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    Milky, custardy, coconut-flecked gardenia blossom. This particular variety has a beautiful form, high on the lactones notes, low on the mushroom ones. Do you like fresh gardenias’ scent? Earlier in summer, the flowers were enfleuraged for a perfume for the final hup-dayt of the year. Feeling very ready for the year’s slow winding down. You too? ( Saving my words and deeper thoughts for newsletters and classes. Watch Stories if you want to see glimpses of the day to day. 🤍) #enfleurage#flowerlove#smellthis#botanicalperfume#jevaisaupif#artisanperfumer#olfactoryarts#greenbeauty#slowscent
    Milky, custardy, coconut-flecked gardenia blossom. This particular variety has a beautiful form, high on the lactones notes, low on the mushroom ones. Do you like fresh gardenias’ scent? Earlier in summer, the flowers were enfleuraged for a perfume for the final hup-dayt of the year. Feeling very ready for the year’s slow winding down. You too? ( Saving my words and deeper thoughts for newsletters and classes. Watch Stories if you want to see glimpses of the day to day. 🤍) #enfleurage#flowerlove#smellthis#botanicalperfume#jevaisaupif#artisanperfumer#olfactoryarts#greenbeauty#slowscent
    Carnation is often considered a fuddy-duddy scent, but I love its clove scented frills and fresh green depths. Fleurs Épicées pinions carnation and rose in a spicy amber atmosphere…dark, seemingly bottomless, enduring and intimate. This is one of three perfumes offered in the update, live through this week. Lately I’ve been thinking about the perfumes I create in terms of darkness and light. While Fleurs Épicées rests mainly in warm, dark depths, like being enveloped in love, A Meadow shimmers in fields of light, ethereal, held to earth by the curious punctuation of immortelle amidst the chamomile, roses, and grasses. Manon des Sources is right in the middle.. the blazing sun of Provencal herbes sauvage, the mushroom laden crevices of scrub forest; long shadows and cool minerals of spring-fed cavern pools; the fresh, but quickly hot respite of petrichor in drought. Perfume creating is somewhere between painting, music and poetry. If it doesn’t register as such, it’s merely a scent, not a perfume. #jevaisaupif#olfactoryart#plantartist#botanicalperfumery #slowscent#indieperfumer#artisanperfume#fragrantpath#aromatics#greenbeauty#smellthis#tenderflowerperfume#naturalperfume
    Carnation is often considered a fuddy-duddy scent, but I love its clove scented frills and fresh green depths. Fleurs Épicées pinions carnation and rose in a spicy amber atmosphere…dark, seemingly bottomless, enduring and intimate. This is one of three perfumes offered in the update, live through this week. Lately I’ve been thinking about the perfumes I create in terms of darkness and light. While Fleurs Épicées rests mainly in warm, dark depths, like being enveloped in love, A Meadow shimmers in fields of light, ethereal, held to earth by the curious punctuation of immortelle amidst the chamomile, roses, and grasses. Manon des Sources is right in the middle.. the blazing sun of Provencal herbes sauvage, the mushroom laden crevices of scrub forest; long shadows and cool minerals of spring-fed cavern pools; the fresh, but quickly hot respite of petrichor in drought. Perfume creating is somewhere between painting, music and poetry. If it doesn’t register as such, it’s merely a scent, not a perfume. #jevaisaupif#olfactoryart#plantartist#botanicalperfumery #slowscent#indieperfumer#artisanperfume#fragrantpath#aromatics#greenbeauty#smellthis#tenderflowerperfume#naturalperfume
    How can flowers be so silent and say so much? #flowerlove#tenderthings#tenderlife #quietbeauty#botanicalperfume#indieperfumer#olfactoryart#fragrantpath#quietude#flowerlanguage#scent
    How can flowers be so silent and say so much? #flowerlove#tenderthings#tenderlife #quietbeauty#botanicalperfume#indieperfumer#olfactoryart#fragrantpath#quietude#flowerlanguage#scent
    Why is it the longer you take a break from posting, the harder it is to return? In truth, a rhetorical question, because once detached, you quickly realize the compromise in personal freedom and time to do as the metrics “want”, by regularly appearing. Quite the dilemma for an online based tiny business ! Reappearing here is a very lovely, unusual scent introduced last summer, A Meadow. It will be available with a few other things soon, but you need to be on the newsletter list to find out when. A Meadow summons the essence of a sunlit field of wildflowers, roses, chamomile, a touch of honeyed fruit, punctuated with Mediterranean herbs. #botanicalperfume#indieperfumer#wildflowerfragrance#lesprés#jevaisaupif#greenbeauty #slowsent#fragrantpath#aromaticlife#tenderflowerperfume
