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Bois de Balincourt

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:54:28 +0000

I do not wear a lot of perfume these days, but this one felt immediately own. Very sensual, delicate and natural with no synthetic notes. I found it in Los Angleles two years ago and have been wearing it ever since. Bois de Balincourt is named after a stately family home and inspired by the surrounding […]

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Awaji

admin — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 05:56:07 +0000

If you kind of like the idea of burning incenses but find most incense scents too exotic and strong, you might want to give these a try. Made on the Japanese island of Awaji using ancestral traditions and techniques, the Awaji incense by Astier de Villatte is so skillfully created and subtly perfumed, it might […]

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Christmas Sheets

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 06:58:01 +0000

I make the beds before noon on the 24th that, towards the afternoon, is the main holiday in Finland. The sheets are waiting in the closet. Everyone in the house gets lovingly laundered and ironed bedlinen with a little gift under the pillow. Though this may sound like a small detail, it is actually one […]

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Citger

admin — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:56:51 +0000

In our welcome box at Coqui Coqui, I found the best mosquito repellent ever. After trying to make my own all natural mosquito repellent last summer, I spent one afternoon smelling like vodka, took a shower, and went back to the store bought thing. Citger mosquito repellent by Coqui Coqui is formulated of geranium and […]

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Odor

admin — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:00:05 +0000

“Odor, oftener than any other sense impression, delivers a memory to consciousness little impaired by lapse of time, stripped of irrelevancies of the moment or of the intervening years, apparently alive and all but convincing. Not vision, not hearing, touch, nor even taste – so nearly akin to smell – none other, only the nose […]

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Beauty Plant: Rose

admin — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 06:59:52 +0000

Rose is a perennial shrub native primarily to the Northern Hemisphere, Asia in particular. There are over a hundred species of roses, and the plant can be an erect, climbing, or trailing shrub with relatively large flowers and stems covered in prickles. The fruit of the plant is called rose hip. Full of vitamin C […]

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No Sweat

admin — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 06:55:30 +0000

I have been going back and forth with deodorants ranging from conventional antiperspirants to several different natural cosmetic brands. Some natural deodorants did not work in extreme situations. The one from Madara performed really well until it didn’t. Added to that, my underarm skin started to reject it. So why look for a substitute for […]

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Beauty Plant: Lavender

admin — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 04:54:20 +0000

Lavender is a fragrant shrub native to southern Europe. Abundant lavender bushes with purple fragrant flowers are especially common around the Mediterranean. In aromatherapy, lavender is used for its calming and relaxing benefits as the scent relieves anxiety and stress. The Romans added lavender to their bath water for which the plant is also named. […]

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In the air

admin — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:56:20 +0000

Where I grew up, it smelled like fresh air. That is what I most vividly remember from my home. I remember my mother opening windows and balcony doors for fresh air. I think she must have also taken all the rugs out often, and she definitely dried laundry outdoors whenever possible. Besides keeping the air […]

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Feel it

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:56:34 +0000

“Things that make one’s heart beat faster… To sleep in a room where some fine incense has been burnt. To wash one’s hair, to make one’s toilet, and put on scented robes. Even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.” From The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon . . […]

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