should buy!) and hopefully one day i will be able to decipher a lot of what

you all have been talking about! I dont really want to use synthetic scents

in my products but I am finding that I have to because people want scents

that I dont think I can really reproduce naturally, such as coconut,

berries, peach, apple, ocean etc. So if anyone can please help out here it

would be most appreciative. Is it even possible to do this? I have a still

at home, so I can distill some of my own products too. My mum just bought a

40 acre block of land and we are planning on planting plants, harvesting

them and making essential oils (through various methods, not just

distillation). We are trying to figure out what would be the best plants to

use!! We love herbs too and are thinking of doing herbs for herbal teas etc.

Anyway, I can't wait to learn more from this group, it sounds like you are

all a helpful bunch of people!

Warm Regards,

e

West Australia