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Bye bye rain, bye bye Zurich, bye bye…. I am on my way to LA. See you soon again, here or there.

Fragrant greetings

(rain drops on water, March 2008, Zurich)

Ah….I wished I had a Wisteria accord at hand!Today’s post on Heather’s poem and perfume installation is inspiring and educative and motivating. Hmm… Wisteria! I thank Ineke Rühland for a great exposé.
I invite you all to continue reading Heather’s respectively her perfumers’ contributions here on Memory and Desire.

With some sunny spots, at least yesterday, when getting the samples ready of all the stuff that I will show this Saturday in LA.

I prepared among others: Rose absolute from Bulgaria, rose steam distilled oil, Bourbon geranium oil, damascenone, Irone alpha, Labdanum resinoid, cistus oil and extract, cedarwood, petitgrain, coriander, etc. When mixing the rose oil I realized how wonderful (and expensive) this stuff is. What I did: Just sprayed it as is on my skin, layered with Irone-alpha and Ambroxide.

The best therapy to fight winter return depression….can’t wait to get to LA, finally!
Trees these days in Zurich….

Easter this year is early and will turn out to be one of these Grey Easter…..

Proof: Today’s outlook over Zurich at the end of a short 1 hour walk in the wet woods.

The sky over Zurich today, with a Japanese cherry tree in bloom

But then: Just change the angle, and the Iso numbers and adjust the lightening when taking a picture of the sky and the cherry blossoms,  and there we are… in midst of spring and Easter joy. It is the same sky, just looked at it differently.
Cherry bloom under Zurich’s sky today.
Fragrant greetings to you!

Up and running again after a few of serious technical troubles. You know what: The devil always shits at the same place. Be it…..

My host told me that my blog was a victim of a sever spam attack which forced them to take the first the server down and then turn my database off. I have my doubts, as I found not one spam after a painful re-installation of things. But I want to be on the save side, use holy water and onions against devils and alike, and ask for proof of your belonging to the human race before you can send off your comment.
Thus, I had to activate a more sever spam control that asks you to do some math. Take it as a funny exercise please.

Trust me: The last two days were heavy. But…. the TV was here, and we did some great shootings. I will see that I can make it available to you as soon as it is aired (mid April)

Until then, greetings from behind the camera.
Fragrant holidays to you all!

The first 30 or so envelops  (Happy Rabbit thing of yesterday) are ready and will leave Switzerland’s shores today. I figured, I will first let the one go that leave for a long journey like to the continent were there are too many rabbits or to Malaysia where I have never been. I am still somewhat baffled by the speed of how fast my website was searched for the rabbit. …is there a rabbit search engine somewhere?

Bottomline: It was great fun to see the forms flying in by mail yesterday, but I missed the stop button by some 10 samples as I got a phone call.
And after this phone call from SF I am still shaky and wobbly and have wet hands. SF DRS stands for the Swiss National Television, German edition. We are talking about a feature story before the prime news at 7.30 pm. Thus, Andy is in front of the camera again this Thursday. I think this is going to be a funny afternoon.

Wow….that was fast. You folks really looked out for this little happy rabbit… all 50 samples are now gone already. Thank you very to all those of you who searched successfully. And sorry for the others who missed it.
There will come another happy rabbit day…promised!

Fragrant greetings to you all.

We are hopping towards Easter these days.

Now, I know there is a Happy Rabbit hiding somewhere on the Tauer perfumes website (http://www.tauerperfumes.com).
Those of you who find the Happy Rabbit can click on it and will get a free sample of the Incense rosé after filling out a form. I just ask for the complete address where to ship the fragrance to. Thus, hurry up, and hop to the website www.tauerperfumes.com and look for the Happy Rabbit that looks roughly like this:

Picture: Happy Rabbit brings you a free sample if you find it.
I will send 50 samples. Once gone, the Happy Rabbit will hope away and the form will disappear from the website.
I will ship the samples to any place in the world using Swiss priority mail (US: 5-10 days).
I will not forward, nor sell your address or e-mail to any third party.

Fragrant greetings.

Sitting over green labels again…. thus, if the green sticky things mean something to you: Maybe you want to check in here again. Tomorrow. Until then, fragrant greetings from behind green things with text on it like “No tarifaire du SH et origine (4)”.

sodeli. I was asked (for today’s photo session) to also think about a little still life, a little arrangement of one of my scents.

Missing Jasmine flowers, no cowboy at hand, the desert far away, and the garden soaking wet: I figured I go for the Incense rosé……

Thus, here is my simple still life of Incense rosé. Featuring incense, rose and wood. Well.

Incense rosé…. arranged with wood and rose.