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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 5 (How to Bottle the Scent of Success)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on June 14, 2021

We’ve already covered so much in the first four parts of this series since April (see links below), but there’s one more aspect of this topic I just can’t leave out: how to store the scents that were either purchased … Continue reading →

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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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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Beyond Floris, Part 2 (Still-room Magic)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on April 26, 2021

The heroine in my current work-in-progress, an earl’s daughter, is an athletic, active, outdoors-y sort of young woman but she does have one bit of domestic expertise. After her bookish sister has lectured on the medicinal properties of some spring … Continue reading →

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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Beyond Floris (Part 1)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on April 12, 2021

(This rabbit hole sprouted a few tunnels and wound up as a multi-part series! I hope this topic interests you as much as it did me.) We’ll start with Floris first, before we explore everything else. If you don’t already … Continue reading →

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Happy May Day (and more)!

by Gail Eastwood Posted on May 1, 2020

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing, cuccu; Groweth sed and bloweth med, And springth the wode anu; Sing, cuccu! (words from a 13th century song) Happy May 1st 2020! I’ve been steeped in May Day customs recently as my next … Continue reading →

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