Weekend Work

It was a busy week! I spent a lot of time getting those perfumes up to speed, the Woodbine (honeysuckle) perfume and the Sunflower (faux) perfume, both of which are now just biding their time for a few weeks to determine how they will smell after some aging. The more challenging of the two, the Sunflower, took ages and almost two dozen modifications to get right, and still, with all of that work, time will be the determining factor. 

I also began work on the storage chest, where all of the finished work is kept before going off to the four corners after being sold. The top two drawers of the storage chest are filled with weird stuff. Small-small experiments of incense, strange tiny packaging ideas, raggedy jute bags, frazzled hemp twine, wrinkled bundles of gold and silver ghost money, hollyhock seed pods in torn cellophane bags labeled 'double' and 'single,' dried up pens and markers, half-empty bottles of former perfume incarnations. Beautiful junque. The work on these drawers continues today.

There are two benches in the studio, one for creating perfumes and one for creating incense. The perfume bench has all of the requisite tools of the trade, beakers, droppers, scales, mini-organs, scent strips, bottles of alcohol, tiny spoons and scrapers, and bottles and bottles in varying shapes and volumes for pouring the finished work into. The incense bench has all the electronics, the grinder, ultrasonic and magnetic stirrer, empty bottles and blank labels, and lots of space to throw the aromatic dust around. That bench is the one I will be working on this weekend. The bones of Ressurection of Medusa are down, complex yet straightforward in scent. I was tinkering with adding mastic because it would have been something the gods and monsters of the time were familiar with. Still, I abandoned the idea because one of the magical attributes of mastic is increased sexual desire. If you know the Medusa story, you know that this is way out of line and even insulting if it were used. The Edfu and Ebers Kyphis are on hold until I receive the latest order of  'must-haves' in the mail to begin. I'm wondering how having two pots of different Kyphi going at once will be. What if I become confused halfway through and finish off the Edfu with Ebers materials, and the Ebers with Edfu materials? Would they then be Ebefu and Eders? 

I'm going to work now ~ ha!