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Customer Review of Spellbound Woods

December 21, 2007 Filed Under: Bramble Berry News

Thank you to Evie for this delightful note about Spellbound Woods. While we get many feedback notes from customers every day, this one was particularly well written and evocative. Happy Friday!

I absolutely LOVE the Spellbound Woods fragrance oil. I’ve been looking for a blend like this for my male customers. I did add some amber a couple of drops of vanilla and man, what a scent!

This is going to be one to really play with. I wanted a scent that was all man that didn’t shout around the corner before the man appeared!

This is lovely. I completely got the visual of a leather high backed chair, an expensive tweed jacket , a well packed pipe of the finest of tobacco in a magnificent home library……….this is one that will be versatile. This is a classy scent for sure. If one knows their scents, a slight alteration can make this work several ways and this is a scent that can stand on its own. This will smell perfect without altering a single note. Thanks!

Aussie Soap Supplies Reviews BB Fragrances

October 17, 2007 Filed Under: Bramble Berry News

Thank you to Dave and Jude at Aussie Soap Supplies for trying out some of Bramble Berry’s latest additions. They even sent photos and testing notes! If you’re in Australia and you want to buy soapmaking supplies, Dave and Jude have a great company so check them out here.

Testing notes from Jude:

This is Wasabi fragrance in a discount water batch – just the small sample – works a treat and fragrance is top notch. It’s the blue swirl in the pot soap attached. I actually added an ester (*Smack = dumb) so that was why it was accelerated before I even added the FO!

Snickerdoodle in full gel phase

Jude notes: Buttercream and Snickerdoodle morphs slightly IMHO, still pleasant, but more like Warm Vanilla Sugar. It seems to lose the caramel sugar notes in CP. HOT gel, quite quickly. Discolouration tan/caramel colour. Not unpleasant.

Review from Jude: Rhubarb – will *bite* ? You mean seize? Attached are pics – and yes, it was pretty hot and although I had a 20% discount water, it was workable as you’ll see in the picture. It of course set up, so I would put a warning about water discounting, but it didn’t superheat or anything – its luscious stuff. Oh, BTW, warning warning – I made a bright custard yellow background to stand out against the purple/red of the rhubarb, and when the FO hit it, it turned sort of mucous green!!! I touched up the yellow, but it wasn’t looking good, but CP miracle, its as you see the picture. It hasn’t faded out, but its not quite as milk-shaky now. Delish just the same

And …. Back to Soap!

October 12, 2007 Filed Under: Bramble Berry News

After three days straight of cupcake talk, The Soap Queen Blog is back to soap and making toiletries … at least for the next few days!

Bramble Berry had some exciting arrivals this week:

Champagne Fragrance Oil – Perfect for the turning of the new year (2008 is here very soon!), Champagne is a limited edition but could easily go to our permanent line if there are enough requests. This fragrance smells just like champagne or the fizzy bubbles in ginger ale. The scent is incredibly strong and long lasting in CP soap and behaves like a dream when soaping. It’s a unique and versatile scent that can be blended to make all manner of Italian iced soda scents or general pop scents (mix it with a berry for a yummy soda pop scent).

Kumquat Fragrance Oil – We had the Kumquat tester loaf out at Otion and out of the 15 of them set out, the Kumquat universally elicited “Wows!” and “I want this!” Kumquat is along the lines of pomegranate – bright, fresh, purple with notes of green. It performs admirably in cold process soap and is divine in lotions. Kumquat is considered one of the hot new trends for 2008 so you’ll be seeing this fragrance (along with other purples like pomegranate, mangosteen and acai berry) showing up in bodycare and fine perfumes.

Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil – All hail the return of this versatile, sprightly oil! During the cold snap in 2004, Florida’s grapefruit production took a downturn, causing Grapefruit Essential Oil prices to take a massive upturn. The pricing has returned to somewhat normal levels though still not as low as 2004. We love to blend Pink Grapefruit with Spearmint Essential Oil for an uplifting cool treat. As an aromatherapy oil, Pink Grapefruit is associated with feelings of happiness and well being.

Look for Bramble Berry’s new Foaming Bottles & Candle Container glasses & deodorant style containers in the upcoming week on the site.

Things we’re testing this month: Conditioner-Maker (a chemical that you add water and fragrance to and viola! conditioner), jojoba beads, fragrances galore, and fennel essential oil.

Annoying customers all over America

April 26, 2007 Filed Under: Business Musings

Remember the dream of having a machine that would puff out a fragrance just at the right time during a movie to enhance your movie experience? The promise of the smell of a windy beach wafting through your living room right as our hero was sweeping our insipid heroine off her feet? That dot.com went bust.But, Wal Mart is back with the idea. Supposedly, by early summer, Wal Mart will be selling DVD’s with electronic kits that release smells at key moments during a movie.
I’m a bit dubious of this concept. Mostly because there are 3500 approved ingredients for fragrances that are used for skin applications and countless more for air fresheners. I suspect only a very small # of those aromachemicals can be put in their little box (and I’ve seen a mock up of it – it’s little, the size of a video tape). If only a limited # of the oleoresins used for manufacturing fragrances can be put into the box, this means that the end user will be left with simple formulations that smell somewhat like a windy beach, or a cherry pie, or mechanics grease but the end result will be subpar. Like smelling a very bad rose fragrance compared to a sophisticated blend by the world’s finest perfumer.

My thought is that the general public will not be placated by hideous, simple, synthetic blends that are mean to mimic what they’re watching on screen. Then again, betting against Wal-Mart doesn’t seem that smart given their amazing run.

Oh wait. Didn’t they just report that sales were down for the first time in years?