Monthly Archives: May 2021

Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 4 (The Art of Mixing, Scents for the Sexes and the Truth about Bay Rum!)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on May 24, 2021

We’re at Part 4 in this series –thanks for still reading!! I’m squeezing three different bits of this topic into today’s post. Each one could be a post and covered in so much more detail, but they sort of go … Continue reading →

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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 3 (Making Sense of Making Scents)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on May 10, 2021

At the end of Part 2 in this series, we left our Regency heroine in her family’s still-room surrounded by the materials she has gathered for making a new supply of perfume. What has she harvested? Not apple blossoms, for … Continue reading →

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