Homemade Perfume: Create Exquisite, Naturally Scented Products to Fill Your Life with Botanical Aromas: McCoy, Anya: 9781624145858: Books

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FREE Delivery is available to Prime members. To join, select "Try Amazon Prime and start saving today with FREE Delivery" below the Add to Cart button and confirm your Prime free trial.Important:  Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a monthly membership.Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Create Custom Perfumes the Natural WayThis unprecedented, comprehensive guide from renowned perfumer Anya McCoy is an inspiring resource for anyone interested in creating artisanal perfume at home. Discover simple step-by-step methods for making perfume without harsh chemicals. Jump right in, using local plants and common household ingredients. Soon you’ll be building your own scent collection and creating unforgettable gifts for friends and family.This book covers a variety of techniques for capturing fragrances from natural materials, making it easy to choose the project that works for your schedule and experience level. Source your own organically grown botanicals, and enjoy the earth-friendly benefits of creating your own essential oils and extractions sustainably. Make your own all-natural perfumes, room and linen sprays, body butters, massage oils, and more. Explore the nuances of scent blending to create delightful fragrances that are unique to you. Packed with easy methods and expert guidance, this book will become an indispensable reference as you grow into a confident scent designer.“In Homemade Perfume, Anya showcases both her depth of knowledge of natural fragrant materials and her comprehensive experience in working with them, showing us how to produce wonderfully fragrant oils, tinctures, butters, and more.”― Robert Tisserand, founder of the Tisserand Institute“This is an essential guide for every student of natural perfumery.”― Mindy Green, aromatherapist, herbalist, and coauthor of Aromatherapy“Anya is a master of natural perfumery and highly attuned to its many layers of craft. Those drawn to the art of weaving exquisite botanical essences into swoon-worthy fragrances will benefit richly from her insight and guidance.”― Alexandra Balahoutis, botanical perfumer and founder of Strange Invisible Perfumes“I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Anya McCoy for over 17 years, and what she doesn’t know about the world of natural perfumery isn’t worth knowing.”― Grant Osborne, founder and editor of basenotes.net"In Homemade Perfume, [Anya McCoy] gives you step by step instructions that are very clear, and with their help, you can make your own essential oils, tinctures, even hydrosols! ... The book is really nicely produced, clear, with a large number of photographs so you not only have instructions, but also have visual references to help you to understand exactly what to do, and how to do it in sequence. ... You really do get comprehensive advice here, and it is by far the best book I have seen on this subject." ―Blacknall Allen's A Perfume Blog"Homemade Perfume is a rather comprehensive DIY ‘treatise’’ on the art of traditional plant extraction methods, taking you through 6 clearly structured chapters, supported by beautiful pictures. Anyone with the slightest interest in the traditional methods of perfume-making will appreciate how easy it is to apply the guidelines that Anya McCoy generously shares thanks to her 40+ years of experience."―Cafleurebon"With a few well chosen plants for harvesting, and a few easy to gather tools, homemade perfume (and other scented products) is made beautifully possible step by step in the book Homemade Perfume by Anya McCoy."―Fragrantica"If I ever were to tackle a tincture, Homemade Perfume by pioneering natural perfumer Anya McCoy of Anya's Garden is where I’d start. In a nutshell, Homemade Perfume is a primer on how to extract scent from botanicals and turn it into personal and home fragrance. McCoy describes the basics of composing a fragrance ― for liquid perfume she recommends that a composition be about 20 percent top notes, 50 percent middle notes, and 30 percent base notes, for instance ― but also provides her own straightforward, tried-and-true recipes." ― Now Smell ThisAnya McCoy is acclaimed as a natural perfume pioneer and mentor to many in the art. She grew up in Philadelphia and delighted in fragrant plants from an early age visiting a neighbor’s rose garden, the pine grove in the nearby park, and raising flowers for her family. As a child who loved perfumes, she would play for hours, sniffing, applying, and analyzing the different fragrances. The hippie stores started to carry essential oils when she was in her teens, and her love of 100% natural aromatics blossomed.Moving to Berkeley at 20, she decided to study horticulture, botany, and landscape architecture to further her education in fragrant plants. Already a self-taught herbalist, Anya started to extract scent from the abundant fragrant plants of California. She discovered that tincturing and infusing plants for scent was different from herbal extracts and adapted and improved the processes. In the years that followed, she further experimented with distillation and enfleurage, perfecting them until the extracts were strong and beautiful enough to be used in perfumes.In 1976, she started studying perfumery, having found several books that detailed the secrets of the industry and began blending perfumes with 100% natural aromatics. An innate scientist and artist, she was able to develop methods and processes that suited an artisan perfumer and used them to create perfumes with an ancient history, made modern by innovative techniques.After receiving a BA in Economic Botany from the University of California and an MLA in Landscape Architecture from SUNY Syracuse, Anya