A Natural Perfumers Journal

Funny what kids teach us. I have a 6 year old son who is learning how to draw. He is very intent on learning and sometimes he gets frustrated because he can't draw what he wants, how he wants. I remember being advised by a very good art teacher to " draw what I see and not what I think I see ". I relayed that message to my son and set him up with some exercises to help him practice. He knows he has to make mistakes so that he can learn . So, he was drawing Spiderman and he was doing a very good job as he had beside him a print-out of Spiderman that he could look at. "Draw what you see", I kept thinking it and then later on I took that idea into my studio. Yesterday evening I was at the rough end of a learning curve and I was feeling frustrated. I needed to look at the art of natural perfumery differently if I was going to move up to the next level. So "Make what I smell, not what I think I smell?" how might that work? I suppose I could take a perfume,