Re: Blending style -- do you have one?

[Guest guest]

I fing the whole thing is facinating, the

way you have to set limits and the way you let it flow and evolve.

--Fabienne

Hi Fabienne,

I so agree. Keeping the balance between those approaches is the

(supreme) challenge, not to get sloppy, but also not to stifle

intuition, even, once in a while, impulse,and also at some point the

decisiveness to pronounce the formula complete.

But anyway, you put it much better than that.

e

[Guest guest]

> Good question. At this point I'm doing small custom orders so the

> amount I'll be using is only slightly larger than what I did for the

> trial. I will probably just dip the toothpick a few times. At 50X the

> amount it might made sense to tincture the jasmine sambac and just add

> one drop at a time???

>

> As I was mixing the blend it wasn't in my plan but was one of those

> 'art of perfume' moments that seemed right.

>

> Elise

> http://www.tambela.com

>

Thanks Elise

Ruth

[Guest guest]

There's no conflict here. Every art form includes the possibility of

both technique and

> creativity, the technique part being mostly what is taught, as the

creativity can't be so

> easily.

>

Yes I totally agree, with this, and the of course fact that one may or

may not have a natural flair for making perfumes is key! Here's me

hoping and praying I have a natural flair for perfumery.

> Fragrance creation - as other art forms - can be difficult,

especially in early stages, if there

> is no technique on which to hang our creativity.

As with drawing, I am blessed with a natural talent for drawing and

painting but if nobody had ever shown me a simple technique for

drawing a house it would have taken so much longer for my talent to

develop if at all.

>I guess just as there are " naive " artists,

I would still be a " naive " artists if I had not been shown or had not

studied. I " got good " at drawing and design because a) I practice

loads & work hard, I study what other people do and pick up

simple/new tedchniques and c) I was taught by qualified teachers.

> some of us just want to follow our noses, and this works. Others may

need more guidance

> and structure, though technique alone is probably not enough to

produce great art.

thats right! flair and a keen eye/nose/ear whatever sense it is which

is used

> Another way to view this - technique may play a greater role in

figuring out an accord, but

> embellishing it is a much more creative process, and the inital

impulse is also essentially

> creative.

>

> Tisserand

>

I think that with flair and correct application comes success in the Arts!

Ruth

[Guest guest]

> >

> > Intuition is huge in my work. If I am adding drops to

> > an initial blend, and I have say, three written down

> > for my rough draft, and while actually creating the

> > blend, I am compelled to add five, I always add five.

> > I trust my inner voice.

> > It isn't a new age air brained thing as some may

> > think. I an not a new age kinda gal. But I do believe

> > in following an instinct. and sometimes the analytical

> > brain can be a poor artist, in comparison to the

> > imagination of the spirit of creation.

> >

> > Both are needed, of course. But to rely to rigidly on

> > structure, the artistry gets lost.

> .

> >

> > Peace, Z........

> >

> I was watching this thread, hoping someone would bring up the value

> of intuition. Not to knock the cerebral/analytical aspect.

>

> I only blend for personal use and for my friends, (so maybe my

> opinion doesn't count for much here,) but I allow it to lead me. I

> sample it, and ask myself what's next. I try to base it on

> observation and intuition. What does it " want " today? In a few

> hours the answer comes. It evolves, and it's exciting to see what it

> turns into. Sometimes it becomes something memorable, at least to

> me. I don't try to duplicate a blend either, I just allow each one

> to be unique. Maybe someday I'll start naming and duplicating

> blends, but for now I like it this way, knowing that what I am

> wearing or giving to a friend is not a standardized blend.

>

Yes, while that is true about intuition. It is equally important to

first have a good working undrerstanding of the materials.

So there is a time for sturcture and learning the basics, and a time

for moving into ones own.

Every aspect of the process is important. Intuition, or feeling, only

comes after years of working with the materials, and even then a

stinker can escape the radar if one is not diligent.

Best, Z

Zz's Petals Parfume Moderne

http://www.zzspetals.com

[Guest guest]

At 06:31 AM 9/4/2006, you wrote:

>, is the ginger you're using the fiery, fresh smelling EO, or the one

>made from teh peeled, dried root? I adore the fresh!)

>Any

> Hi and Anya

> That makes me smile. I have Irish friends here around Hay- on- Wye and

> they come from Belfast and their names are Ione and Grainne (pronounced

> onya and gronya)

Jamaicans switch the a for an o in words, so my friend Pattie and I were

Onya and Pottie. TMI, I know!

> I made a simple blend using Vanilla Tuberose and Ginger which was warm

> and delicious.

Sleepy time blend!

Anya

http://anyasgarden.com/perfumes.htm Parfums Natural

http://artisannaturalperfumers.com The Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild

http://.com The Premier Natural Perfume Site Gateway

[Guest guest]

At 09:19 AM 9/4/2006, you wrote:

>It's all kind of a whirl and I let the thoughts and ingredients ebb

>and flow. I can't imagine being rigid about it, but there are times

>when it is better to stick to what I thought I should do and wrote

>down, rather than take off and do what I please and come up with

>something I don't like much. I fing the whole thing is facinating, the

>way you have to set limits and the way you let it flow and evolve.

Hi Fabienne:

I'm rigid in my technique, and then I let the imagination fly, calling up

scent memory. I regard my self-taught system, patterened on Carles, as a

good grounding. Repetition, tedium actually, a.b.c.d.e.f.g, etc., and then

compare it to s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z For years! Then I can let fly, knowing how

they all interact.

Also, the careful recordkeeping that is very hard for me, is crucial. I

write down the formula, the numbers, the percents, always trying to balance

the strength and longevity matrices.

Of course, when I made Pan I threw it all out the window, due to the

dictates of the materials, and lack of topnotes, and look what happened

there -- runaway success, lol.

Anya

http://anyasgarden.com/perfumes.htm Parfums Natural

http://artisannaturalperfumers.com The Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild

http://.com The Premier Natural Perfume Site Gateway

[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

>This part is going to sound really goofy but I'm a color therapist so I

can't

>help it -- somewhere along the way I get a sense of what " colors " the spray

>should contain. Not the physical color but the vibrational color. That

tells me

>what energy work to do on the finished blend and what color therapy

products to

>include. Then I get ideas about the essential oils. Some will make sense to

me

>consciously, others won't but invariably when I sit to down research later

what

>I used, the properties of the oils match the need.

This is really neat!

>A friend who works for the

>marketing department of a major corporation asked me to make a spray with

>certain characters for them to use to inspire their salespeople.

Sounds great. Good luck with this project!

Love,

Saskia