Late July Haul from Perfumers World.

 I placed another order from Thailand, to get in to some experimental fragrance compositions, as well as to revisit some old memories from one of my first perfume ingredients hauls, ever, from a supplier. I have some high-balance gift cards, so it wasn’t a problem to order these ingredients. Keep an eye out for future fragrance projects to come!

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Date: 2026-07-21

Item Price Quantity Total

Bay West Indies Essential Oil SKU: 7SP00048 1.30 2 3.50

Jungle Pepper Oil SKU: 7SL24626 4.10 2 9.10

Ginger Essential Oil SKU: 7SC00209 0.60 4 3.30

Alpha Isomethyl Ionone SKU: 3IW00300 0.23 2 1.36

Ambrofix SKU: 1UW16861 1.87 8 15.86

Ambroxan SKU: 1UW00036 2.52 5 13.50

Costus Olifac Iff SKU: 4UW09665 7.30 1 8.20

Dipropylene Glycol (DPG) SKU: 0ZW00165 0.07 50 4.40

Farnesol SKU: 3LW00187 1.35 2 3.60

Geranyl Formate SKU: 4RW00208 0.30 4 2.10

Iso E Super SKU: 3WY00244 0.14 8 2.02

Oud Base SKU: 6WU07495 2.04 4 9.06

Physeol SKU: 3WI00384 1.80 4 8.10

Timberol SKU: 3WW07134 1.06 4 5.14

Z11 HD 8.5 SKU: 5WU21414 2.00 2 4.90

Aurantiol - Methyl Anthranilate Schiffs Base SKU: 2NC00409 0.37 2 1.64

cis-3 Hexenyl Acetate 10% in DPG SKU: 5GF07561 0.12 5 1.50

cis-3 Hexenyl Benzoate SKU: 3GN00227 0.82 4 4.18

cis-3 Hexenyl Salicylate SKU: 3GO00229 0.52 4 2.98

cis-Jasmone SKU: 4JN00257 2.14 2 5.18

Hexanlactone-gamma SKU: 4DH02050 0.72 4 3.78

L-Carvone SKU: 4BB00088 0.22 4 1.78

Rhodinol Ex-Natural SKU: 7RB23711 1.50 4 6.90

Acetoin 10% in DPG SKU: 5DV09244 0.13 5 1.55

Alpha Damascone 10% in DPG SKU: 5IF07569 0.21 4 1.74

Amyl Salicylate SKU: 3OH00037 0.14 4 1.46

Benzaldehyde SKU: 4FN00049 0.18 8 2.34

Beta Homocyclocitral SKU: 4BC11314 7.60 1 8.50

Black Tea Base SKU: 6HE09224 0.29 8 3.22

Citral SKU: 4CC00111 0.16 2 1.22

Ethyl Amyl Ketone SKU: 4FY00173 1.10 4 5.30

Ethyl Benzoate SKU: 3NJ01315 0.13 4 1.42

Fixative 505 SKU: 4UY07514 2.30 5 12.40

Florol SKU: 3ML00192 0.10 10 1.90

Gamma Octalactone SKU: 4DD00331 0.47 8 4.66

Geranyl Phenylacetate SKU: 3RP04262 1.90 4 8.50

HELIOTROPAL SKU: 6VN21924 0.39 4 2.46

Isobutyl Quinoline SKU: 9UP00247 1.80 5 9.90

Isocyclocitral SKU: 4CA03618 0.77 2 2.44

Maple Lactone SKU: 1VE00286 0.71 10 8.00

Methyl Jasmonate SKU: 4JN15333 12.80 0.90

Methyl Pample Mousse SKU: 4FC11677 1.06 4 5.14

Nerolidol SKU: 3LM00319 0.17 4 1.58

Neryl Acetate SKU: 3RF05061 0.20 2 1.30

Piperonyl acetate SKU: 3VN06814 0.98 2 2.86

Pyralone SKU: 9UY19188 2.70 1 3.60

Rose Absolute Pentalol (Mefrosol) SKU: 4RM06950 0.97 4 4.78

Tetrahydro Geraniol SKU: 3RL03873 0.66 4 3.54

Tonkarome SKU: 2QV23715 0.25 10 3.40

Treemoss Absolute SKU: 8YT00576 5.45 1 6.35

Opoponax Essential Oil SKU: 7QC00336 4.40 4 18.50

Styrax Resinoid SKU: 2QS00421 1.97 5 10.75

