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The Forebreath
This is a wonderful tapestry of thoughts about scent, time and mindfulness. Too good not to share!
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
There is a scent on the wind that unearths the past. It whispers tales of forgotten lands once traveled yet faded to the far corners of the mind. It conjures ancient memory, times long removed from us, but inherently part of who we are. This is the petrichor of the mind, revisiting us on the winds of life.
It is said that the olfactory is one of the more primitive parts of the human body. With one scent we can recall a specific day of our past, a perfectly visited moment spurred to the front of the mind.
Sometimes, the past travels on the wind. A stoic reminder of life lived yesterday.
I am often reminded of specific things; a day at track practice or a time spent walking by the creek bank. Sometimes it’s…
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- SALE! Song of India incense sticks on sale until the end of January 2017! 150 gram pack is $6.00 and 60 gram pack is $2.75. This helps to support R.Expo, a company that uses a portion of proceeds from this incense to support girls and boys in need in India. What the world needs now is more support of great companies!
- Amber Resin. Warm, vanilla, sometimes citrusy high notes, always sweet. This substance is not resin in the strict sense of the word. It is not solely derived from trees or shrubs. It is not only plant matter. Good amber resin is made of butters such as Cocoa Butter or another type of butter, resins, perfumes, vanilla and other scents. This wonderful scent can be used to scent the body, scent the home or scent products. it can be burnt on prepared charcoal. We have a small locket to hold a piece of amber around the neck! We have been told by some customers that our dark amber calms spirits. Another customer uses her amber to make perfume-real perfumers perfume. Violet and Company has both light and dark amber for sale. The light amber has a decidedly citrus overtone. The dark amber lacks this citrus high notes. We sell amber on our website (www.violetandcompany.com) and on Etsy (VioletAndCompany). This month we created a video showing what we do with little pieces of amber that are left over. Check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQI-4X4RaM Leave us a message to let us know about your experience with Amber fragrance resin.
