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Zurich perfumer Andy Tauer has an interesting post on his issues with sourcing ingredients.

The market for high quality essential oils, absolutes, resins and delicate synthetics is being grazed these days. The best quality goes to China. Yep. Because they buy a lot, and more and even more. Thus, buyers who used to be served with priority in the past because they were good buyers, find themselves second tier or third tier, fighting for high quality oils with companies such as Givaudan or IFF or others.

I’ve been lucky, I guess merely because I’m using small quantitites. But seeing what major perfumers have to go through in terms of sourcing is interesting, but a tad bit frightening, to say the least.

I did some perfume blending tonight. I used the ylang ylang mentioned below along with cedarwood and rose absolute.

During the commute to work this morning, I went through my notes from the perfume course I took. One thing that my teacher said sticks in my mind:

“Beware of people who complementcompliment you too much. They want something.”