Tolu Balsam Absolute (Solid) SKU: 8QV18357 3.00 5 15.90

Opoponax Absolute SKU: 7QC00561 2.95 5 15.65

Labdanum Absolute SKU: 8UQ08219 1.20 5 6.90

Galbanum Essential Oil SKU: 7GQ00200 2.65 5 14.15

Agarwood Oil Siam 10% in DPG SKU: 5WU15067 2.80 4 12.10

Cananga Essential Oil SKU: 7NJ00081 0.30 10 3.90

Caribbean Rum Extract SKU: 8FY24655 8.80 1 9.70

Champaca Flower Essential Oil SKU: 7NJ07740 2.54 5 13.60

Citrus Hystrix Lime Leaf Essential Oil SKU: 7CK01077 0.56 2 2.02

Holy Basil Essential Oil SKU: 7HS08359 0.84 5 5.10

Immortelle Absolute SKU: 8NY23449 5.60 2 12.10

Lavender Green Absolute SKU: 8HY09000 1.86 5 10.20

Lemongrass Essential Oil SKU: 7CC00272 0.21 5 1.95

Mimosa Absolute SKU: 8NG00307 7.12 2 15.14

Nepal Pepper Co2 Extract SKU: 8CS23654 4.40 2 9.70

Osmanthus Absolute SKU: 8ND00346 18.14 1 19.04

Pine Needle Essential Oil SKU: 7KH08741 0.35 10 4.40

Spruce Essential Oil SKU: 7KH00888 0.80 10 8.90

Tobacco Absolute 10% in DPG SKU: 5TH13846 1.33 5 7.55

Ylang Comoros Extra Essential Oil SKU: 7NJ23639 1.20 5 6.90

Coffee CO2 Extract Organic SKU: 8ET23923 2.00 5 10.90

Subtotal 467.59

Here’s a look at the unboxing. It turns out that I ordered 82 ingredients, and 79 of them arrived neatly packed in 40-count boxes. There are droppers included. Some of the powders I ordered wouldn’t fit in the smaller jars, for the size I was ordering, so they went in to larger aluminum containers. It’s a really neat package, and Perfumer’s World has really upped their game, in terms of packaging. The great thing about their platform is that you can order sizes as small as 1 gram, so you can audition costly or obscure ingredients without as much investment as you’d put in, if you had to order 4 or 5 mL at a time, for a minimum amount, per item. They charge a $0.90 bottling fee, which is a great trade off option, for the flexibility in minimum amounts. So, you’ll see that I ordered many ingredients, some of them as little as 1 gram or 2 grams, in cases where the product is costly, or very strongly fragrant, or obscure, and rarely or hardly used. 

I mixed together an inventive chypre-Fougere style fragrance, to kick off trying out this batch of ingredients that I ordered, and, for the most part, the recipe remained self-contained within the ingredients listed here. 

I made a fragrance with tree moss absolute, fixative 505, green lavender absolute, a drop of osmanthus absolute, timberol, z11hd, iso e super, ambrofix, maple lactone, some dilute ethyl benzoate, heliotropal, isocyclocitral, beta homocyclocitral, methyl pamplemousse, cis-jasmone, a tiny bit of West Indies bay oil, a good helping of tonkarome, agar wood oil siam 10%, isobutyl quinoline, pyralone, a small touch of bergamot, agrestic by palette naturals, clary amber, cashmeran, and cervolide.

