Fragrant Space
Homemade and all natural
Fragrance
All natural perfume made with the highest quality pure essential oils.
Free Love
This perfume includes the classic essential oil, patchouli, which was made famous in the 60’s as an aphrodisiac.
Apply this fragrance to create a sense of hope, brightness, openness and universal love. If you feel mad or sad, apply this fragrance and listen to some 60’s rock music to instantly change your mood.
Ingredients: Essential oils of lemon grass, patchouli, ylang ylang in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Nile
The combination of roman and blue chamomile makes this a sweet and herbaceous floral fragrance that is warm and long lasting with a mossy, watery undertone.
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Wear this fragrance while watching a documentary on Egypt or reading Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume by Mandy Aftel
Ingredients: Essential oils of geranium, petitgrain, roman chamomile, blue chamomile and neroli in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Elemental
This is an earthy, smooth, warm fragrance with a spicy middle note from the clove. It is long lasting and perfect for solid perfumes. Shells found on the beach provide a creative, rustic container for solid perfumes.
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Wear this while watching Koyaanisqatsi a film about the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Ingredients: Essential oils of violet leaf, lavender absolute, geranium, oakmoss absolute and clove​ in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Tranquility
Tranquility perfume is a chypre type fragrance that has a warm, mossy base with grassy, floral top notes. It promotes a sense of calm and relaxation. This is beautiful as a solid perfume. I use creative containers such as trinkets boxes, found shells, pill boxes and lockets for solid perfumes.
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Wear this while sitting under a shady tree reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
Ingredients: Essential oils of clary sage, frankincense, virginia cedarwood, vetiver, oakmoss in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Pua
Pua is the Hawaiian word for flower. The fruity top note gives this a fantastic genie out of the bottle start. This blend is a complex and beautiful floral scent with just enough base notes to create a long lasting, lingering scent that supports the jasmine floral note for hours.
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Wear this while reading The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr.
Ingredients: Essential oils of grapefruit, jasmine, carrot seed and ambrette seed in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Moss
This is potent and mossy with a smooth, evocative and tenacious damp earth aroma.
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Wear this while sitting in a shady, quiet spot in the garden while reading Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
Ingredients: Essential oils of petitgrain, oakmoss absolute, grapefruit and labdanum in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Rajni Gandha
This is potent and intoxicating when first applied. It will mellow into a smoldering floral aroma, like an aged flower just about to fall from the plant. This is the wabi-sabi phase. The Hindi name for tuberose is Rajnigandha which means “night-fragrant”. The Bengali name is Rajoni-Gandha, translating to “scent of the night”.
Wear this when traveling to tropical locations, or to remind you of your last vacation, or while reading Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid by Tim Ecott or poetry by Rabindrantah Tagore.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of tuberose, neroli, black pepper and vanilla in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Aragorn
This fragrance is fresh and woodsy and damp. It smells like a shady, clear river meandering slowly in the bottom of a canyon. This foresty, green, woodsy scent works for men or women. Apply this to feel courageous, noble and strong.
Wear this when reading Les Oberles by Rene Bazen or poetry by e.e. cummings or The Meaning of Trees: Botany, History, Healing, Lore by Fred Hageneder.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of oakmoss absolute, lavender, blue german chamomile, bay laurel, fir needle, ginger, jasmine, cedarwood, tagetes (marigold) in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Legolas
Uplifiting and woodsy. This is the scent of a forest at sunrise when the forest floor is dappled with light that warms the thick cover of pine needles and leaves. The uplifting top notes are relatively strong in the beginning but they quickly blend with the basenotes of frankincense and myrrh. Muhuhu (African Sandalwood) is an eco alternative to sandalwood essential oil. It is a hard wood native to Tanzania and Kenya that is used to make hardwood floors. The leftover scrap material is distilled to make the essential oil.
Apply this before a walk in the forest, or while watching Lord of the Rings, or The Jungle Book, or another forest fantasy.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of lavender, bergamot, fir needle, juniper, ho wood, cedar wood, black pepper, patchouli, muhuhu, frankincense and myrrh in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Boromir
Strong, masculine scent with a powerful, long lasting dry down. Apply sparingly. You'll gets wafts of this long lasting, all natural fragrance the next morning. It's a natural for men, but I encourage women to wear it to boost their yang. If you ever smell pure vetiver essential oil, it will instantly conjure images of Heathcliff on the moody moors or Boromir's brave last stand in the forest.
