Journal

Each summer, we offer a (very) limited number of natural perfumery workshops.  In these sessions, I try to impress upon participants that perfumes should do more than smell beau...

Lavandula Angustifolia (english) and Lavandula X-Intermedia (french) produce buds/shoots for the coming year, at the base of the current years growth.  Look in the nodes of the ...

Lavender & Black Botanical Perfumes began 10 years ago – with a desire to create fragrances connected to landscapes – shunning synthetics for real botanical ingredients.  Th...

Culinary Lavender Recipes These are a few of our favourite ways to enjoy culinary lavender. Lavender Lemonade Ingredients 4 cups  filtered water 1 cup sugar (or honey) 2 tables...

For almost the entire history of human evolution, we lived as part of nature.  Wild plants were sources of nutrition, healing, perfume and beauty.  And even after cultivation be...