    Why is it the longer you take a break from posting, the harder it is to return? In truth, a rhetorical question, because once detached, you quickly realize the compromise in personal freedom and time to do as the metrics “want”, by regularly appearing. Quite the dilemma for an online based tiny business ! Reappearing here is a very lovely, unusual scent introduced last summer, A Meadow. It will be available with a few other things soon, but you need to be on the newsletter list to find out when. A Meadow summons the essence of a sunlit field of wildflowers, roses, chamomile, a touch of honeyed fruit, punctuated with Mediterranean herbs. #botanicalperfume#indieperfumer#wildflowerfragrance#lesprés#jevaisaupif#greenbeauty #slowsent#fragrantpath#aromaticlife#tenderflowerperfume
    Are you ever interested in learning more about the elemental beings in nature, those beings depicted artistically in fairy tales and folklore? It might surprise you to know they aren’t “little people” dressed in quaint clothing, and that you don’t even have to be clairvoyant to perceive their presence, or, to engage with them. There are many difficult happenings in our time. I thought it was time to offer some of the fruits of over 30 years of work with the elementals, in a class inspired by what the elementals themselves have been communicating to me the last few years. It’s a tender, loving class, though not sentimental, nor “woo”. It starts with where you/we are and this kingdom which is the bridge into the spiritual worlds, and in healthy inner development, shouldn’t be bypassed. There will be participatory work, context, pertinent anecdotes, and insightful suggestions from my direct experience plus metabolized sharings from Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s work. If you are concerned with the devastation in the world, amongst humans, in nature, and feel helpless, this is one key place to begin making a tangible difference . See link in Stories, or go to classes on website. Love, Donna #elementals#naturelove#biodynamics#biodynamicfarm#realfairytale#naturespirits#fairies#elves
    Are you ever interested in learning more about the elemental beings in nature, those beings depicted artistically in fairy tales and folklore? It might surprise you to know they aren’t “little people” dressed in quaint clothing, and that you don’t even have to be clairvoyant to perceive their presence, or, to engage with them. There are many difficult happenings in our time. I thought it was time to offer some of the fruits of over 30 years of work with the elementals, in a class inspired by what the elementals themselves have been communicating to me the last few years. It’s a tender, loving class, though not sentimental, nor “woo”. It starts with where you/we are and this kingdom which is the bridge into the spiritual worlds, and in healthy inner development, shouldn’t be bypassed. There will be participatory work, context, pertinent anecdotes, and insightful suggestions from my direct experience plus metabolized sharings from Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s work. If you are concerned with the devastation in the world, amongst humans, in nature, and feel helpless, this is one key place to begin making a tangible difference . See link in Stories, or go to classes on website. Love, Donna #elementals#naturelove#biodynamics#biodynamicfarm#realfairytale#naturespirits#fairies#elves
    Unusual materials extractions feature in every Tender Flower scent & skin product. For me it’s one of the most absorbing aspects of the work. It’s the only way to get an extraction of wool, soil, unusual fruits, and other plants/parts, and, at a concentration and viscosity determined by the needs of my formulas. Here you see substances in lab dishes used for evaporation, a simple method, but not the best for every material. Sometimes a hand held vacuum pump or even more advanced equipment is needed (which I have), depending on innate water content of materials and desired outcome. I love following the changes in color, density, aroma and even the patterns formed during evaporation. My former Mr., not current one, used to call me a “ mad scientist” long before I ever began Tender Flower. He was right! 😉 #biodynamicskincare#aromatics#botanicalperfumer#artisanskincare#indieperfumer#jevaisaupif #slowbeauty#smellthis#plantartist#madscientist .
    Unusual materials extractions feature in every Tender Flower scent & skin product. For me it’s one of the most absorbing aspects of the work. It’s the only way to get an extraction of wool, soil, unusual fruits, and other plants/parts, and, at a concentration and viscosity determined by the needs of my formulas. Here you see substances in lab dishes used for evaporation, a simple method, but not the best for every material. Sometimes a hand held vacuum pump or even more advanced equipment is needed (which I have), depending on innate water content of materials and desired outcome. I love following the changes in color, density, aroma and even the patterns formed during evaporation. My former Mr., not current one, used to call me a “ mad scientist” long before I ever began Tender Flower. He was right! 😉 #biodynamicskincare#aromatics#botanicalperfumer#artisanskincare#indieperfumer#jevaisaupif #slowbeauty#smellthis#plantartist#madscientist .
