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Listening to Smoke - A New Online Course Dedicated to Incense Appreciation

Listening to Smoke - A New Online Course Dedicated to Incense Appreciation
Burning incense on its own is an art form. Knowing when, how and what to burn in the precise quantities, and which technique is most suitable for a certain raw material is a pre-requisite for any incense-maker's traning, as well as to fragrance aficionado and incense lovers. This will help you understand the pyrotechnic aspects, and enable you to know which material is appropriate for which incense burning (and making) techniques.  
Last but not least, in this course we will learn how to burn, explore and appreciate  individual incense raw materials from the natural world, including fragrant woods, resins, spices, flowers, seeds, fruits and peels of fragrant botanicals and animal ingredients used for incense and rituals from time immemorial. 

In this fun online course, we'll learn about:
1) Types of incense 
2) How to explore and observe the raw materials
3) How to burn incense using several incense burning techniques
4) Exploring and observing the raw materials of incense 
5) Energetics of incense materials
6) Healing potential of incense burning
7) Incense and its role for mindfulness and emotional well-being
The Listening to Smoke online program includes a kit of key incense materials and tools that we will evaluate during the course and live sessions. 
The program is built from 6 sessions, that will take place over the summer on Thursdays, July 15th through September, from 8:00-9:00am Israel time. 
Introductory rate for students who sign up for the pilot program, please sign up no later than July 14th. 

Rose Milk Soap Bar

Rose Milk Soap Bar
Bragging about my upcoming soap bar... Rose Milk!
With organic goats milk from the neighbours and a gorgeous floral scent I reserved so far only for my personal facial soap. 
Are you ready for the soapy smooth deliciousness? This soap is made with goat's milk, honey, colloidal oatmeal, almond butter, apricot kernel oil, and rose clay. 

The scent is the most floral perfume I ever put in soap - a bouquet of rose and jasmine that will bring your bathing experience to a heavenly realm. Fit for a Queen!
Rose Milk Soap Bar will complete its curing process in just a few days, may 29th. 
You can pre-order Rose Milk Soap in Ayala Moriel Parfums online boutique while it's still in stock - there are only 14 bars in this batch and I have a feeling they will be gone fast. 

Enfleurage Mini-Course

Enfleurage Mini-Course

Ever wished that Lilac season lasted a little longer or wanted to capture the scent of your garden and just bottle it? This is a dream you can make true as long as you have access to an ample supply of fresh flowers, and a few everyday tools and materials that are readily accessible.
Enfleurage is a labour-intense art form, in which the scent exhaled by living flowers is captured and preserved. It is one of the most rewarding projects, that once you understand the principles of, you could set off on your own to extract from many fragrant flowers, and truly connects you to the earth, the seasons and the beautiful world of scent. 

An Enfleurage Mini-Course is offered this spring via Zoom, and includes three one-hour sessions in which we'll learn the principles of preparing traditional yet vegan enfleurage, extraction and also two less known methods of capturing flowers beauty for years to come. 

Students receive a written Enfleurage Primer with all the materials and equipment necessary for this process, as well as a list of recommended botanicals, and access to the 3 enfleurage live Zoom classes and their recording, which will demonstrate each step of the process. 

The course begins this week, Thursday, May 27th, and takes place from 4:00-5:00pm Israel time.  

New Service: "Secret Admirer" Monthly Subscription Boxes

New Service:

Would you like to really know what's really going on in a perfumer's mind? This is as close as it can get!

Get a whiff of what's brewing at Ayala Moriel's studio each month, including some of the vintage, limited editions, discontinued and secret scents that haven't been released yet - that's why we call this service "Secret Admirer"!

Each month you'll receive an adorable tiny box set, which will include 1-2 unique scents and/or incense cones (the easiest method of burning incense anytime, anywhere) that get made here under the muse's spell, from seasonal and limited-availability and foraged raw materials. Each box is carefully curated for that very particular time of year, a mix of our from our less-known and most beloved fragrances, as well as some are one of a kind creations especially made for this occasion. It's a wonderful way to create scent-memories as the year progresses, something you can unbox the following year and reminisce over time and again. 

"Secret Admirer" Monthly Subscription Box is dedicated to perfume lovers and anyone who loves a fragrant surprise present in the mail and appreciate natural fragrance and incense! This is a new way to experience Ayala Moriel's creation, in a more intimate, imaginative and creative way.

$29.99/month, $239 for the annual subscription (save $125) 

New Service: Seasonal Subscription Boxes

New Service: Seasonal Subscription Boxes


Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a perfumer's lab? This is the next best thing! Get a whiff of what's brewing in Ayala Moriel Parfums studio each season, which is not only perfume! I also create incense, soaps and natural cosmetics from the best ingredients on the planet, fragrant teas and even chocolates! 

If you follow my feeds (on Instagram and Facebook), you probably already noticed that I just love plants and love growing, harvesting and handcrafting beautiful things from them. Some are fragrant, such as incense, enfleurage, and hysrosols, but are not exactly feasible to produce in large amounts as they are so precious and time-consuming to extract, and are truly too precious to offer regularly in my selection at the online boutique. At the same time, what's the point of making them if I can't share them with you?

And so I've decided to leverage my various interests and experimentations with anything plant-related, to bring to you one-of-a-kind packaging for these seasonal delights. These are bundles of joy and delight, each a surprise that is carefully curated each season, and although all are made by one pair of hands, I believe they will be just as versatile and surprising as any subscription box you could dream of. 

Therefore, you won't be getting boxes per-se, but rather, packaging that is handmade, beautiful, sustainable and reusable - Furoshiki from up cycled fabrics, locally made botanical Japanese-style paper (a collaboration with a local artisan), and last but not least - eco-printed natural fabrics and baskets that I weave from wild and local plants I harvest and forage around my beautiful studio in Clil, in the Western Galilee of Israel.
The Summer Subscription box is schedule to be ready to travel to you in June, so that you have it in time to celebrate the Summer Solstice. The following seasonal mailouts are planned to coincide with the Autumnal Equinox, Winter Solstice and Vernal Equinox in the spring. 

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