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For the first time ever, the Haus is pleased to announce a limited time release of our most popular General Catalog scents in whipped soap form. This has long been one of our most requested items and we are excited to offer them to you as a special treat!Whipped Soaps will be available in the following scents:Aether (Unscented)The essence of our whipped soap!  Free from added dyes and fragrances.Cozy SweaterPale skin musk, faded perfume, Egyptian amber, softly burning nag champa incense and a fine aged vanilla. Our best selling scent of all time.Haus AmberRich and sultry amber, our own hand...

Today, the perfume market in Asia is dominated by high end fragrance houses from the US and Europe, where expensive perfumes are considered a status symbol. But in the past, many classic fragrances were developed and worn in the East.During the Cultural Revolution in China, Maoist doctrine declared wearing perfume to be decadent and it was actually illegal at one point. At a result, the traditional Chinese perfume industry was pretty much ended after 1967.Prior to this, however, there was a strong tradition of fragrance in daily life in China. Central to Chinese fragrance was the Taoist belief that the...

One of the most fun ways to create a personal scent is fragrance layering! You can be your own perfumer and create a scent that is totally unique to you. Just like creating a stand alone perfume, building a layered scent on your skin can be best achieved by adhering to a few good tricks and principles! To help you get the best out of our upcoming Layering Accord collection, as well as all your other layering ingredients, we've written up a handy guide of tips and tricks to get you started!One of our favorite ways to create a layered...

The use of perfume and incense in the West goes back as far as 5000BC when the first mentions of burning incense as an offering were made in Egyptian tombs. The first perfumers were priests who compounded sacred offerings from aromatic resins. These blends were used to sweeten the smell of sacrificial offerings and to please the gods. The Egyptians even had a god of perfume named Nefertem.Blends created by Egyptian priests were potent enough that samples found in tombs during modern excavation have retained their original sweet fragrances. Most powerful Egyptians such as priests and Pharoahs were buried with...

There are two main schools of thought when it comes to "resetting one's nose" while sampling perfumes.  Just like taste buds, your nose can become de-sensitized after sniffing different blends in a process similar to anosmia, or nose blindness.  After too long, scent receptors lose their sensitivity to aroma compounds.  Many high end perfume retailers keep bowls of coffee beans on their counters for customers to sniff in between sampling different blends.  Coffee beans are also used by wine tasters along with bread and water for these same purposes. The other common method for keeping one's scent palate clear is...