This was my ingredients list, for the most part, although I found that I had added a few ingredients not listed. Then, as I discussed the formulation with Google Gemini, I decided to put in some more tolu balsam, which is a solid resin material, to make the fragrance sweeter. I also added a slight citrus ginger opening, and the overall effect is a mossy, dense forest woodsy type of setting, intensely fresh at the opening, with an almost psychedelic brightening of the senses, upon first encountering it, due to the strange qualities of the tree moss, which was supposed to be one of the main features (substituted for oak moss, since I don’t really like that ingredient that much), along with the green lavender absolute, which is a very natural and true-to-form lavender that doesn’t smell as common as regular lavender oils that you might be accustomed to. The other main feature ingredients are isobutyl quinoline and pyralone, which I had tried out, long ago, in a former haul, where all of the ingredients had since been lost, and even though I was somewhat at odds with the smell of these fragrances, initially, back then, I had a sort of longing for that sort of smell, again, and I felt that I could put together a better formulation than with ingredient purchases that I had put together in previous years. These ingredients impart a characteristically leathery feature to the fragrance. I added some spruce, and some imaginative ingredients, like osmanthus absolute, which brought the fragrance to an apricot leg of the journey, and it eventually got buried, as the fragrance became more complex. So, the result is a pretty masculine-styled scent, with a fresh, green and citrus opening to it, leathery, foresty, and woodsy accents to it, with mossy, lavender notes, over a sweet base of tonka and tolu balsam, essentially. It’s styled upon a classic formulation foundation, as discussed, above, so it smells like it fits in, pretty well, in the fragrance world, of wearing fragrances out and about, in public. I added a minimum, or a trace, in some cases, of ingredients, so the creation process was pretty restrained and well-planned, I feel.

* maybe a room spray, for the time being. On one hand, it doesn’t smell very modern, and it was my first take on this fragrance type, so it could be better, I figure.

The package arrived by the end of the week, as it took a couple of days to process the order, bottle and prepare the ingredients, package them, etc., before they were sent out (the ingredients came individually shrink-wrapped, as well). Then, the package was sent from Thailand on Wednesday (Thursday, Thailand time), and the item was shipped via DHL express, so it arrived very promptly by early Friday afternoon. The tracking was updated regularly, so I was staying on top of the package status. The package incurred an additional fee of $55 or so, from customs, but I was able to cover that without a problem.

September 2025 haul from Perfumer Supply House - Product Review

 Recently, I had a perfumer’s ingredients inspiration strike, after having become fascinated by a product that I had made, out of vanilla beans, for discovering that it greatly soothed my neck and back joint pain, upon application. It was a new discovery, so it was exciting, for me. I started to branch out, in seeking out other vanilla fragrances, and I decided to head over to The Grove, a wonderful Los Angeles landmark outdoor shopping mall, adjacent to Miracle Mile. It features popular shopping destinations such as an Apple Store, a Barnes and Noble book shop, a large farmer’s market, which is one of the most popular draws of the location, with dozens of restaurants and food and snack specialty shops. There’s also a fantastic Nordstrom department store, that I had visited, fondly, several times before. I figured that they would have a good selection of men’s fragrances, that I would enjoy sampling, and I wanted to smell Tom Ford’s Vanilla Sex, knowing that Tom Ford’s fragrances draw a lot of attention and fanfare, and that they also feature fragrance compositions that highlight singular notes of aroma compounds. 

As it turns out, the men’s fragrance section at Nordstrom, at The Grove, is very spacious and extensive. It goes far beyond a single rack of colognes, with numerous other racks covering a large space to walk through. I was also on the lookout for a fragrance that I had admired, recently, that I had trouble identifying - a powerful and compelling smoky woods fragrance note, that happens to be Ambrocenide, which is one of the aroma compounds I purchased, this time around, from Perfumer Supply House. I was glad to discover that I had found the ingredient I had been seeking out. Here’s a photo of the ingredients I purchased. 

My fragrance ingredients haul of 9 items, from Perfumer Supply House, which I’m very pleased with.

