House of Mammoth

How to clean your perfumery tools. Step 1: Wipe out any residual material. Step 2: Wipe again with solvent to remove oils and resins clingi…

One of you lovely folks asked for a tutorial on measuring powders for perfume, so here you go! Bonus tip: making a scoop out of a disposable…

ARTISAN PERFUMERS: These inserts are painfully difficult to remove. I’ve used a variety of tools but none has been as effective as this litt…

Struggling to work with thick resins, absolutes, cashmeran, exaltolide, etc? The key is gentle heat, be kind to your materials. I’ve foun…

This weekend I was honored to be a part of the kickoff panel for UPAT, the Union for Perfumery and Allied Trades, on IG @perfumersunion . T…

Now that doing things “quietly” has been co-opted by Al slopbots, l’ve had to start making perfume a bit differently. *sound on #human #pe…

I’m all for small businesses and I love artists who create from the heart. The very fact that we aren’t slick mass market brands is what mak…

WE ARE HERE! @fumedexpo

ARTISAN PERFUMERS: You’re wearing gloves when you work on perfumes, right? Here’s a tried and true technique to easily remove nitrile glo…

I can forgive Luca Turin for thinking the concept behind House of Mammoth is unnecessary, because based on what’s happened in perfume in the…

I want to know what HoM scents you’re most interested in smelling. And if you are a House Of Mammoth fan, drop your recommendations in the…

Despite what you might think, I’m not down on brands that use Al. I just think we can do a lot better than this. In particular, independent …

Luca Turin had some great things to say about House of Mammoth perfumes. But he also slammed indie brands for focusing on “concept.” Read h…

The perfume industry has a trust problem on every level.

This video is about learning to exist in a world where we just don’t know or understand everything. I want to choose grace, empathy, and c…

Adopt a perfume! One of the biggest reasons why artisan and independent perfume is so special is that it’s real. If you’re coming to @fu…

Our concept is simple: in a post-human world, House of Mammoth wants to pull people back into the absurd and glorious mess of human reality.…

Harvesting and processing my aronia berries into juice!

Part 1: advice for someone with a developing interest in perfumery! Overwhelmingly the question I have been asked the most is how did you …

As a perfumer, I go through a lot of fragrant materials when developing a new fragrance. It takes months and many trials (and some tribulati…

In A Grief Observed, CS Lewis worried that in the years following the loss of his wife Joy, his memories and printed photographs of his wife…

What is happening right now with that pitiful man attacking @hoshi_gato, the other one attacking women influencers, the other pitiful man go…

It’s easy to look at the state of the world and despair, to feel like giving up, to feel like the only sane one in a crazy timeline. The a…

Chypre Palatin by Bertrand Duchaufour for Parfums MDCI was the first perfume that really wowed me. I had grown very sick of the perfumes tha…