    A few weeks ago I asked in Stories if people liked seeing the gardens. The answer: a resounding yes! Unless we get rain, though, and sufficient amount of it, very soon, garden photos are going to be scarce. We are having a drought, on top of not having recovered from last year’s summer & winter drought, right through March, plus early, extra intense sun and temperatures. Yes, Biodynamic agriculture increases resilience, vitality, and health, but it doesn’t mean problem free! The outer world does impact. The production garden (not pictured) has been hit hard in unfenced sections. Deer and rabbits have been eating up plants that were just beginning to bloom.. removing visual beauty and, pollinator food sources from the farmscape…because of diminished wild food sources in the parched outer landscape. The prunella patch, a vital ingredient in one product, was demolished; a large bed of plants I distill can’t be reached with a water hose. Without rain, they’re floundering. Just a few examples. Brands who don’t grow their own plants are protected from carrying these realities and burdens. (At least for awhile.) When brands call farms they source from, “our farms”, it helps feed the consumer illusion that everything is available 24/7 and farming is all abundance and idyllic. Posing for photos in rows of flowers with baskets playing “farmer” is the real imposter syndrome. Farming is not “ownership”, whether pretending or really doing it. It’s insulting to people who carry part of the earth’s travails with them EVERY day of their lives, out of necessity that is at the same time an often hard choice of love. We cannot escape interdependence, a good thing to think on when the false identity/pride of nationalism and its destructive economic/social/political consequences becomes ever more a divisive agent. Rain will come again, I’ll grow the self-heal in a fenced area; the shiso closer to the water source. See? Ultimately we can’t avoid cultivating the wild. #biodynamicfarm #wholeplantskincare#biodynamicskincare#naturelove#greenbeauty#earthsteward#voiceofnature #interdependenceday#interdependence#biodynamicfarming#farmtoface
    A few weeks ago I asked in Stories if people liked seeing the gardens. The answer: a resounding yes! Unless we get rain, though, and sufficient amount of it, very soon, garden photos are going to be scarce. We are having a drought, on top of not having recovered from last year’s summer & winter drought, right through March, plus early, extra intense sun and temperatures. Yes, Biodynamic agriculture increases resilience, vitality, and health, but it doesn’t mean problem free! The outer world does impact. The production garden (not pictured) has been hit hard in unfenced sections. Deer and rabbits have been eating up plants that were just beginning to bloom.. removing visual beauty and, pollinator food sources from the farmscape…because of diminished wild food sources in the parched outer landscape. The prunella patch, a vital ingredient in one product, was demolished; a large bed of plants I distill can’t be reached with a water hose. Without rain, they’re floundering. Just a few examples. Brands who don’t grow their own plants are protected from carrying these realities and burdens. (At least for awhile.) When brands call farms they source from, “our farms”, it helps feed the consumer illusion that everything is available 24/7 and farming is all abundance and idyllic. Posing for photos in rows of flowers with baskets playing “farmer” is the real imposter syndrome. Farming is not “ownership”, whether pretending or really doing it. It’s insulting to people who carry part of the earth’s travails with them EVERY day of their lives, out of necessity that is at the same time an often hard choice of love. We cannot escape interdependence, a good thing to think on when the false identity/pride of nationalism and its destructive economic/social/political consequences becomes ever more a divisive agent. Rain will come again, I’ll grow the self-heal in a fenced area; the shiso closer to the water source. See? Ultimately we can’t avoid cultivating the wild. #biodynamicfarm #wholeplantskincare#biodynamicskincare#naturelove#greenbeauty#earthsteward#voiceofnature #interdependenceday#interdependence#biodynamicfarming#farmtoface
    An array of hydrosols, all from plants grown on the TF Biodynamic farm, carefully harvested and placed immediately in the still. What else is in them besides plants fully charged with medicine, connected to the rhythms of stars and planets? Oh, birdsong, butterfly flutters, a bee’s kiss, reverent heart & hands, the breath of a fragrant breeze. I keep watch over the fractions, drawing of samples to smell, which tells me one thing, & taste, which tells me another, about the constituents and forces involved in the “plant water”, and cut the distillation when it achieves the profile I want. No overdistilling for quantity, no what I call “ bad plant breath “ in the hydrosols. Hydrosols, it’s worth mentioning again, are a non negotiable step before applying an anhydrous balm or serum, and it doesn’t hurt to use them with a cream, either. But they have other uses! Spritzing a cake out of the oven with rose, to impart a delicate nuance. Spraying your hair to fluff and gently scent it, or before bed to sleep in a soft cloud of subtle fragrance. Pillowcases can be sprayed, too, to aid sleep. Special forces of the plant come forward in hydrosols, and misting with them shifts your own force field! Right now we’re in a nearly unbearable blanket of heat & atmospheric compression. Frequent spritzes in my un-airconditioned abode, and to cool down at night are helping me keep my sanity. One thing that’s not true, something often claimed, is attribution of compounds found in herbal extraction, to hydrosols. Nope, hydrosols have very different properties. They can only be assessed by a meticulous assay, and, what they actually do for you. Psst: the shop update is open to the public beginning tomorrow, the Solstice, at noon ET, until Sunday. Special products only for the TF community are passcoded, but there are other perfumes, skincare & hydrosols, if you’ve been wanting to try anything and see if you resonate with my plant language. Happy Solstice! #biodynamicskincare#plantmagic#biodynamicfarm#artisandistiller#botanicalperfume#radiantskin#hydrosols#wholeplantskincare#indieperfumer#plantwhisperer#botanicalsrtist#olfactoryart