I was pleased to find Ultravanil online, at Perfumer Supply House, which is one of the primary components of Tom Ford’s Vanilla Sex, and I got to smell the fragrance at Nordstrom; it’s very pleasant, and an alluring vanilla scent, that’s quite beautiful. Being that I could purchase Ultravanil, myself, from Perfumer Supply House, I got to looking around the site for other ingredients that sounded compelling, for throwing together a nice vanilla fragrance composition of my own. 

September 2025 haul from Perfumer Supply House

After I placed the order, I started thinking about what sorts of fragrances would go with a vanilla-based composition, and I thought about rum, which is another common tropics delight that goes well with vanilla. Perfumer Supply House also happens to carry Rum Extract on Crodamol, and it’s a very lovely rum fragrance ingredient. It smells just right, like rum. I took some influence of tropical and sunny types of fragrances to add, such as Melonal, which is a delightfully refreshing melon note, and Sinensal Natural ex Orange, which is a true-to-form representation of orange. I threw in some light splashes (several drops) of each, in to my fragrance composition, and I put a helping of Tonka Bean Absolute in, as well, which complements vanilla nicely. Periploca is a wonderful vanilla almond gourmand type of fragrance, and it feels very familiar, not too spicy or exotic. The floral ingredients that I had purchased, Jonquille and Narcisse Absolutes, are moderately floral fragrances, with a prominent green character to them. I put in just one drop of the Jonquille. 5 drops of Ambrocenide were very powerful, in the fragrance composition I made, so I doubled the amount of Ultravanil to about 21 drops, which balanced out the composition nicely. Cetalox is a nice, pungent, musky compound, and it goes nicely in the mix. 

The fragrance spray bottle I made up turned out to be a very pleasant and fine smelling fragrance, and I feel like I could enjoy this one, rather than buy Vanilla Sex, outright, although the Ultravanil ingredient tip was a good one. It’s a very lovely and powerful vanilla ingredient, and the spray I made smells very nice. The total cost of the ingredients was just over $200 or so, and I feel like this investment is possibly the best selection of ingredients, for the price, out of all of my fragrance ingredients hauls I’ve ever done. This fragrance is very satisfactory. Feel free to try it out, for yourself!

The iPigeon.institute fragrances collection - Winter / Spring 2024 Composition - an agricultural archaeology set of finds! (Stub, updating)

 This composition was conceived of, as perhaps my most near-to-my-heartfelt reminisces of aroma ingredients that I'd previously owned, and lost, or used up, to entirety. The primary component that I was fawning over, conceivably, as for a shot at a new fragrance composition - perhaps a bit fierce and pissy (cat pee, for that matter), ends up being Blackcurrant Bud Absolute. 

This composition came on the heels of having done a couple months' spree of owning retail Dior men's fragrances - Sauvage Elixir, and then, Homme Sport (2021, I believe), which was nice, for me - the confidence and cleanliness factors being my primary concerns, as I was living out and about, in the wild, so to speak, with no indoors shelter for myself, going on extended periods of months, with this being the case. In this instance, with this new composition I had in mind, I wanted a powerful, synthetic, perhaps, citrus fragrance component, so I chose Dimethyl Octenone, perhaps as a result of having had a wild stroke of success, in one of my former compositions involving a specialized full-scale vanilla bean extraction, at home. This ingredient is almost noxious, in its petrochemical odor component, yet it blends quite effectively, in the case of this particular stub fragrance that I wore, for a month, with the addition of Cashmeran, for a rich and fully featured musk (sort of) woodsy effect, and, in this instance, a very long-lasting fragrance base - a dual-edged sword, in some sense, which would be whittled down, of the benefits and burdens of such a thing to consider, for a nearly all-hours, and several settings to accommodate, in smelling appropriate, such as living in a group home situation, as well as being out in the metropolitan parts of town, and on transit vehicles, for example. Too much, or something inappropriate, and offensive, to a sensible palate, would perhaps construe unexpectedly heavy-handed consequences for me to face, as I hadn't planned on changing my daily routine, of feeding the birds, around town.

