The Scentual Life

With this message we celebrate this year's Beltane, situated midway between the Vernal Equinox and Midsummer. Historically & ritualistically celebrated in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, Beltane served to mark the beginning of summer and to protect the cattle, crops and people, and to encourage growth. As Beltane favours fire and ash for its protective powers, Lavender Absolute, with its forest-driven scent, burns bright with verdant growth and potentiality. Let us celebrate the eve of this new celestial chapter with the Absolute, the true scent of lavender in perfumery, and evoker of the purple, fragrant sprawl that adorns the French mountainsides. With this message...

Saffron—or crocus sativus—is not only the most expensive spice in the world, but an olfactory material (derived from the dried stigma of the autumn bloom) that has been used for over 4000 years in sacred applications, to induce visions, and to stimulate desire. The scent of the dried saffron has a fatty-herbaceous undertone that follows a truly unique, hotly sweet and spicy odor.