$120.00
Omixochitl, the Aztec name for tuberose (Agava amica), means "Bone Flower", alluding to its white colour and nocturnal behaviour, and use in funeral rites. Tuberose is a haunting flower with a complex profile, narcotic, simultaneously heady, creamy and smooth, redolent of high-pitched blossoms and undergrowth.
Guided by the philosophy that what grows together goes together, an especially creamy and intense batch of tuberose was paired with other botanicals indigenous to the region: in-home infusion of copal oro resin, palo santo and vanilla absolute, balanced by the freshness piñon pine, and a bitter-herbaceous white sage.
Each rectangular tin contains approximately 10 grams of long lasting and concentrated tuberose solid perfume.
$96.00
Leo
Sweet and sunny incense, cinnamon and orange blossom makes leo perfume as warm as its ruler, the Sun, and full of potential for growth, will power and determination. The warmth of the Sun and warmth of the Heart.
From the centre of our being descends our will and power to love.
Top notes: Neroli
Heart notes: Roman Chamomile, Rose, Cinnamon
Base notes: Frankincense, Vanilla
Fragrance Family: Opulent Woody, Fruity Floral
Leo birthdate: July 23 - August 22
$92.00
Gourmand Sampler Set includes all of Ayala Moriel's food-inspired fragrances, featuring an overdose of delicious notes such as vanilla, cacao, coffee, licorice, honey, butter and more: Black Licorice, Cabaret, Film Noir, Finjan, Immortelle l’Amour, Roses et Chocolat, Sahleb, Zangvil.
$12.00
Love immortal encompassed in the unfolding petals of the immortal flower… A love etched deeply in a bleeding heart aching with pain. The lovers’ walk interrupted by the ghostly winds and misty sea spray. Hearts warming to the dancing flames in the fireplace, their longing for a kiss freezes on the snow like Tire sur la Neiges… The maple-like nuances of immortelle absolute are used here along with sweet orange, cinnamon, wheat and three different kinds of vanilla, creating a perfume that truly captures the aroma of cinnamon-pancakes and Tire d’Erable (“taffee on the snow”), an inseparable part of the Quebec heritage in the Maple Harvest Festivals. You’ll find it hard to resist licking this perfume, but it will prove to be a true friend for a love-injured heart.
Top notes: Sweet Orange, Cinnamon
Heart notes: Broom (Genet), Vanilla CO2, Wheat Absolute
Base notes: Immortelle, Rooibos (Red Tea), Vanilla Absolute, Benzoin Siamese, Vanilla Extract
Fragrance Families: Gourmand, Spicy
* Also available as a perfumed tea!
$12.00
Inbar is Hebrew for amber, and is a fresh interpretation of a genre that tends to be syrupy sweet, powdery and linear. Here it's been given some oomph with herbaceous Garrigue notes that cut through the old-fashioned ambreine accord: wild oregano oil and tincture of sharp varthemia that I foraged and prepared myself from the mountain on which my studio is built.
Top notes: Bergamot, Wild Oregano
Heart notes: Jasmine, Rose, Clary Sage, Varthemia, Propolis
Base notes: Labdanum, Vanilla, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Benzoin, Hyraceum
Fragrance Families: Opulent Ambery
$49.00
This Día de los Muertos Kyphi Ofrenda is a contemporary interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Kyphi recipes, using Central American ingredients to honour the dead. This kyphi is created to be placed on the Ofrenda (the home altar for the deceased, with offerings to honour the dead), as well as burnt in funerals and memorial ceremonies. Copal resin and Palo Santo are mixed with Yerba Santa, Lemon Verbena, cinnamon and vanilla, creating a soothing aromatic concoction that will feed even the hungriest lost souls.
Each raw material was ground separately, then they are all compounded together in a mixture of organic honey and raisins soaked in tequila. This not only binds together the ingredients but also creates an alchemical process that truly transforms the aroma of the incense and creates a heavenly smoke when burnt on a charcoal.
It can also be used by placing on an aromatherapy diffuser (place on a piece of aluminum foil to prevent it from sticking to your diffuser). If using a glazed ceramic or heat proof glass vessel for the incense, cleaning it with warm water and vinegar from time to time would suffice.
$18.00
Malabi, the queen of Middle Eastern summer desserts, is a milk pudding served chilled and bejewelled by a fragrant rosy syrup. But what always captured the perfumer's imagination the most about malabi was its soft, evocatively sounding name, and its unique fragrant combination of rosewater and neroli. Two noble flowers, yet so distinctively different that it's surprising they would ever get along at all. Rose is open, voluptuous, sweet and feminine. Neroli is prim and proper, restrained, clean, ethereal and otherworldly that you'd be surprised it grows on a tree. And what holds these two together is nothing but pure, botanical musk. This gentle deer-musk-like accord doesn't need arrows, and plays the harp better than cupid: it walks silently and pulls all the strings with effortless fluidity.