The initial stub composition:

80 mL isopropyl alcohol (70%)

3/4 gram Blackcurrant Bud Absolute

13 drops Dimethyl Octenone

1 mL Cashmeran

This fragrance composition served fairly well, as it was a bit raucous and fresh, in some sense, yet it definitely would come off as stub, as far as fragrance compositions go, yet - that was last month. I got by, regardless of anything - they are professional grade fragrance ingredients; I felt that isopropyl alcohol could be sufficient enough to get by on, as far as alcohol content went, on account of that I feel that people could be forgiving enough - I'm by and large, not completely wrecked, as far as my personal and outward behaviors, amongst others, and, on top of that, I was now housed at a semi-permanent location, and the people there are mostly chill. I felt that, as always, fragrance could be, somewhat - my signature imprint upon people's impressions upon me, given that I was healing up from chronic pains, and I had to keep to myself, primarily, for rest, and for recovery, and I feel like I'd made sufficient progress on that note, in to the current month. 

This month, the ingredients I'd purchased are, as follows:

Yuzu essential oil - 4 mL

Sandalwood Mysore essential oil - 4 mL

Cocoa Absolute - 5 grams

Black Pepper essential oil - 4 mL

Lavandin Grosso (Oregon) essential oil - 8 mL

Tonka Bean Absolute 30% in ethyl alcohol

... I think that that's all, for that order. 

Oh, and I found a perfectly suited vanilla component, in the food aisle - vanilla bourbon - I'll have to update more on this, at some point; maybe just a quick note - the initial three ingredients, along with some manually-dabbed on vanilla bourbon - created a nearly impeccable true frankincense fragrance - just those four components. I guess that it would be more impactful to encounter that notion and slight composition discovery, in person - seeing the ingredients mixed together, having some reference material at hand, and, in realizing the historical significance of coming to such a discovery - I felt that it was significant. Along the way, in mixing this new fragrance composition, which I'll detail fully, soon - I also happened upon Jo Malone's Tonka and Myrrh - at least, the fair rendition, thereof; at least, of what I could remember, of it, for having had some buyer desires for that product, at some point, in the recent past.

On top of all of this, I felt that the fragrance was lacking in fullness and diversity in fragrance components, in the citrus department - I'd previously owned fragrances such as Hermes' fruits-inspired eaus, which are generally light, simple - perhaps deceptively so; perhaps elegant, would be the proper term, on second thought. I wanted to do something similar, yet not be tossed off, in to the "cheap" fragrance-making guy, who failed the ingredients, and my potential, I felt - so I went for some local buys on Bergamot, Tangerine, and Grapefruit essential oils. It came out great - although I did impart a spritz of one thing, and another, for some unattainable effects and ingredient components - I felt that perhaps corporate would not stomp on me, for being a true fragrance enthusiast, researcher, and scholar.

Oh, yeah. I also forgot the Carnation Essential oil, that I tried to include, in my second order.

I feel that it came out pretty nice, although people still aren't speaking to me, much, ha. Isopropyl alcohol is a bit of a challenge, and against the grain, as far as fine fragrance is concerned, but I had a much more topically-applied, medicinal slant to my composition's initial intentions and inspirations that I wanted to bring to life.

Product Review - Maison Margiela “Replica:” Jazz Club - Eau de Toilette.

This time, I tried out an unexpected “newcomer” fragrance. 

I hadn’t heard of Maison Margiela, prior to showing up at Nordstrom, out at the Del Amo Fashion Center, where I’d intended to show up to purchase Jo Malone’s Myrrh and Tonka - Cologne Intense (currently $160-$220 USD), as a departure from men’s fragrances I’d already tried, and loved, such as Dior Homme ($95-$175 USD - 1.7-6.7 oz.) or Viktor and Rolf Spicebomb ($134, 3.04 oz.). Prior to showing up, I’d tried to pore over exactly what I was trying to get at, here and there, in maintaining a fragranced personal profile, for people (not really) - the thought had come up, in my mind, as a suggestion, after all. Sure, Myrrh and Tonka smells great, but was it beyond something I could reasonably mix up, myself, somewhat, if I’d just purchased various component ingredients, myself? On one hand, Tonka bean is a bit of a contentious ingredient, being that it is potentially toxic. After the fact (of my purchase), I got some feedback on things. Supposedly, the toxins had been painstakingly researched and studied, as far as the end product fragrance composition, in question, and they’d duly been removed, from the consumer fragrance product - not all that far-fetched, to suppose. 

