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An original romantic gift for anniversaries, birthdays, weddings and Valentine's Day. Each item is carefully selected and made with love, to the last detail including the packaging and wrapping.   

Presented in a hand woven miniature Zarzo basket made from date palm inflorescence. Each is woven by hand from natural materials so slight design variation will occur based on the material and other factors that influence such unique and personal endeavour.

This cute basket will comfortably fit your hand, and can store up to three perfume bottles, three bars of soap or any combination of gifts you'd like to gift someone special. Eco friendly and reusable gift wrapping that can be utilized in multiple ways after it has been unwrapped.  

For Valentine's Day, we suggest the following: Aphrodisiac mini trio (Immortelle l'Amour, Lavender, Roses & Chocolat), Roses & Resins beautifying facial unguent,  Anointing Body Oil, Venus (Aphrodite) Incense Pastilles, Rose Milk Soap Bar, Artisanal Chocolate and/or Rahat Lukoum  

* It is possible to customize the contents of the basket to include other scents, soaps or your choice of incense.

This Virtual Scent-Trip is an Incense & Tea Ceremony that is inspired by Jules Verne's novel and the ongoing travel restrictions: an evening around the world through scent and aroma. We'll follow Phileas Fogg's route with his French butler Passepartout - enjoying French lavender, sipping English tea, exploring Calabrian Etrog, and exotic incense and perfumes such as Egyptian Kyphi, Ethiopean myrrh, Indian Attars and Nag Champa incense, Sandalwood incense from the Buddhist shrines of Hong Kong, rare aromas from the Japanese ceremonial bath and incense games, and we'll complete our round trip with North America's botanical treasures - Western Redcedar, White Sage, Tobacco and Sweetgrass, before returning to London for more tea and hot scones with jam.

Can be scheduled in person at a date and time that is convenient for you and up to 8 other discerning souls; or online via Zoom for up to 20 people, with an accompanying kit of all the incenses, teas and perfumes to experience that you will receive in the mail in advance when joining remotely, and a winning recipe for scones (the kit is included in the pricing).

P.s. This unique scent-trip is in loving memory of Ruth Moriel, who has circumvented the world more than once in her first 88 years of life. She lived on for another nine years traveling to shorter distances, not any less enjoyable and adventurous. She has survived WWII, escaped the Holocaust and countless wars and battles in her life, until she crossed over to the other realm peacefully in her sleep during the first COVID-19 lock-down in April 2020. Ruth will be forever remembered, loved and missed by her daughters, grandchildren and great-grand-children, and many other family members and friends for whom she has always been a source of inspiration and support.

The perfume for the winter holidays is a heart-warming mélange of incense and woods, with fir and pine needles and warm spices. The luxurious heart notes - absolutes of orange blossom, jasmine and rose - create a departure from the common festive aromas. The result is a perfume that is fresh, natural, rich and extremely festive.

Top notes: Juniper Berry, Cedarwood, Bitter Orange

Heart notes: Orange Blossom, Rose, Jasmine, Pimento Berry, Cinnamon

Base notes: Frankincense, Myrrh, Tolu, Fir Absolute

Fragrance Families: Spicy, Woody, Incense

Bois d'Hiver Nerikoh evokes a snow-laden forest of ancient conifer trees. Picture in mind the towering pillars of a forest cathedral, made entirely of giant redcedars, Douglas fir trees and Hemlock Spruce, their evergreen branches laden with impeccably white snow. 

Bois d'Hiver Nerikoh was created especially for Yule - the Winter Solstice. To celebrate the spirits of the forest and anticipate the return of the sun with fragrant smoke from resins and foraged botanicals carefully blended and shaped into tiny round soft-pellets that produce a aroma, redolent of precious resins (frankincense, myrrh, sandarac, and wild harvested piñon resin and spruce pitch by my friends in Canada and the USA), mingled with forest-foraged needles and saps from spruce, balsam fir, and juniper berries, and many other fragrant spices, and brightened by clary sage from my garden and bright grapefruit blossoms from my orchard. It is anchored in cedarwood, sandalwood, and a pinch of agarwood and snowy Borneol camphor.

Nerikoh is a traditional Japanese kneaded incense, that is hand-rolled and aged and fermented underground for several months or years. It is less known in the west and often burnt during the tea ceremony because they are a refined and smoke-free form of incense. Precious woods, herbs and spices are finely ground and bound together with honey and dried fruit, then rolled into tiny balls. 

To use Nerikoh: Kneaded incense is not meant to be burnt, but rather warmed in traditional Koh-Doh cup, or for more convieneinct and accessible technique - place on top of an electric incense heater or aromatherapy lamp/diffuser. You'll only a tiny pinch of each ball to scent a room for hours on end, releasing  gentle yet enveloping and exotic aroma. 

Just like the miniature tree, “Bon Zai” is the essence of nature, with all of its simplicity, beauty and silent glory. Japanese woods and exotic herbs harmonize together to create this unusual and refreshing scent. Like a resilient evergreen tree, it survives all seasons and moods.

Top notes: Cedar wood, Juniper, Tangerine

Heart notes: Verbena, Shiso, Rose

Base notes: Agarwood, Patchouli, Vetiver

Fragrance Families: Woody, Citrus, Incensey  

Fête d'Hiver (Winter Festival) is a heart-warming mélange of incense, amber and resins, along with tropical white flowers, warmed up by spices. The result is as soft as powdery snow and as warm as cuddling by the fire place on a furry rug. Fête d'Hiver is extremely beautiful, sensual and festive yet wonderful to year around.

Top notes: Bitter Orange, Nutmeg, Bois de Rose

Heart notes: Rose, Gardenia, Allspice Berry

Base notes: Incense, Amber, Sandalwood

Fragrance Family: Opulent Spicy, Opulent Ambery

Fête d'Hiver incense evokes a snow-covered rose garden, cobblestoned ancient city, blanketed with snow on the longest night of the year. Whiffs of fragrant mulled wine escape the door as someone enters it, shaking the snow off their furry coat collar.  Picture yourself entering an ancient stone cathedral for Midnight Mass, lit with beeswax candles on the darkest night of the year, and shrouded in a thick cloud of frankincense smoke mingled with roses, lilies and orchard breeze from far away lands. 

Fête d'Hiver incense was created especially for the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. The fragrance is redolent of frankincense, amber, rose, jasmine, orange peel, grapefruit blossoms and spices. It is rich, dense and 

Fête d'hived Winter Solstice Incense cones come in a box containing paper-wrapped bundle of 18 incense sticks. 

To burn the incense sticks: Place the lit stick (light the tip and then blow out the flame) on a bowl full of ash (preferably rice ash). This will enable the stick to burn without any bits left off. If you have a designated incense dish with a hole you may also use that. It will leave a tiny bit of incense unused though.