The only perfume I will wear

The other day, a friend was saying how much they’ve turned off regular synthetic chemical ‘designer’ perfumes and they don’t wear them anymore — and they can’t even give them away to get rid of them, because that would mean someone else has to bathe in chemicals! More and more, I’m starting to agree (and I used to be a perfume fanatic): I’m looking at my boudoir table covered in glittering couture bottles and I’m thinking… I’d rather anoint myself every morning with something artisan, decadent, spiritual, higher vibrational and magical, that nobody else on earth owns except me. But what?

Fortunately, my friend Frances Tree provided the answer. Frances can talk to trees, herbs and flowers, has studied under Suzanne Catty and intuitively blends her own oils and sprays using an amethyst pendulum. She has already made me an oil for love healing (15 essential oils!), an anti-decongestant spray for my sick son, a bedtime slumber spray for my baby girl and a bug-repellant spray for my plants. Today I asked her to blend me a beautiful, luxurious oil that that I can use as my very own perfume, every day. I wanted fresh floral/citrus notes… she intuitively sensed that it needed lots of violet, which was bang-on (Violet is the secret name I’ve always called myself! Not so secret now, I guess…)    Violet is a very rare and expensive essential oil which makes it all the more special and sacred for me. Once Frances had finished my perfume blend, she gave me the following instructions: “Prior to use, you will need to ‘awaken’ your oil. Ground, centre and hold the oil between your hands. Let the oil speak to you. Holding this intention, shake the bottle briskly and tap the bottle with your fingernails seven times.”

More from Frances: “Essential oils are ‘living’ energetic beings of light, they are quite literally the concentrated ‘heart and soul’ essence of a plant. Respect their ancient knowledge and potent healing power. They have been gifted to you to help you on your spiritual journey.” Useful tip: “Light, heat and oxygen will degrade your oil. Keep away from devices like mobile phones. Store in a special box or bag. However placing your oil somewhere on occasion that it can connect to the sky / moon / stars and morning sun can be energetically powerful. If you’ve had your oil for some time or it has been exposed to phones etc, you can cleanse and charge it much like you would a crystal. Speak to it and ask what it needs.”

Frances and I walked around my bowery garden and talked about the fact that we have an on-site natural well spring. This is by far the best water to use when making flower essences — and doubly powerful when using the plants that grow around the spring itself. I spoke to her about flowers that grow abundantly like weeds on our property (forget-me-nots) and those I’ve had great trouble cultivating. She said the flowers that come to us in great volumes are the ones we spiritually ‘need’. Fascinating concept! Personally I’ve been obsessed this year with planting tall English cottage garden blooms such as foxgloves, hollyhocks, delphiniums and lupins… which apparently represent ambition and fruitfulness. I’ll be making my own flower essences soon… watch this space for a photo gallery of my efforts!

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