Then, at the men’s fragrance rack, at Nordstrom, the merchandising display winds up being a different story. I chose to do retail, at a department store, for one thing, for the sake of the fact that they have an on-site testing and auditioning space and capability, as far as product offerings, in fragrance - it’s something that e-commerce solutions, as far as branching out, in to something new, can - at times, be lacking in, resulting in purchases that lead to buyer’s remorse, perhaps, or a lack of diversification, which can wear down on things; concepts such as innovation. On the bottom of the fragrance rack, there were these products, named Replica, as a brand, which I had never heard of, before. I figured - “hmm… Replica? As though they might, somewhat, be fairly high-end aiming, (somewhat) bargain alternatives (at $150 USD, for 3.4 fl. oz.) to the more high-end and more well-established luxury lines, such as Jo Malone - in this case, I’d say that this brand is a bit of a newcomer, at Nordstrom, out here, whereas Creed products, far more expensive, which were placed at the top of the same section, on the same part of the fragrance rack, Jo Malone, right below, and some other brand, next one down, with Replica products seated at the bottom of the rack. My analytical mind had me supposing that perhaps these ones were a viable knock-off sort of thing, or otherwise cheaper alternative product, leading me astray from fulfilling my initial intention, in procuring a new fragrance for myself - so I don’t smell, while I’m out and about, in public, feeding the birds, and such. I do routinely become sweaty, and oh - what a travesty, if I end up smelling bad, as a known pigeon-feeding bum.

This is the product, similarly, as I’d encountered it, as a sample bottle, in-store, at Nordstrom. Maison Margiela’s Replica fragrance line touts itself as a rendition, if you would, upon a notable theme, or experience, per se. I found “Jazz Club” to be a suitable attention-grabbing alternative, given my initial intention to purchase Jo Malone’s Myrrh and Tonka cologne, for a fair sum of money more, on this instance of purchasing a bottle of cologne.

As it turns out, the general field of relevance, contextually - in a sensory sort of consideration, given the two top competitors, here - Myrrh and Tonka versus Jazz Club, I found my choice to wind up being reasonably within a similar olfactory ballpark, with Myrrh and Tonka’s lavender top notes becoming a citrusy and floral theme, with primofiore lemon and neroli, in Jazz Club. In addition, I’d also recently - by turn of fate, been interested in Rum, as a fragrance ingredient - quite expensive, as it turns out, and I feel that it’s a sophisticated ode to myrrh, on one hand, with its complexity and breadth, in a fragrance composition. The unifying features, between either one of them, were the sweet base notes of either one - Tonka bean versus vanilla bean: similar, in an olfactory sense, yet, upon sampling both fragrances in the store, I found Myrrh and Tonka to have a bit, perhaps, too much richness, in the bottom notes, and I felt that I would, at some point, measuring out a use-case scenario, of me being out and about, and sweating, and stuff - of that I’d develop a viciously rich musk about myself - easily offensive, if I ever got lazy, and I’d wind up “not realizing,” so to speak, how I smell, to other people, whereas I found Jazz Club’s features to accommodate the same general aesthetic, while remaining a bit bright, I’d say, as far as the overall effect, of the fragrance, whereas I could layer it with some still-there citrus and woodsy fragrances I have, in small amounts - Eau d’orange verte, by Hermes, and Dior Homme. Together, the trio of the three fragrances is deliciously elegant, like a luxuriantly-enveloped citrus rind, upon close examination, with the middle and base notes becoming more evident, with diffusion, starting at a slight distance, perhaps, with a slighter sniff of the nose. In my fragrance-wearing oeuvre and repertoire, of purchases-past, I’d enjoyed having what I’d say, would amount to a similar citrus-led layering of colognes, such as that the Hermes botanicals line of products would be most suitable - for instance: Eau de Citron Noir had been a recent favorite, with Dior Homme and Spicebomb as my layering choices - quite complex, in that instance. 

