Journal

Picture this: You splurged on a natural essential oil reed fragrance diffuser over the weekend and on Monday you come home from work and the scent is much stronger than you expected. Upon entering, you can hear your dog barking and whimpering in pain. While you were at work, your dog has knocked the diffuser over onto the floor, and rolled around in the oil, and is covered in severe burns all over it’s skin. You carry it into the bathtub and try to wash off the oil only to have the burns get worse, and you despair as your...

Rosewater is actually the byproduct of steam distilling rose petals into essential oil or the highest grade of distillation: absolute.  Indian Damask Rosewater is steam distilled hydrosol water made from Rosa Damascena rose petals.  Rosa Damascena or Rose Damask has a bright heirloom rose smell.  The kind of smell until recently seemed to have been bred out of commercially available roses.  I come across several 50-60 year old heirloom rose bushes on my usual walking route and I always stop and smell the sublime berry-like scent when one is in bloom. As opposed to the Bulgarian rosewater that I sell,...