The Celtic Tree Month of Duir begins today. Duir meaning “door” is the Celtic name for Oak. The magick associated with the lunar month coincides with the upcoming celebration of Summer Solstice on June 20th. The Oak is the tree of the sun and is at…
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Lunar Month of Oak
June 10th, 2008 — , Summer Solstice, celtic lore, native plants, oak from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Sensing Organisms
June 10th, 2008 — , Books, california, inspiration, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
In the nineties, when I created illustrations 24/7, I contributed an image for an article in National Geographic on how plants communicate with each other. Recently I’ve come to learn about the inherent wisdom in California native plants, including the…
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June 3rd, 2008 — , Nature, botanical perfume, chaparral, essential oils, inspiration, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
The perfumes I create are made with actual plant material, sometimes tinctured or infused, and essences obtained from nature in the guise of essential oils. The natural or botanical perfumer has a vast palette to work with in creating their artwork, le…
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May 22nd, 2008 — , chaparral, inspiration, native plants, sage from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
I power walked up the steep street which leads to the Santa Monica Mountain trails early this morning. The birds were singing, bees a humming and as the landscape shifted from homes to plant life the scent of white sage filled my lungs.There are areas …
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April 24th, 2008 — , Aurora, Lyra, Vespertina, botanical perfume, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
The box with little sampler bottles arrived yesterday as I was formulating a new perfume. It was a super busy day. I poured Vespertina samples in the morning, pondered packaging with Martha while eating delicious croquettas, crossed hills and valleys f…
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April 21st, 2008 — , chaparral, inspiration, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
We celebrated the earth this weekend in the Santa Monica mountains among divine beings. On Sunday we met some friends up in Topanga, hopped on bikes and scooters and made our way to the Topanga Earth Day Celebration. Through the chaparral scented breez…
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April 14th, 2008 — , Nature, Rose, Theodore Payne Foundation, botanical perfume, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
“Nature is full of genius, full of divinity;so that not a snow flake escapes it’s fashioned hand.” ~ Henry David ThoreauTwo major events, dear to my heart,…
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March 23rd, 2008 — , Nature, Spring Equinox, chaparral, native plants, spring from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Happy Easter! The origins of the word Easter are found in the ancient Saxon Lunar Goddess known as Eostre and Norse Goddess Ostara. In both these traditions, as well as those of the Greeks and Egyptians we find the symbolic use of eggs and bunnies. Th…
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March 1st, 2008 — , Beltane, Californica, Sovereignty, Theodore Payne Foundation, botanical perfume, california, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Today was the final class in the California Native Plant Design series at the Theodore Payne Foundation. I now have a complete landscape design using native plants for the front portion of our lot. I chose plants from the Woodland and Chaparral communi…
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February 22nd, 2008 — Aritst, Art, inspiration, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
On the evening devoted to LOVE Greg and I had the pleasure to meet the renown T’angka painter Romio Shrestha. His paintings are found world wide, both in museum and private collections.When Romio was a wee lad of five years two Buddhist monks came to…
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February 12th, 2008 — Theodore Payne Foundation, essential oils, leaves, native plants, oak from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Let us praise “Leaves” today, for they are a crucial component of our survival on Spaceship Planet Earth. Daily we exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with these lateral outgrowths which come in all shapes and colors.Leaves are one of the categories…
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January 31st, 2008 — Alchemy, botanical perfume, event, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.” - William ShakespeareAlchemy is often associated with the art of botanical perfume due the transformation of physical matter through the process of distillat…
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December 13th, 2007 — Theodore Payne Foundation, california, garden, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
I’ve finally gotten into the Native Plant Design class at the Theodore Payne Foundation. YAY! This class fills up before it even gets posted on their website, I’ve been on the wait list for quite sometime. Can’t wait. The class begins Saturday, Februar…
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October 22nd, 2007 — air, chaparral, elementals, fire, fragrance families, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Friday in the late afternoon I began an intensive weekend course on Natural/Botanical Perfumery, really working the olfactory muscles in a big way. I’d arrive home after a very full day, exhausted on multiple levels.Saturday night, or was it the wee ho…
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October 10th, 2007 — Californica, Perfumes, Principlas of Design, Rosa, Sierra, Theodore Payne Foundation, Vera, garden, native plants from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
Last Friday was the first day of the Native Pant Sale at the Theodore Payne Foundation. We are re-doing our landscape to incorporate as many indigenous plants as possible. Early last Friday my mom and I trekked out to Sun Valley to purchase natives. I …
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August 26th, 2007 — Nature, Travel, Vancouver, native plants, sensorium from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume
In the northern realms of America the sense we tend to rely on the most is our sense of sight. Of all the senses in our collective cultural sensorium “vision” is used to assess and determine situations. Looking back in history it was the modern printin…
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