After purchasing, I tried on some of my choice, in purchasing, and I found it to have a delightful olfactory sense of that the fragrance imparted a notion of having taken a shower - ostensibly due to an addition of C-12 (I’d sensed - both Lauric Alcohol, as well as Aldehyde C-12; fairly bitter), with Alcohol C-12 (Lauric Alcohol) being the characteristic “just-showered” scent, of all scents, I’d say, and C-12 Aldehyde being a bit controversial for me, since I’m allergic to drinking alcohol, and overall, I found that this fragrance easily affects me with a notable depressive and sedated effect. It was my choice, though, in trying this one out, and perhaps it’s not all that much, to my detriment, overall. I’m trying to do life as representatively (as much as possible) not overly, or obviously, stimulated - it’s simply too cheaply and easily a topic of controversy, and I strive to be an honest role model of sustainability in my enterprise model, so I don’t get thrown out of town - quite literally, that, which could wind up, being the case, for me. I figure - if I take the bottle out, with me, on a walk, and with my ionic mineral carry-along profile, and with my travels equating to some form of milling, further, of the product, the fragrance would, ostensibly, mill out the aldehyde, or I could throw some other stuff in there, since the bottle actually allows for the entire spray top, and “cap” of the bottle, to be removed - allowing for additions, or refills, for example, another ingredient, or entire fragrance, could be put in to this bottle of Jazz Club, thus transforming the presence of this contentious (for me, being allergic to “drinking” alcohol) Aldehyde C-12 ingredient in to something altogether unexpected, and far-removed, sensory-wise, in the fragrance composition, in my experience with aldehyde C-12.

A nice touch, that the bottle’s top is removable, allowing for refills. 

I’ll leave this review, at that, for the time being. Thanks for reading :)

An [imaginary] day of recognition for iPigeon.institute and for me, Jay Ammon.

 I stayed out for the weekend. It was exhausting, but I got the birds fed, most definitely. 

A couple of notable things happened, both of them in succession to one another. As I was hanging out in Grand Park, taking inventory of my day, and catching up on internet aspirations, and such, a lady came up to me. She somehow intuited that I was the perfumer of the area. I had been cleaning out the spray mechanism of my new tropical perfume spray, Southern Critters Skeet Skeet, and I let out a few spritzes of it. It’s an unexpectedly vastly diffuse spray, and, as such,  it’s suitable for environmental, rather than personal fragrancing. I was sitting by the top of the water fountain when she came up to me, and she kindly commented on the beauty of the perfume that had enveloped the area, and she asked for a sample. I gave her several milliliters in a sample spritzer, and I applied a label on to the spritzer, with my information, so she could follow me, and contact me, in the future, if she was interested in my developments in perfumery, etc.

That was the first thing that happened. After that, I heard a richly-developed remote-sensing episode play out;  both somewhat a social work awards and recognition showcase and a 12-step self-help meeting, all in one. They had gathered to recognize the work I had been involved in doing, as far as keeping the birds fed, around town. It was a dearly heartfelt outpouring of support for me, and while they were at it, they had also reprimanded, publicly, the ones who had been persecuting me, as part and facet of the 12 steps nature of the program, as it were. 

I came home and rested for a few days, and now, my time is up, here. I’ve got to go back out and feed the birds, but the recognition I had received, through this “imaginary” program which had played out, turned out to be very therapeutic, and I feel as though perhaps I can be healed of my drug addiction, at least, for now. Thank you so much, people of social work, in the downtown Los Angeles area, for putting this together for me. It really helps out. 

Product Review: New Haul of fragrance ingredients from PerfumersWorld.com.

