The NOTEbook

When the weather turns chilly and the skies look dreary, it’s easy to daydream about an escape. It may be tempting to want to run off to a new place, but if your bank account or schedule doesn’t allow for a spur-of-the-moment trip, let your senses be your guide. Scent vacations are a wonderful way to indulge your wanderlust without ever having to leave home. And, it’s even more fun when you can invite some friends or family along! At Noteology, we host fragrance parties in our studio to help those looking for a new adventure to get away without...

When you’re expecting a new arrival, your body goes through a wonderful series of changes. Every day is a new journey and a new adventure, and for some expectant mothers, a whole new world of scent! Many pregnant women experience altered or heightened senses of smell, which can change your perception of the notes you normally gravitate toward. It’s actually amazing how it happens! When you become pregnant, the blood flow throughout your body increases by up to 50%, causing messages normally transmitted through your blood to arrive faster and in larger quantities to the brain. Plus, areas of your...

Perfumes are all about timing and chemistry; the ebb and flow of how they lay on your skin and evaporate into the air as time goes on. In most fragrances, you’ll find that your signature scent offers three levels that you can sense as you smell it on your skin. With each passing hour, notes will rise to the surface and say hello! A well-crafted, nonlinear, fragrance should ebb and flow on your skin. It should smell differently at different times but still remain cohesive. Perfumery mimics that of a song, using “notes” to represent each layer of the perfume...

As a member of the mint family, patchouli brings a lovely earthy quality to so many fragrances. It comes in the form of a low, bushy shrub that grows natively in tropical regions throughout Southeast Asia. To distill its essential oil, the leaves are dried and then steamed to extract and distill a main chemical component - patchoulol - which often serves as a base in many perfumes. Patchouli itself has an incredibly interesting history. When textiles from India were shipped out across the sea in centuries past, dried patchouli leaves would be tucked in with the fabric to keep...

Smudging, also known as saging, is a ritual to cleanse your mind, your space, and the energy around you. Here’s a quick How to Smudge guide where we will fill you in on what it is and how you do it. From Danielle, our Founder. “I love Sundays. One of the things I love to do on this day is to smudge. It’s a dedicated day off or at least a few hours of time dedicated to selfcare. While it doesn’t come inherently easy to me to sit back and relax, with the intentions of smudging, I make a point to...