MainResourcesCommunityShopBlogForumHelpSearchCalendarLoginRegister

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 24, 2012, 09:31:35 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search
    Advanced search

News
Welcome to the Melting Pot Café, a forum dedicated to the cosmeholic who wants to talk bath, body and bubbles.  Our friendly community is growing and with the ideas, inspiration and experience all in one place, how appropriate the name Melting Pot. 

Whether you are just looking for a finished product, new to the craft or have years of experience, you will always be a welcomed new ingredient to our Melting Pot Smiley 

Don't forget to visit our main site where you will find lots of resources, recipes, Fresholi community and supplies!!  (Accessed via the green menu bar above)

Stats
267546 Posts in 17368 Topics by 960 Members
Latest Member: sandyrs
+  Fresholi | Melting Pot Café
|-+  Introduce Yourself
| |-+  Introduce yourself to the boards
| | |-+  A nose from France with a passion for spas!		 « previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 Print
Topic: A nose from France with a passion for spas!  (Read 465 times)
Frenchlily
Newbie
*
Posts: 6


Perfume composer


WWW
« on: April 14, 2008, 06:33:56 PM »

Hello Fresholi members,

First thank you for accepting me into your lovely and informative forum... My name is Isabelle. I am a French creative perfumer making natural perfumes (and aromatherapy blends) based on essential oils, absolutes and concretes. I have been doing this since a very earlier age when I lived in a beautiful Pacific island, surrounded with the smell of tropical flowers and coconut! I have always macerated flowers in coconut oil  Pot and this combined with my travelling all over the world including buying and selling spices in Africa led me to become a perfumer. I sell my perfume collection on my website www.lesparfumsisabelle.co.uk

I am currently finishing my studies to obtain my diploma in Aromatherapy and am also learning aromatherapy massage although I am already a Taurumi massage specialist. I am also developing bespoke aromatic fragrances as part of my olfactory marketing services.

I recently became more and more interested in the more cosmetic aspect of the beauty industry since I am having more and more demands from clients for bespoke spa products and natural household products so my hope is to find experts on Fresholi to learn more and more about developing creams and lotions or to share business. I used to buy creams and bath lotions from French laboratories but I want to know what is put in my client's creams!!

My personal contribution will obviously be more about natural perfumes, fragrances and aromas for which I am passionate and will always be happy to share my expertise.

I look forward to sharing on this great forum!

Isabelle
Logged
‘’My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.’’ Charles Baudelaire
EJ
Global Mod Award Winner
Hero+ Member
*
Posts: 22997


HP Soap is NOT rough and soft!


WWW
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 06:39:49 PM »
Hello and Welcome Isabelle.

We've just had a perfume swap - but no doubt there will be another.
Logged
ElaineJ................soap and other stuff
FaceBook
Helen
Founder
Hero+ Member
*****
Posts: 23004


Here's to 2012!!


WWW
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2008, 07:08:59 PM »
oo la la....  How wonderful.  A perfumist, just the lady  Wink  This is something I am getting more and more interested in myself.  You may well find your brains being severely picked  Grin

A very warm welcome to the forum.  Have a browse around the threads, many questions and answers already happened and do feel free to join the discussions.  We are a friendly bunch (with one or two slightly crazy ones).

I very much look forward to chatting with you around the boards and do feel free to start new topics  Grin

Love the website by the way  Wink
Logged
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Blog:  http://fresholi-bites.blogspot.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fresholi
K
Hibernating
Sr. Member
*
Posts: 811
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2008, 07:16:11 PM »
Bonjour Isabelle, welcome to this lovely forum, I'm getting very curious about the whole perfumer thing myself.  We used to crush rose petals as children & stuff lavender into our pillows, but I think all kids probably did! Off to take a look at your website.

Mangtout! (its an English thing  Muttley)

Best wishes
Karen
Logged
Corrie
Global Mod Triple Award Winner
Hero+ Member
***
Posts: 7938
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2008, 07:52:38 PM »
Hello Isabelle.
Welcome to the forum. Great to have you hear. I take my hat off to anyone who can blend EO's, it's something I have great difficulty in.
Will go and have a wee look at your website too.
Hope you like it here.
Logged
The Chicken Lady
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1509


Busy Bee thats always me


WWW
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 08:04:45 PM »
Welcome to our community. How exciting to have someone who can mix e/o's. I adore the smells you can create when you blend various oils together and always marvel at the different out come.
Kim big hug
Logged
Never say die.
www.essentiallysoaps.co.uk
JoJo
Hibernating
Hero+ Member
*
Posts: 7372


My new anti-poo helmet


WWW
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2008, 09:09:47 PM »
Hi Isabelle  Hi!