 It's only been two months since I started doing this stuff (again). (I'd previously, back from around 2008-2012 had the budget to do fragrancing, with essential oils from Whole Foods, mostly). This time around, though, it was serious. I'd discovered online retail and wholesale suppliers of fragrance compounds and aroma ingredients (essential oils and absolutes), and I finally had my living situation and circumstances such that I could muster pulling off some mail order purchases, and develop my fragrance-making hobby successfully. My latest haul was for over $1250 and it got me over 70+ quality ingredients, of my choosing, priced by the gram, as the website www.perfumersworld.com does, as their retail fragrance supply basis, as an e-commerce website and organization, based out of Thailand. 

My summer of 2021 Perfumer's World fragrance ingredients haul - over 70 ingredients of my choice, given 2 months of experience and shopping around, at this point; I had my picks, and I got what I wanted, good and all, for the most part. 

This time around, I was interested in procuring mostly highly-prized standards and classics, such as rose de mai, I got jasmine absolute, jasmine flowers, methyl jasmonate, jasmine sambac absolute, frangipani absolute, indole crystals, for reconstituting these flowers, artificially (by design), and many other classics of fragrances beloved, and the well-known plants, herbs, flowers, and trees that provide these lovely fragrances, as well as some fragrance industry insider tricks ingredients, such as Schiff's Base, which is also used to reconstitute flower absolutes. I also dived richly in to the world of classic musks, of the global fragrance research and design houses; a history of musks, that I'd procured, as you would see, from my listed purchases, below. I also decided to experiment, slightly, with hormonal and mood-altering pheromone compounds, such as truffle concentrate, to see how they would affect the fragrance-wearing experience. 

I made a neat-o fresh, minty, cool, phenolic and narcotic rich floral essences composition out of this, after I had spent some time protecting the shipment, once it had gotten in to my possession, delivered by Fed-Ex. The shipment from www.perfumersworld.com took about a week, or so, to arrive, and I had security concerns over receiving it, since I go out, in to town, to feed the birds, during the day, and there were some delays, aside from that, in various stops that the shipment had gone through, such as being held up in Taiwan, and then the package went to Alaska, and Tennessee, even, before it got squared away in the Los Angeles area, finally. I decided to have the package held at a Fed-Ex location, for me to pick up, at my leisure. I didn't play with the ingredients much, during the initial receipt phase, because I was more interested in protecting it, and keeping the bottles sealed. Opening up a haul of fragrance ingredients produces a vastly diffuse aroma experience that spreads in to the extent of neighboring households, and it draws attention to the fragrance maker, and the goings-on of making a fragrance, which is easily an enviable position to be in, given a standard neighborhood, around town. 

All things considered, and that being said, I came up with an appreciably fine(-ish), or notably novel, and "good" fragrance composition, with the inspiration behind mixing which of these purchased new ingredients ought be, being an indole cornmint (I was big on cornmint and hay absolute coming to me), floral fresh narcotic standards of perfumery history-"easy," such as rose de mai, jasmine sambac, and frangipani absolutes being the main fragrance feature components, chamomile, included,  along with a full array of several or more musks, which, this time around, with this purchase, brought a veritable selection of poignant, delicate, nuanced, clean, fresh, and beautiful musks, of the musks of standards established, throughout history, in perfumery - muscone, Macrolide, Helvetolide, Cosmone, Celestolide, Amberfix, and Velvione; I added some Vitamin E, and solubizer, some patchouli, heavy on the pink pepper, and Sugandha Kokila, an Indian fragrance, for some classic and exotic appeal. There was raspberry ketone, ethylene brassylate, phenylacetic acid, lyral, coriander, marjoram, and plenty of oud to it. All in all, I was generally reserved, about how much of each I had put in, and extra-careful, on some of the inclusions. It turned out fabulous. I highly recommend this purchasing list, as a first-resort reference for beginners and aspirants in fragrance composition mixing, and I highly recommend www.perfumersworld.com, for the ingredients purchase. They sell by the gram, and are therefore as economical as need be, while maintaining a high standard of ingredient purity and shipment delivery handling, and customer service.