Top notes: Bitter Orange, Blood Orange, Cardamom, Coriander
Heart notes: Neroli (Tunisia), Orange Blossom Absolute, Rose Absolute (Bulgaria), Rose Absolute (Turkey),
Base notes: Atlas Cedarwood, Musk Notes, Myrrh
Fragrance Families: Floral, Gourmand
$39.00
Newly formulated Palo Santo incense that is smooth and sweet, accentuating the soothing and warming properties of this magical wood, and highlighting its aesthetic qualities.
Palo Santo has a strong, affirmative presence, and on its own there is a certain sharpness to its resinous-woody-balsamic character. In this special incense blend, I have attempted to soften its rough edges, and bring forth a new quality I found in it while meditating on the wood alone: the thick smoke from smudging creates a feeling of being hugged from the inside, and a profound sense of being supported and cared for.
It is paired with sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, cinnamon and and a unique combination of wood binders that gives it a soft, sweet smoke and creates a warm, cozy feeling that will make your home feel cozy and protected.
Palo Santo is a sacred tree that grows in the Rainforests of Central and South America, where it has been used for time immemorial in smudging ceremonies and healing rituals. It is grounding, balancing, promotes mental health as it is both uplifting, energizing and protective. Palo Santo develops the essential oils and resin that give it its unique perfume only after the tree dies down, teaching us that even after death, separation and endings there is hope for beauty and strength.
Palo Santo incense cones are hand-rolled in the traditional East-Indian method, made only from finely ground botanicals: Palo santo wood, sandalwood, cinnamon, vanilla and tonka bean, and bound with natural gums or wood bark. No saltpetre or charcoal used in these cones.
Each box contains a dozen cones.
$96.00
Stubborn and determined as a bull is the sign of Taurus. It is also a sign of beauty and strength. Taurus is an Earth sign ruled by Venus. Being a fixed sign it is also associated with Air to some extent (hence the use of the bit of lavender) or the principle of sulphur. The oils chosen are earthy and representing the abundance and beauty of earth.
Top notes: Clementine, Lavender, Palmarosa
Heart notes: Rose Otto, Rose Absolute
Base notes: Vanilla, Benzoin, Patchouli
Fragrance family: Patchouli-Rose
$12.00
Top notes: Yuzu, Blackcurrant buds, Coriander
Heart notes: Jasmine sambac, Hyacinth, Frangipani
Base notes: Atlas cedarwood, Ambrette seed, Vanilla
Fragrance Families: Floral Fruity, Floral Ambery, Woody
* Also available in as a body oil.
** All proceeds from sales of this perfume are forwarded to a trust fund for the perfumer's daughter, who has autism. So far we've fundraised $2,798 from sales of Tamya perfumes. Thank you for your help!
$18.00
Treazon is tuberose at its darkest and most dangerous moment – right after dark. From than on, the seemingly innocent little white flowers’ aroma is so intoxicating, that young ladies were prohibited from walking through tuberose fields, from fear that their decency will be betrayed, and their innocence defeated by lust.
Top notes: Aniseed, Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Sweet Birch, Cassis
Heart notes: Tuberose Absolute, Orange Blossom, Orris Root
Base notes: Benzoin, Vanillla, Massoia Bark, African Stone Tincture
Fragrance Family: White Floral
$12.00
This new soap bar truly captures the scent of the Mediterranean garrigue! Made from olive-oil and water infusions of wild Varthemia plant in all of the soap's phases and additionally perfumed with cysts resin (labdanum). It creates a beautiful bar of soap, superfatted - which means it has wonderful moisturizing qualities due to high content of unsaponified oils within the formula. It is the same rich-lathering formula we've always had for our soaps, now handcrafted in our new studio in Clil by yours truly!
We're using olive oil that was cold-pressed from olive which were organically grown in a Druze village near Mt. Meron; Oganic virgin coconut oil (both are food grade), palm oil and castor oil for that extra emollient quality. The result is a hard, long-lasting bar with rich lather that is very moisturizing - a real treat for your skin, hair and even for shaving; and with a delicate Varthemia scent. It's aroma here is rather subtle, making it perfect for those who are sensitive to scent.
Ingredients: Saponified vegetable oils (coconut, olive, palm, castor), water, labdanum resin, varthemia leaves