Wear this fragrance when chopping wood in the snow, or running through a heath covered in gorse, or being jostled in the middle of a mosh pit.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of bergamot, vetiver, fir, peppermint in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Ryokucha
Ryokucha in the Japanese word for tea. The basis of this perfume is the green tea basenote. Sencha green tea is covered with fractionated coconut oil or jojoba oil for 6 months. The oil is then saturated with the scent and color of the green tea. This oil is a strong and powerful scent that needs a lot of blending to soften the edges and balance the grassy sencha aroma. It blends perfectly with woodsy leafy aromas. Ho wood is a sustainable alternative to Rosewood and was traditionally used to treat Japanese sword handles.
Wear this fragrance when you prepare matcha tea, or while watching the Last Samurai.
Ingredients:
Sencha green tea base oil, essential oils of grapefruit, ho wood (eco alternative to rosewood), muhuhu (eco alternative to sandalwood), black pepper and violet leaf.
Sundari
Sundari is my most popular fragrance. A beautiful, classical floral with a bit of green from the lavender and a rosy woody note from the ho wood. Sundari means harmonious beauty. Blue Chamomile is a thick, inky essential oil with a heavy, intoxicating scent. It is used very sparingly in this blend to add just a bit of the heady, giddy feelings of love, joy and other endorphin-induced pleasures.
Apply this just before a luxurious hot bath, or any time you wear high heels, or while reading Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers by Sharman Apt.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of lavender, bergamot, palmarosa, neroli, ho wood (eco alternative to rosewood), jasmine, blue (German) chamomile, ylang ylang in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Sublime
A voluptuous fragrance with a basenote of vetiver, an Indian grass that gives an earthy, moist support to spicy cardamom and delicate floral heart notes. Orris root and iris leaf absolute is my favorite aromatic ingredient. I also use it to make a pure, single note solid perfume. It is the very essence of nature. It blends the scent of wood, grass, soil, petals, sky and rain.
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Wear this on a rainy day, or anytime you visit a river or a waterfall.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of cardamom, geranium, grapefruit, ylang ylang, vetiver, patchouli and orris root iris leaf absolute in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Elemental
This fragrance captures the elemental scent of freshly turned earth in a citrus grove. The citrus notes of grapefruit are extended with jasmine and carrot seed and a touch of vetiver.
Wear this fragrance while gardening, or mowing the lawn.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of grapefruit, jasmine, carrot, vetiver and ambrette seed absolute in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Euphoric
This powerful blend starts with a top note of lavender that quickly blends into a lemony frankincense and ends on a deep mossy note.
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Wear this fragrance to enjoy the present moment and to dream big dreams.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of frankincense, lavender absolute, oakmoss absolute in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Tat Sundaram
An uplifting blend with top notes of grapefruit and lavender that rest on the warmth of carrot seed oil and a woody floral base of jasmine and vetiver.
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Wear this for japa meditation or yoga class.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of grapefruit, lavender, geranium, carrot, jasmine, vetiver in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Akhenaten
This is the scent of an ancient Egyptian temple during the first offerings of the day. This fragrance is based on essences that were typically used for oil-based unguents or dry incense; frankincense, cedarwood, muhuhu (eco alternative to sandalwood) and spikenard. Spikenard was also used by ancient Hebrews in the old temple of Jerusalem.
Apply this when you go to a museum, or listen to Gustaz Holts The Planets, or read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of muhuhu (eco alternative to sandalwood), cedarwood, frankincense, vetiver, spikenard, ambrette, nutmeg in a base of fractionated coconut oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).
Fiji
A light, fleeting fragrance inspired by the brilliant green-blue aqua color that circles the small white sand islands of Fiji. This scent is reminiscent of ocean water. It won't last long, but the base of muhuhu and ylang ylang will keep it going throughout dinner on the beach or the veranda.
This is the perfect beach vacation fragrance. Get it in solid perfume form because it travels well and can be thrown into your purse to apply just before dinner.
Wear it on the plane to begin your vacation early or while digging your toes into a sandy beach.
Ingredients:
Essential oils of geranium, muhuhu (eco alternative to sandalwood), blue german chamomile, roman chamomile, ylang ylang in a base of jojoba oil (and beeswax for solid perfumes).