Perfumes from the edge...Useful Links and acknowledgements
Perfumery, perfume atomisers and supplies
If you make perfumes yourself and are looking for supplies you'll find some useful links here.
I've found it quite hard to source perfume bottles, particluarly perfume atomisers with screw tops in the UK so I'm willing to sell my supplies in small quantities. I've provided a pdf with pictures and current pricing: if you are interested in buying, or there is something you are looking for that isn't on that list, please email me and I'll do my best to help.
Whether you are looking for ingredients, bottles, regulatory information or almost anything else, the search facilities on the Perfumer's Search Page are sure to be useful.
You can also find me on Basenotes, the perfumery discussion forum:
It's perhaps a tenuous connection but wine and perfume have, alcohol, complexity and the need for a good nose in common. So I'm including links here to a couple of my favourite specialist wine suppliers actually both run by the same wine expert, David Chapman:
Amis du Vin imports fine French wine particularly from the Loire
While at Champagne Charlie they sell some of the very best Champagne - including some really excellent small houses you won't find in your high street wine merchant.
I wanted to include here some links to some of my suppliers and colleagues in the industry and elsewhere from whom I've gained learning, experience, support and help beyond simply buying things.
First I should mention The Cotswold Perfumery where the perfumer John Stephen has been a great friend and mentor.
Adam Michael, who owns Hermitageoils has been hugely supportive as well as supplying me with some
of the most unusual and interesting ingredients a perfumer could wish for. As with many suppliers of essential oils Adam's main business
is the aromatherapy market but unlike many he takes care to note the perfumery uses of materials too. The quality is top-notch and a lot of materials you just don't see anywhere else.
For those committed to 'natural perfumery' (by which I mean the forswearing of the use of any man-made materials in perfumes) you could do no better than to look at Essentially Me where the perfumer Alec Lawless sells his fascinating creations as well as a range of materials for those who wish to make their own.
Technical Links and acknowledgements
Hosting is provided by Netweaver who have provided first class support and I'm very happy to recommend.
The expanding of images is handled using the Lightbox solution from LOKESH DHAKAR.
I've used ideas from Stu Nicholls' CSS Play site, which I heartily recommend, including the design of both the main and product menus.
I added gradient images made with
from Dynamic Drive.
The footer solution I've used is based on the CSS Sticky Footer solution from aXemedia.
Speaking of footers, you'll have noticed the validation logos in the footer on every page of the website: I've found the validation services from W3C to be a great help in ensuring that the site meets xhtml standards and the code behaves as expected. If you are developing a site I recommend using these compliance tools: despite throwing up a lot of errors in what appears to be a perfectly functional web-page they will save you time and effort in the long run.
The storage and file-sharing tool Dropbox
is handy for providing a secure storage place for website back-ups and perfume formulae that I can access from multiple machines or directly over the net.
(and you can get 2Gb of storage free as well).
Throughout the development of the site I have had help, advice and testing from several sources. Special thanks is however due to Duncan Tincello for much technical support and help.
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