Workshops
Join Ayala for a series of fun and interactive, hands-on workshops integrating theory and practice of olfactory and culinary arts. Learn how to create perfumed products and beautifully flavoured foods with essential oils, floral waters, fresh spices and herbs. These workshops have no pre-requisites, except that you must sign up and pay in advance to reserve your spot, as spaces are extremely limited. Most classes and workshops are held at Ayala Moriel Parfums studio, and have spaces for 6 students. Group booking is most recommended if you want to ensure the workshop you're interested in will run at the date of your choice. Gather a group of up to 5 more friends, and sign up for an experience of a lifetime creating your own scented products!
Many of the workshops are suitable for special events such as bridal showers/stagettes, birthday parties, retirement parties, and other lifetime landmarks.
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Aroud the World in 80 Minutes
$60.00
Visit product page →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.
מסביב לעולם ב-80 דקותמסע ריחני וחובק עולמות בהשראת ז׳ול וורן ותחת הגבלות המסע. יחד נרחרח את דרכינו בין יבשות העולם, ונפגוש קטורות נדירות ובשמים מעלפים לפי המסלול של פיליאס פוג ומשרתו הזריז פספרטו:תה אנגלי, לבנדר צרפתי, אתרוג מקלבריה ויערה איטלקית, מור מאתיופיה, קייפי מצרי, אטר הודי וקטורת נג שמפה (קונוסים הודיים מסורתיים), קטורת סנדלווד מסורתית ממקדשי הונג קונג, הינוקי יפאני לאמבטיה טקסית וג׳ינקו למשחקי הקטורת היפניים. נסיים בארז אדום, מרווה לבנה ועשב מתוק מצפון אמריקה לפני שנחזור לאנגליה לעוד כוס תה וקינוח...תאריך ושעה שתבחרו (הסטודיו שלי פעיל בימים א-ה) לפרטים והזמנות במייל או טקסט בלבד Ayala@AyalaMoriel.com 0504378866 -
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Art of Incense
$50.00
Visit product page →Learn about the origins of incense and create your own incense using precious resins, gums, woods, spices and herbs. We will pulverize, grind and mix together raw materials that were used in incense makig since time immemorial. After experiencing first hand the sensual aromatic process of incense making you may never look at incense the same way again...We offer three types of incense workshops. Choose the kind you'd like - or sign up for an in-depth series or full day workshop, incorporating all these ancient techniques (Each is priced individually).
1. Smudge WandsIntroduction to incense history and raw materials. Forage botanicals for making incense wands/smudge stick from wild and local medicinal herbs.
2. Loose Incense
Spotlight on resins and composition of a loose incense using resins, herbs and spices.
3. KyphiRelying on an ancient Egyptian recipe, we'll pulverize and grind various resins, herbs, precious woods and spices in a mixture of wine and raisins, and create small pellets that can be burned on a charcoal or electric incense heater or diffuser. You'll be able to pick up the Kyphi you made after a week (or get it mailed to you).
4. Incense Pastilles
Incense "candy" that is made of various type of resins, with added liquid, rolled into balls and burnt on charcoal or on aromatherapy diffuser).Very suitable for children, as this type of incense is faster to make and does not require long drying time, and can be taken home the same day.נכיר ונבעיר סוגי קטורת שונים (מקלות קטורת, קונוסים ושרפים על גחלים לוחשות), ונכין יחד סוכריות של קטורת (Incense Pastilles) משרפים עתיקים כגון מור ולבונה שכתשנו ועירבבנו יחד עם שמנים אתריים ותבלינים - כל אחד לפי טעמו האישי.כל אחד ייקח הביתה את הסוכריות שיצר, וגחלים להבערה בבית.משך זמן: 1.5-2 שעות
5. Neirkoh
Japanese incense pastilles - like soft incense caramels that are designed for warming on a hot plate rather than burning. Made from complex aromatics and aged for several months.
6. Incense Trails & Body Incense
Unique Japanese technique for incense burning, as well as perfuming the body or cleansing before entering temples for prayer and meditation. This class also serves as preparation for the most complex form of combustible incense.7. Incense ConesMore technically advanced, this incense is hand-shaped into little cones that can stand on their base and are self burning - just like the more familiar joss-sticks, once they are ignited, they burn slowly from the tip to the bottom. Preparing them requires fine balancing of the ingredients and meticulous shaping, therefore taking much longer. You'll be able to pick up the cones you made after a week (or get them mailed to you).
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Listening to Scent (Incense Ceremony)
$43.00
Visit product page →Listening to Scent: Modern Incense Ceremony Inspired by Ancient TraditionsInspired by Koh-Doh (Japanese incense ceremony), we'll burn incense from all over the world and learn how to listen to the scent and the primordial emotions and ancient knowledge it evokes. Experience exotic and rare botanicals used for millennia for their healing and spiritual qualities and fine aroma - from biblical frankincense and myrrh to exotic oud and sandalwood. We'll also discover unique incense blends such as Egyptian Kyphi and Buddhist Cathusama.Price per person for groups up to 8 people: $23Group booking (between 6-9 persons): $300להקשיב לריח: טקס קטורת עכשיוי בהשראה מסורתיתבהשראת טקס הקו-דו היפני, נבעיר קטורת מקודשת מרחבי העולם ונלמד להקשיב לריח, ולקולות הפנימיים והקדומים שהוא מעורר.נחוה חומרי גלם נדירים ואקזוטיים, כגון מור, לבונה, עוד וסנדלווד, וגם תערובות עתיקות כמו הקטהוסאמה הבודהיסטית והקייפי המצרי, שנחשב לבושם הראשון בהסטוריה.משך זמן: 1.5-2 שעותמתאים לקבוצות בין 6-20 אישעלות לבודדים (קבוצות עד 9 איש שמתקיימות בסטודיו של אילה): 100עלות לקבוצה של 6-9 משתתפים: 1,130 -
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Listening to Smoke - Incense Appreciation Online Course
$450.00
Visit product page →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 training. This will help you understand the pyrotechnic aspects, and enable you to know which material is appropriate for which incense burning (and making) technique. Last but not least, in this course we will learn how to study and appreciate individual incense 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:
1) Types of incense2) How to explore and observe the raw materials3) How to burn incense from several incense burning techniques4) Exploring and observing the raw materials of incense5) Energetics of incense materials6) Healing potential of incense burning7) Incense and its role for mindfulness and emotional well-beingThe 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 6:00-7:00am Israel time.