worked for law firms, land developers, and municipalities. She found ways to weave scented plants into river walk, residential and downtown projects she designed and administered. In 1990 she was elected United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) District Manager for the Soil and Water District in Florida. In 1995, she became the South Florida seed tester and correspondent for Organic Gardening. Anya probably holds the unique position of being the only perfumer ever elected to a state office, and also writing for a national gardening magazine.Anya’s first perfume line was launched in 1991 in Miami, and the 100% natural perfumes were sold in hotels and boutiques in the South Florida area. She gathered a loyal following of celebrities and chefs who welcomed her on-site visits where she also promoted perfumes, fragrant gardens, and herb plants.In 2002, Anya started an ambitious natural perfumery project on Yahoo!, dedicating the focus of the group to educate about natural perfumery. Thousands of natural perfumers have been nurtured in the group, whether they practice the art on the hobbyist or professional perfumer level. The group now has over 2900 members who have access to the 50,000+ archived messages, extensive files, links, and other educational resources. The group contains the world's largest repository of information on natural perfumery.Subsequent to that, she moved to Miami, bought an Art Deco house and created gardens there to grow her own fragrant and edible tropical and subtropical plants year-round.Anya has been featured in Vogue, Palm Beach Cottages and Gardens, the New York Times, Glamour, Allure, Whole Living, and Glow (Canada). In addition to her retail line and custom perfume work, Anya also provides private label fragrance products to hotels, boutiques and perfume companies, developing natural fragrances for soaps, lotions, hair care, and other bath and body products.She has written numerous articles on natural perfumery and natural essences for online publications including Basenotes, Fragrantica, and her blog.In 2007, she began the first online natural perfumery course for distance-learning with the Natural Perfumery Institute, opening the world of natural perfumery study to an international student body who could not travel for education in this art. She authored the first perfumery textbook in America for this course and designed innovative charts, recording forms, and electronic data sheets for the students. Professional perfumery methods of weighing, dilution, and specific gravity were introduced to students in a systematic, rigorous curriculum. The importance of perfume industry standards being used by artisan perfumers is one of Anya’s prime goals as an educator and mentor.She is the owner and CEO of the Natural Perfumers Guild, an international consortium of businesses and individuals committed to natural fragrance, and she developed the Guild into a self-regulating organization that lobbies and works towards the protection of the perfumers and suppliers of natural fragrances.In 2013, she was invited to join the American Society of Perfumers, the first artisan perfumer to be so honored.Always involved in environmental issues, Anya stresses the need for perfumers to become more ecologically-minded, and to promote sustainable growing and processing of botanicals used in perfumery or home fragrance products. Demands for essential oils and other natural aromatics is putting a burden on the planet, and she urges those who can, to grow, and extract whatever fragrant materials they can to lessen that burden.Anya McCoy a singular authority in the world of fragrance as someone who nurtured and developed natural perfumery into the growing, vital community it has become.In addition to creating successful perfumes for her line Anya's Garden Perfumes, Anya is also the President of the Natural Perfumers Guild, an international association of over 150 natural perfumers, suppliers, associates, and friends. Anya is a much-beloved mentor and counselor to many in the natural perfumery field, and has made herself available for questions and has contributed commentary and articles in numerous online forums, including the Yahoo group, Basenotes, Perfume of Life, Cafleurebon, Fragrantica, and her blog.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness."...For a newbie like me, this is a perfect book to start with. The book explains the different methods to extract plants essences...." Read more"...Her breadth of knowledge and expertise is unmatched: botany, fragrance blending, and now at last, creating perfume from your own garden...." Read more"...I was able to read and use this book on my phone - very handy for a reference book. I found very few typos, apparently, some proofreaders still exist." Read more"...The methods are not magically written but forthright to help the novice and to use easy-to-obtain ingredients that won't break your piggy bank...." Read more"...They are not difficult...." Read more"...This book is well-written and well-designed. It seems care was taken to make the Kindle version actually usable which is, sadly, often not the case...." Read more"...The book is well put together, easy to read...." Read more"...it a few days before it was released, I am glad I did it is easy to understand and I cant wait to start experimenting!" Read more"...Anya has my own creative juices flowing because of the sheer beauty of the book.Now, why not 5 stars? It's a personal bitch with me...." Read more"Visually, this book is a work of art. But unlike many beautiful books, this one is also practical. For many years I've admired Anya's work...." Read more"...The pictures are also very well done...." Read more"This is a throughly written manual on homemade perfumes, presented beautifully...." Read more

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