.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } bees love anise hyssop, originally uploaded by Pocket Farmer. About a week i…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } La casa Gelato, originally uploaded by ?????. Aromatic landmark of …

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Girl in violet dress, originally uploaded by Chrissie White.Lavender and violet h…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Herbaceous & Bold Lavender, originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel. My inter…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lavender Haze (Soft Focus), originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel.Among my los…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } lavender fairy wands-, originally uploaded by oldflowers4me. To say hello an…

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Instead, I’ve done the following today:
1.  cook and pickle three pounds of beets
2.  bake a plum crumb cake
3.  fry up a batch of black beans
4.  groom Daisy with the furminator brush for a half hour (we yielded two cats’ worth of hair)
5.  prep a sack of peppers for pickling
6.  cook a batch of Spanish rice
7.  [...]

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It is Lavender season, many festivals in honor of this universally healing herb take place at this time of year. The word lavender comes from the Latin “Lavare” meaning to wash. The herb has a very rich presence in literature and is used widely in medi…

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Vera, our perfume celebrating Lavender and Ojai, has been reviewed on the Perfume Critic. Here is a link. The author of the perfume review is Sands Murray-Wassink a contemporary fine artist and perfume collector living and working in Amsterdam, The Net…

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Our blog had it’s first birthday yesterday and the website turned one this morning. What an adventure this has been. Exactly one year ago today I was the keynote speaker at the Fourth Annual Ojai Lavender Festival. This years festival is scheduled for …

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I had to decant sample vials of Rosemary today and something about its greenish brown gummy character (the absolute is like a olive green hunk of herbaceous fudge) made me wonder how it would behave with chocolate, to sort of play up the fudgy weirdness, and would a particularly dusty and greenish-smell patchouli be an [...]

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I first experimented with an EDC, eau de Cologne, in November of 2005. I built the fragrance utilizing a tincture of bay leaves and a synergy combining bay laurel essential oil with spices and citrus. It was the first time I had ever added water to a c…

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Mis-information is currently being circulated by the big media conglomerates in regards to Lavender and the benefits of Essential Oils. It makes me think the the large pharmaceutical cartels, who own many media companies, have launched this attack.Fort…

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Here is how to make your very own Belle en Rykiel. Take Rykiel’s Woman Not For Men (or, lacking that, Barbara Bui, which is more or less the same thing), add a generous splash of any lavender soliflore, and you are all set.

Seriously though, the premise of Belle en Rykiel was very appealing. “Feminine, but with a nod to the masculine (…) composed of equal parts of darkness and light” (osMoz)

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The tradition of scented beads, also termed prayer beads or rosary, goes back into ancient times to the Hindu Sages. In fact there are sandstone sculptures dated 185BC, from the Sunga and Kushan periods depicting sages holding prayer beads.SCENTED BEAD…

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Might certain scents help in alleviating stress? When TMH of For the Love of Perfume and I were discussing this month’s Perfume for the Occasion feature, we thought it would certainly be an interesting question to explore. Influenced by the fact that October was a rather hectic and stressful month for both of us, we felt that others too, might wish to read a few suggestions on which fragrances

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } fougère naissante, originally uploaded by jean.avenas. Edible Fougere Recipe…

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“For mine is an old belief … there is a soul in every leaf.” ~ M.M. BallouIn late 2005 we were just about to purchase the empty lot next to our l…

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Please check out my posting on Now Smell This today on making floral waters for personal use, (most particularly about Lavender Water). I will be posting from time to time on Now Smell This about scented body care products, home fragrances, and some …

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Recently I received a selection of absolutes from two sources, Anya’s Garden, and Nature’s Gift. It was almost overwhelming because each one is so intensely dimensional and requires time for development and reflection on the experience. From Anya’s G…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jalapeno Chocolate, originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel. On the hottest day …

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The new niche line I have promised you is none other than Vero Profumo, the spiritual child of Vero Kern, a Switzerland based aromatologist and Paris trained perfumer under the mentoring of none other than famous legend Guy Robert.I was immensely flatt…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } New Tree Chocolate, originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel. I spotted these mini…

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Recent attention to Sigmar Polke’s use of lavender oil in his latest work reminded me of the significantly aromatic nature of oil painting. I have always found the smell of linseed oil, aka flax seed oil to be delicious, and since it all comes from t…

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