    An array of hydrosols, all from plants grown on the TF Biodynamic farm, carefully harvested and placed immediately in the still. What else is in them besides plants fully charged with medicine, connected to the rhythms of stars and planets? Oh, birdsong, butterfly flutters, a bee’s kiss, reverent heart & hands, the breath of a fragrant breeze. I keep watch over the fractions, drawing of samples to smell, which tells me one thing, & taste, which tells me another, about the constituents and forces involved in the “plant water”, and cut the distillation when it achieves the profile I want. No overdistilling for quantity, no what I call “ bad plant breath “ in the hydrosols. Hydrosols, it’s worth mentioning again, are a non negotiable step before applying an anhydrous balm or serum, and it doesn’t hurt to use them with a cream, either. But they have other uses! Spritzing a cake out of the oven with rose, to impart a delicate nuance. Spraying your hair to fluff and gently scent it, or before bed to sleep in a soft cloud of subtle fragrance. Pillowcases can be sprayed, too, to aid sleep. Special forces of the plant come forward in hydrosols, and misting with them shifts your own force field! Right now we’re in a nearly unbearable blanket of heat & atmospheric compression. Frequent spritzes in my un-airconditioned abode, and to cool down at night are helping me keep my sanity. One thing that’s not true, something often claimed, is attribution of compounds found in herbal extraction, to hydrosols. Nope, hydrosols have very different properties. They can only be assessed by a meticulous assay, and, what they actually do for you. Psst: the shop update is open to the public beginning tomorrow, the Solstice, at noon ET, until Sunday. Special products only for the TF community are passcoded, but there are other perfumes, skincare & hydrosols, if you’ve been wanting to try anything and see if you resonate with my plant language. Happy Solstice! #biodynamicskincare#plantmagic#biodynamicfarm#artisandistiller#botanicalperfume#radiantskin#hydrosols#wholeplantskincare#indieperfumer#plantwhisperer#botanicalsrtist#olfactoryart
    Rose season is over, except for the teas, and rugosas that bloom intermittently all summer. Here are a few more glimpses. The second photo is my favorite gallica, gerianol rich, but with notes of incense & raspberry, too. Feeling sparse for words, perhaps more reticent having just crossed another solar round threshold; perhaps from intensely feeling the dichotomy between the love and beauty in my immediate environment and the strong dose of confusion, cruelty, apathy and vacancy of humanity at work in the world. “My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.” Dylan Thomas #roses#roseseason#fragrantpath#aromaticlife#greenbeauty#slowscent#jevaisaupif#olfactoryart#botanicalperfume#artisandistiller#biodynamicskincarenow
    Rose season is over, except for the teas, and rugosas that bloom intermittently all summer. Here are a few more glimpses. The second photo is my favorite gallica, gerianol rich, but with notes of incense & raspberry, too. Feeling sparse for words, perhaps more reticent having just crossed another solar round threshold; perhaps from intensely feeling the dichotomy between the love and beauty in my immediate environment and the strong dose of confusion, cruelty, apathy and vacancy of humanity at work in the world. “My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.” Dylan Thomas #roses#roseseason#fragrantpath#aromaticlife#greenbeauty#slowscent#jevaisaupif#olfactoryart#botanicalperfume#artisandistiller#biodynamicskincarenow
    An exceptionally early and long rose season.. the kinds of roses suitable for distillation & other extraction methods.. has kept me practically glued to the still for a month. Not quite done yet, there’s still a trickle of heaven speaking rose language in the gardens. And I planted so many more roses this past month. Meanwhile, the hydrosols I have for you next update! Are you dreaming of roses on your lovely face? #roses#hydrosol#artisandistiller#biodynamicroses#biodynamicskincare#greenbeauty#rosewater#biodynamicfarm#radiantskin#flowerlove#plantmagic#fragrantpath#aromaticplants #rosemedicine#skinmedicine#wholeplantskincare
    An exceptionally early and long rose season.. the kinds of roses suitable for distillation & other extraction methods.. has kept me practically glued to the still for a month. Not quite done yet, there’s still a trickle of heaven speaking rose language in the gardens. And I planted so many more roses this past month. Meanwhile, the hydrosols I have for you next update! Are you dreaming of roses on your lovely face? #roses#hydrosol#artisandistiller#biodynamicroses#biodynamicskincare#greenbeauty#rosewater#biodynamicfarm#radiantskin#flowerlove#plantmagic#fragrantpath#aromaticplants #rosemedicine#skinmedicine#wholeplantskincare