Although flowers are fading and thinning perceptibly, some August images depict nature’s vivid life in summer’s last flaming colors. While strange for blossoming life to retreat so soon where I live, it emphasizes autumn’s mood of soul, a making way for Light to enter the heart as sunlight wanes, warm and kindle inner powers of life, all the months from now through the dark of winter. We cultivate the inner sun, now: there is our garden to bloom. The newsletter is going out sometime today, with more autumnal thoughts and news about the teeny, brief pre-order update. Thank you for being here with me, so many of you warm my heart, and I never forget how good it is. ❤️‍🔥 Donna #biodynamics#cycleoftheyear#autumnmood #biodynamicfarm#biodynamicskincare#wholeplantskincare #naturelove#greenbeauty#farmtoface#followthelight

As an independent perfumer, there is creative freedom to compose, without having to conform to ridiculous briefs or penurious budgets. If I have a perfume idea, and time, I can follow it… see.. smell, what happens. The result might be unusual, beautiful but not “ pretty”, and.. without wide appeal, such as this one, Autumn Clematis. This eponymous perfume captures both the scent of the flower, with its powdered linden, coumarin and amandine notes, and the lush landscape it grows wild in, here. There is no autumn clematis perfume material, the chord was constructed by patient tinkering over three years, by smelling live blooms and creating illusion. A faux oud accord, and several handmade tinctures of not-to-be-found-commercially aromatics give this fragrance a deep, lush wine-dark and spicy fullness. There is one last bottle: it sits in the fridge, smelling of September, all to itself, in secret. #botanicalperfume#growerperfumer#indieperfumer#smellthis#perfumery#naturalperfume#slowscent#greenbeauty#jevaisaupif#jolielaide#olfactoryart#experimentalart #tenderflowerperfume#aromatic#fragrance#scentartisan

A few scenes from the cutting flower garden.. just one of the twelve gardens going on here. The gardens appear to be shutting down early this year, due to the drought, but they are still gorgeous, I remind myself, as walk across hard, hard earth and witness the rivers dry up to puddles and the deer drinking the bird baths dry each night. Time to do some special remedial Biodynamic work, which always includes inner work! #biodynamics#biodynamicfarming#biodynamicskincare#naturelove#earthisspeakingareyoulistening#sacredearth#wholeplantskincare#botanicalperfume#beautypath#flowermedicine#elemental

Weather conditions-wise, been feeling a bit desert-y here, but the tuberoses love it! In Mesoamerica this asparagus family, agave sub- family beauty was named bone flower (omixochitl), after the polar goddesses of spring and flowers,(Xochiquetzal) and death (Mictecacihuatl), the Persephone/Demeter in European culture. The green asparagus & agave notes express in the wilting or decaying flowers. Upon opening though, strong wintergreen and vanilla mint TicTac notes present, and flood the entire garden space. As they age, there are powdery mature lily pollen facets. In the perfumery right now, a very concentrated enfleurage is underway, which becomes the basis for several TF perfumes. #enfleurage#botanicalperfume#slowscent#subtlearomatherapy#tuberose#tuberoseperfume#indieperfumer#greenbeauty#jevaisaupif#artisanperfume#makingperfume#perfumery#beautifulscent#flowermeditation#smellthis#olfactoryart

Today, to share with you pure vibrance of the Cosmos, as spoken through a plant, Wild Carrot. No other words.✨🤍✨ #biodynamicfarm#biodynamicskincare#hydrosol#wholeplantskincare#greenbeauty#wildbeauty#wildcarrot#botanicalperfume#indieperfumer#wildflowers#queenanneslace#radiantskin#plantlove#wildflora#naturelove

News on this last Sunday of July. But you need to read through, first ✨ One day, over a third of my life ago, I stood in a quiet area of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It was very early February. Something like a tone, but not audible, not physical at all, more of a feeling that is also a thought, “sounded”, as if from a non-spatial atmosphere. As it reverberated within me a thought arose… I’d just heard the first note of Spring. What a revelation this was, that the seasons actually began in the unseen worlds, before any material signs appeared. The revelation became a path of work with nature, the plants, the healing arts, deeply observing how the spiritual spoke through the physical phenomena of the yearly cycle of Earth. Is Nature just a backdrop for human activities? You might think & feel that way if you go along with the program. But if you didn’t, or didn’t want to, and learned how to observe, with all of your faculties; and understood certain truths science or naturalism can’t offer you, Nature and its wisdom becomes alive in you, and forms a foundation of access to the Cosmos. There’s so much more to all of this than I can share here, more than most could even imagine is possible through immersion in the yearly round. And entering this practice is so crucial for navigating these novel times we live in, also for personal inner & physical strengthening. On August 13th, 3:00 p.m. ET, I’ll be doing a live, intensive class with explorations and exercises and thoughts you may have never heard before. @gaua_project has kindly agreed to offer the tech support/hosting for this class on Zoom. Look in my stories today for the sign up link, and a bit more information. #cycleoftheyear#goetheanscience#biodynamics#natureartistry#naturelove#sensesasdoorways#spiritinnature#elementals#ethericworld

Potent jasmine dreams…. they’ve been under enfleurage with a fragrant companion since springtime. I’ll later take the corps, a saturated raw scent material and turn it into a perfume, with some thoughtful doses of other aromatic extractions. People are catching on to one of my favorite ways to wear the creamy enfleurage perfumes: to bed. Not to be alluring 😂, but as sweet dreams /good sleep medicine! Special newsletter going out this week with something different in the offing! To be revealed in a post here next week. #botanicalperfume#enfleurage#jasmineperfume#artisanperfumer#jevaisaupif#greenbeauty#smellthis#olfactoryart#olfactoryartist#subtlearomatherapy#naturalperfume

Actual rose time is past ( May/June), but all the flowers live on in the hydrosols, skincare & perfumes. The June newsletter, with its in-depth peek at TF rose harvest, with some additions, has been posted on the blog. Even if you read the newsletter, I hope you’ll read the updated writing. It’s the beginning of a series depicting what it’s like to be personally farming all the way through to creating fine skin & scent products, a rarity, if you really look into the botanical beauty industry with deep seeing eyes. Today’s the final day of the summer open shop, which happens only 3-4 x per year, leaving the time needed to tend the land & plants and plant extractions with the Biodynamic methods. This takes much solitary time and thoughtfulness, but also each year brings me ever further into an expanded, detailed awareness of the rhythms both terrestrial and celestial. Something more on that very soon, newsletter readers find out first. #biodynamicskincare #biodynamic#biodynamicfarm#seedtobottle#wholeplantskincare#botanicalperfumer#naturalperfume#artisanskincare#artisandistiller#radiantskincare#greenbeauty#botanicalbeauty#farmtoface#organicskincare

Inspired by a warm summer day and the scents of chamomile, rose, immortelle and mixed golden grasses, sparkling in the sun, A Meadow is our new perfume release. As with every Tender Flower perfume, made entirely with natural, botanical ingredients, yet with structure and presence. #jevaisaupif#botanicalperfume#smellthis#summerscent#artisanperfume#indieperfumer#greenbeauty#olfactoryart#tenderflowerperfume#naturalfragrance#després