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Mother’s Day Spring Extravaganza

I just came back from my fantastic spring visit to Israel with a new stock of pendants - still warm from the designer's atelier! All are pure sterling silver and are handcrafted and sweatshop free. Now offered at a special 25% off discount - original price is $150, and now offered to you at a special discount until Mother's Day (May 14th, 2006) – for only $112!!!

This is a really special gift for Mother's Day - Ayala Moriel's unique perfumed pendants, filled with perfume and adorned with the lovely fairy-and-a-drop logo embossed on the lid - the drop being an outrageously luminous and colourful turquoise-shade opal stone. The pendant holds about 2.5ml of crème parfum of your choice. Email me to receive a free fragrance consultation to help you choose a perfume for your own mother or significant woman in your life, or to treat yourself to this unique piece of fragrant jewellery.

Also, our sales from last month continues, with lots of larger size bottles that are being discontinued as we are gradually transitioning to our "new look". Our new bottles and packaging as well as our brand-new website will be officially launched June 2006. Large bottles of 2 oz (60ml) for only $99 (original price $135), 1 oz (30ml) spray bottles for only $75 (original price $85). And don't forget - we still have a few testers left, for a steal of $25 per bottle - these are refillable purse sprays of 1/4 oz (7.5ml) and are full of yummy juice...

* Please inquire about the availability of your favourite fragrance. Until our new website is launched we will be still processing all orders manually and via the email or phone.

More on our liquidation shelf are the last 5 of our sterling silver compacts with an opal stone (just the locket without the pendant), freshly filled with gorgeous and creamy solid perfumes of White Potion (2 available), Lavandouli, Megumi and Cabaret (the latter is adorned
with an amethyst). These are offered at half of the original price, for only $75.

Updates to Quinta Essentia's Website

The perfumes page on my old website, Quinta Essentia, has been just updated. I have decided to make those updates despite the fact that this website will be soon replaced with the new one for Ayala Moriel Parfums (ayalamoriel.com). I did a major clean-up, taking off-line the discontinued scents, and adding some of the newer perfumes that haven't made it to the website before... Now all the perfume information and notes are at your fingertips!

I am planning to launch the new website for Ayala Moriel Parfums (ayalamoriel.com) later this spring, with new perfumes and plenty of exciting new features, including, of course, a shopping cart - but lots of other things that I prefer to keep a surprise... Including the new packaging! Until than, please email me to order or to inquire about prices, shipping etc. I will be happy to answer all of your questions as well as give you a free Fragrance Consultation!

Chocolate Dilemma

Some perfumes start with an abstract concept. Other perfumes are inspired by a building block - a note of distinct character the inspires the perfumer to explore possibilities and express the magnificent beauty of simplicity. So what happens when an unusually stunning building block is discovered in the middle of developing an abstract perfume?

I just received a new cocoa absolute which smells truly of chocolate. Sweetness and all. It’s all I have been looking forward to for reworking my chocolate perfume, Guilt, and perfecting it. Guilt is a leathery chocolate concoction, juxtaposing smoky notes, rich florals and deep brown chocolate and amber with a hint of spice. Rose, orange blossom, frangipani and mimosa create an interesting ethereal contrast to the hedonistic chocolate… Guilt has always been a dark, leathery scent, the concept being using the most guilt-inducing substances such as cigarette smoke and chocolate addiction as the theme for an unusual gourmand.
Now with the new sweet chocolate I am feeling tempted to re-work it into an altogether different concept - a milk chocolate, almost caramel-like, with sweet chocolate and vanilla, maybe also some tonka bean and amber. No flowers. No leather. No spices. Just chocolate.
Of course there is the possibility of starting a new scent, but I have promised myself to not over-expand my collection (one chocolate perfume should be enough).

Which of the two would make you feel most shamelessly guilty?

L'ÉCUME DES JOURS

FORMULA

50 Green Curduroy Extract
30 Pineapple Toothpaste Absolute
50 Seaweed Absolute
1 Chloe and Colin’s First Kiss
40 Yellow of a handkerchief
500 Lung Water Lilly Absolute
50 Gunpowder Roses
60 Glimpses of light reflected on a shiny floor, harvested by a mouse
700 Teardrops

Mix all the ingredients in the exact order described above using a Pianola.
It is crucial that you keep the harmony and in the New Orleans’ Jazz spirit, to keep all the ingredients in the right proportions.

The end will be tragic: the concoction will be used to the last drop. It is guaranteed that the person that wears it will die in the end. That is the perfect beauty of living a mortal life.

Welcoming Spring with a Grin

"After three years in this northern city
I experienced a deficit in sunlight
 The chlorophyl in my green eyes has diminished
Making room for more whitenesss
 And my pupils are growing, more eager to find the truth

After three years in this rain soaked town
 My lungs, like dead logs in the rainforest
 Are underlined with moss and undergrowth
 I’d rather it be a waterlily, and die
 A heroic death
 Nurtured by a true love rather than
 Sacrifice my voice to the wind of the snowdrops"
(March 1st, 2003)

I was born in the spring, and spring has always been my favourite season. In my home country, spring is gently warm, and blessed with millions of fragrant flowers in all shades of colours. I have missed spring ever since I have moved to the rainy West Coast city of Vancouver. The frequent rain washes off, along with dirt and pollution, the fragrance of anything that has the potential of being fragrant in other places. Even out in the nature, the bloom is not abundant in the spring as it is in desert lands... If there are any flowers they will appear later in the summer and will have little colour and scent that pales in comparison to the desert-flowers show-off parade of colours and scents. One needs to climb all the way up to the peaks of the mountains to observe the Alpine meadows... And so after a while I have learned to accept that there are different types of spring. The spring here is crisp and brisk, even (or more so) on sunny days. And although the cherry blossoms are now in full bloom, I still experience the spring here as a green spring, rather than pink or yellow as the cherry blossoms or daffodil flowers. And so, about three years ago, I have decided to create a scent dedicated to a cool, green spring - reminiscent of the first shoots of grass awakening and sprouting out of the earth and the mossy undergrowth of the forest, decorated only by hints of flowers that conform to this green concept and do not overload the scene with indolic exhibitionism.

As the spring approaches, it is time to announce some of my new fragrances for the spring. The new version of Grin is green as the one from the previous two years. This time it is less herbal, more floral yet much greener than ever. Grin opens with the sappy, crisp greenness of galbanum, leading to a cool-cucumber, green violet leaf note, spicy-green fresh-cut freesia notes of boronia from Tasmania , softened by jasmine and rose to create a full bodied floral bouquet. Underlined by oakmoss, green vetiver note and woody-musty oud oil that brings to mind a mossy undergrowth of the soil awakening at springtime.
Grin is available as pure parfum, in both alcohol and jojoba oil base.
This new Spring limited edition of Grin will be officially released on March 21st. Samples can be pre-ordered prior to that via email - Ayala@Quinta-Essentia.ca.
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