Greetings from an undiscolosed location on the East Coast. Since I’m here for the Martha Stewart Radio Show on Tuesday, I flew in a day early to start planning our Fall and Christmas 2010 line (can you believe it?! Fall lines already?!). I spent a full 8 hours learning and working on the building blocks for the perfumery and am completely euphoric about the entire planned 2010 line.
First we went through and smelled the individual fragrance building blocks, comparing base notes like Tonka Bean, Madagascar Vanilla and Indian Sandalwood. Then, we started creating from the ground up.
My nose was definitely fine tuned with the entire day of sniffing and I smelled individual notes that I’ve never smelled one-off – the most exquisite jasmines, the most ethereal roses and rare wild mugeut.
I had help for the day; a wonderful friend and early Bramble Berry tester came in from Conneticut to help me sort through all the fragrance options. I was lucky to have her because my nose needed a rest after a hundred plus sniffs.
Tonight I head into the heart of the city where I stay just a few blocks off of Broadway. Tomorrow is Martha Stewart Radio (call in at 1:30 EST with any questions you have about soaps and toiletries). After the workday, I have a super fun evening planned with a good friend (and Bramble Berry customer) to go see the musical ‘Billy Elliot.’ I listened to the soundtrack for most of the plane ride and am interested to see the choreography to go with it.
That is just awesome! I would have been in heaven!!! I love my fragrances from BrambleBerry! :o)
Irena aka soapbuddy
I, too, am looking forward to your new lines of scents!
I'd just finished reading some more articles on the harmful effects of BPA, including phthalates, so I hope you'll be keeping that in mind, when searching for new scents, for customers (or customers of your customers…LOL!) who would like to avoid them. Thanks!!
Oh wow that looks awesome! Can't wait to see what you've cooked up for 2010!
Thanks for all of your good wishes everyone.
Surprisingly, my nose did okay with the entire day of sniffing. We broke the day up – classes, tour, sniffing, lunch, more sniffing so that way the nose wasn't too overwhelmed.
I felt so lucky to be able to learn from some of the best perfumers in the world. It was a really special day.
PS – Body Natural, in theory, you're ahead of the game since weighing fragrance oils for your soap is a more precise way to go =)
I couldn't do it. When making several batches of lotion and soap one weekend I noticed that my nose quit working. I actually made one batch of lotion that my Hubby thought was to strong and I couldn't smell it at all. I have learned that I can not do my soap any more by smell I have to scent it by wieghing the fragrance.
Oh my goodness! I don't think my sniffer could take that! lol!
Very Cool! Have a great time at the the Musical.
wow how cool is that
so many combos you could try
I would be there for years!
that looks like a blast!!!! have fun in the city!
Ah, fragrance envy…that must have been so much fun! Sounds like the rest of your trip is going to be fabulous too! Did you have a favorite scent?
what fun but dang thats alot of scents!! hope you didn't break your nose! LOL can't wait, and just hinting one of my favs is pumpkin cheesecake! LOL