Natural Perfumers Guild President Anya McCoy Announces
Online Natural Perfumery Classes
Registration for the Spring 2008 class which begins March 6, 2008 and is in session for one year is now underway.
Natural perfumes are enjoying a surge in popularity and many wish to try their hand at becoming a natural perfumer. Anya McCoy will be offering an online course to help you begin your training to becoming a perfumer. Whether you live in Paris or Patagonia, you will be able to access this learning module and enjoy the benefits of an education without having to travel.
Please visit Anya's Garden by clicking here to read more about this class.
Also, more information is available at the blog for the classes
Jasmine sambac "Grand Duke of Tuscany" from Anya's Garden
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2008 Aromatherapy Blending & Natural Perfumery Classes with Jeanne Rose
FEBRUARY 29 - March 2, 2008. Professional Blending of Essential Oils. San Francisco, CA $375 before Jan. 1 $400 after (enrollment limited to 10)
This workshop is to be an introduction to the Blending Essential Oils (EOs) for therapeutic purposes and for perfumery. The workshop is an important step to any one interested in blending essential oils for therapeutic healing either emotional or physical; for perfumery or for making your own products. It will help give inspiration and give direction for those deciding where to go with their aromatherapy studies. The workshop is designed to combine the academic and scientific with the magically subjective aspects of aromatherapy. Overall, it will show that there is art, craft and science to blending Essential oils. Class starts at 6:30 pm on Friday and ends 4 p.m. on Sunday. In San Francisco at the House of Aromatic Wonders. 219 Carl St, San Francisco, CA 94117. $375 (pif) before January 1, after $400.
MARCH 14-16, 2008 NATURAL PERFUMERY AND EXOTICS San Francisco, CA $399 before Jan. 1 $450 after (enrollment limited to 8-10)
Make ancient perfumes and make special scents for Love & Romance. Advance your natural perfumery skills with a systematic and logical progression from the basics of measurement to the sophistication of complex perfumery. Learn myriad techniques, skills and uses of equipment for making solid and liquid perfumes. Learn the three ways of verbalizing a blend or single scent. Learn the nuances and olfactory texture of exotic essential oils, absolutes, waxes, concretes, alcohols and carrier oils. Work hands-on to go beyond formulas in books and expand personal expertise and repertoire. Class starts at 6:30 pm on Friday and ends 4 p.m. on Sunday. In San Francisco at the House of Aromatic Wonders. 219 Carl St, San Francisco, CA 94117. $399 before January 1, pif or $450 after. MARCH 28-31, 2008 NATURAL BOTANICAL PERFUMERY PART II San Francisco, CA $399 before Jan. 1 $450 after (enrollment limited to 8) Continue your Perfumery class with Part II. We will make bases and accords, and talk more about tinctures absolutes, concretes and other perfume ingredients. Includes your supplies. (Enrollment limited to 8 - and you must have taken the Part I Natural Perfumery course within the last 3 years.) $399 before January 1, 2008. $450 after.
www.jeannerose.net and e-mail info@jeannerose.net or call 415-564-6785