Welcome, and I hope you enjoy it here.  I can't blend EOs either so will find it very interesting!

Jo
Logged
She came, she saw, she croaped

http://croapqueen.blogspot.com

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown
Nessa
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 722
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2008, 09:19:00 PM »
Welcome welcome welcome hun!!


 big hug
Logged
Frenchlily
Newbie
*
Posts: 6


Perfume composer


WWW
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2008, 11:32:30 PM »
Waow!  big hug

Thank you for such a warm welcome everyone... I am thrilled to be part of this friendly community. I browsed already and all I can say is that everyone seems to be bringing something positive to this world!

I also often look for 'human guinea pigs' to do a test run of new perfumes before deciding to sell them or not so I am even more thrilled to have found you as I see that Swap and Testing are part of the forum... For the last launch of my 'strawberry ginger perfume called Red Passion', I put a 'free sample promotion' on the first page of my website against people joining my mailing list. What I did not realise is that there were some freebies forums fishing out there and I ended up with 2000 visitors in one day and a mailing list of 900 people!! Argh! Needless to say that I had to stop the offer within 24 hours but everyone who joined before got the free sample... I have learnt my lesson and will now stick to like-minded communities to do test runs...

Do not hesitate to pick my brain if you want to go deeper in perfume making... I'll be most happy to share my passion.

Looking forward to many chats!!
 
Logged
‘’My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.’’ Charles Baudelaire
ShaSha
Jedi
Hibernating
Hero+ Member
*
Posts: 3223


Apparently I'm blone
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2008, 08:48:22 AM »
Hello and welcome  big hug My daughter is also Izabelle (yes with a 'z'  Grin) , it is such a pretty name!

We are so excited to have a perfumer here  WooHoo!.

I meant to say that I had a similar experience as you re the freebies sites a couple of years ago. I had a yahoo group of interested people and testers which had and I'm sent an email to them to say I was offering free samples. Within a few hours I was swamped with requests for free samples via the website. When I tracked the visits through web stats I found they had all come from a freebie forum where one of the group had posted. I felt gutted because I thought there was an understanding amongst the group-I was a small one-person business hand making everything and I felt a little betrayed. Most of the emails were simply asking for 'free samples' so I'd email them back saying for them to look through the website and tll me exactly what they wanted samples of, and most of them didn't even bother!! They really wanted something for ABSOLUTELY nothing!  Shocked

Sharon xx
« Last Edit: April 15, 2008, 08:55:02 AM by SharonM » Logged
~~~ This is not the signature you are looking for ~~~
Helen
Founder
Hero+ Member
*****
Posts: 23004


Here's to 2012!!


WWW
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2008, 09:27:23 AM »
That is an awful (and pretty expensive) experience for the both of you.

Frenchily, please, please, please post a few more times and get to junior (50 posts) as there is a board that will open up to you on EO's where we have begun perfume discussions.  There have been a few issued raised there which you may find interesting.  Keep posting pleeeeeaaaasssssse  Grin
Logged
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Blog:  http://fresholi-bites.blogspot.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fresholi
Saffy
Member
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 235
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2008, 10:51:07 PM »
Bonjour et Bien venue Isabelle!  Your ventures sound very exciting and interesting indeed!  I'm becoming more interested in aromatherapy myself recently and have thought about doing a course.  I'll take a look at your website, so thanks for that!  You've found a great place here for sure!  I hope you have lot of fun here and you're sure to learn lots too as the lovely ladies here are definitely full of a wealth of knowledge!  A bientot! 

 
Logged
Love & Sparkles x
Nadine
Member
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 229



WWW
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2008, 03:09:59 PM »
Welcome Isabelle.
Logged
www.curlharmony.blogspot.com
Suzanne
senior
Hero+ Member
*****
Posts: 7643


scent-trail.blogspot.com


WWW
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2008, 05:26:28 PM »
Welcome Isabelle. 

I have just had a quick look at your website.  Everything looks fab.  Well done you.
Logged
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
                  Henry Ward Beecher
http://scent-trail.blogspot.com
Frenchlily
Newbie
*
Posts: 6


Perfume composer


WWW
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2008, 05:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Suzanne on April 22, 2008, 05:26:28 PM
Welcome Isabelle. 

I have just had a quick look at your website.  Everything looks fab.  Well done you.

Hi Suzanne

Thank you big hug - And yours looks great too. I will treat myself with one of your gorgeous necklaces sometimes this year! I just love this kind of traditional handcrafted jewels.. Well done!

Isabelle
Logged
‘’My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.’’ Charles Baudelaire
Pages: [1] 2 Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines
Fresholi design by Fresholi based on Amber by Bloc | XHTML | CSS