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May 10 Online shopping at Les Parfums d'Isabelle
Yes I design bespoke perfumes but I also sell handmade and natural perfumes from my own personal collection. Whether you wish to treat yourself and get away from synthetics and chemicals or you wish to treat someone special with a unique and unforgettable gift at affordable prices, visit Les Parfums d'Isabelle and contact me if you wish to discuss your personalised perfume or fragrance.
Special perfume gifts from £18/€12/$35 - International secure online payment accepted.
March 07 DRAGON'S DEN IS INVESTING IN PERFUMES...It is not 'in vino veritas' but in 'perfume veritas' at the Dragon's Den. Against all odds, David Pybus, a chemist perfumer (not a natural one alas) - known as the Indiana Jones of perfumes - has secured an £80K investment to develop a range of perfume and eaux de toilette which includes the recreation of the last Titanic perfume, created by a German businessman who had taken samples with him to America and although surviving the drama, decided never to make perfumes again... Are you touched?? To view the broadcasted program about this adventure, go to:
Well even if as a natural perfumer I feel disappointed to know that such a dramatic scent is going to be recreated chemically, I would like to make a point here: perfume is an EMOTION. Nothing less. Nothing more. And there is a renewed interest from the public to rediscover long lost scents.
I receive requests nearly everyday from people who would like me to recreate smells which remind them of old memories. It can take a very long time for me to succeed doing this. Sometimes I do not succeed because there are some ingredients which are not even available anymore. There is a market to develop into replanting flowers like violet in Europe, in reinventing Nature.
I was recently telling a contact of mine who has invented a unique essential oil extraction process that people spend too much time trying to invent or copycat what has been invented rather than REINVENTING what has been lost. Perfume is a MEMORABILIA of the brain: scents have been stored into a part of it and are only waiting to come out. This is why it has been existing since the beginning of times and now that we are rediscovering some old scents and vials which have been buried underground for centuries, there is a demand, a need from people to link scents with a beautiful or dramatic story and relive the way the Ancients were living.
If you wish to read a more scientific explanation of the relationship between memory and scent, I invite you to read this New York Times article explaining the latest findings in brain and sleeping research:
March 02 Coconut makes a comebackCoconut oil makes a comeback
While nearly all the industrialised countries are discussing the issues of global warming and new alternative fuels, there is one fruit we all like to smell and to use that seems to be the topic of a wider plan for ''clean energy'': the coconut.In the Pacific countries and the Philippines, coconut oil is called the ''white gold'' and is about to take control over the traditional ''black gold'' which is the fuel the world is fighting for. Indeed, it was discovered soon after the 2nd World War that 5 coconuts can produce 1 liter of fuel and the greatest news is that it can be mixed with Diesel - without any modification to the tank or engine of your car! It is also great on the skin either used as a natural moisturiser or for darker skins, it is an excellent natural tanning oil. It soothes dry skins and penetrates nicely. That's why you will see coconut oil in many wonderful scented handmade soaps.
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