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Have you ever had your Aura photographed?

Have you ever had your Aura photographed? That's mine above. I was attending a Body & Soul Healing fair at the Raddison. I was up all night getting my stand ready and I was really tired. There was a quiet period during the day's events and I decided to have my aura photographed to pass the time. I was in the queue waiting my turn. The woman in front of me was holding a bunch of application forms in her hand. She told me she was addicted to study and was a teacher by profession. Her aura photograph was yellow. Yellow auras are usually associated with teaching and studying. So it appeared the aura photographs were maybe accurate. I was half afraid that my aura was going to be muddy and tired looking because that is how I felt.

When I saw my photograph I asked the woman taking the pictures why my aura had hardly any colors. She looked sort of stunned when she saw the photograph and she asked me quietly if I ever had a near death experience. I laughed and said "oh yes lots of them". Then she looked at me very seriously and told me that I was an Earth Angel. I laughed again. She told me that my aura was almost pure white, with a touch of violet and lavender. She had never seen anything like it.
Underneath the photo was written: Transcendent, Enlightened, Spiritual and Energy Sensitive.

She gave me a print out to go with my photograph.
This is what it said:
White contains all the colors in perfect harmony and balance. It shows a transcendental, spiritual and higher dimensional existence. White indicates an enlightened state connected with divine energy. Spiritually motivated, the ability to be open and receptive to the divine, or spiritual world. Can merge with ALL THAT IS. Probably unconcerned with worldly matters or ambition. Inner illumination, cosmic wisdom characterize the white energy. Young children, energy workers, and people who meditate intensely often will show bright white in their auras. Generally, white does not often appear in the auras of adults.
Violet around your head means that your capacity for intuitive perception is extremely high. You are very creative and your sensitivity enhances your subtle and artistic imagination. You have the ability to channel divine energy.
Lavender on your right shows that you have great spiritual and creative insight and your energy has a healing effect on others. Many can sense the power emanating from you.
White in the heart area means that you have accumulated incredible energy. It can also mean that you have opened up your heart too widely and therefore need to protect yourself from the demands of others. If white is harmonious with the Aura then there is great spiritual knowledge in your heart.

I went home after having my Aura photograph taken and I Googled what an Earth Angel is.
Here is what I found: Earth Angels 

OK so I'm transcendental. I've been called worse.

Anti-perfume trails and Molecules 01

 

I received a gift yesterday that blew me away totally. A Bottle of Molecules 01 : I have never smelled anything like this. EVER! My first impression was cedarwood. A beautiful cedarwood too, it reminded me of a Lebanese cedarwood perfumery essence that I have. It's dark, deep and incredibly velvety. But then I realised that I wasn't smelling a perfume per se, because normally cedarwood is a middle to base note and doesn't come through immediately after applying a perfume and more importantly, at that moment when I expected to smell a different note, what I was smelling simply wasn't there anymore. It did a vanishing act. I became rather perplexed and very curious. Twenty minutes later I felt as though I was sitting in a cedarwood forest on a warm sunny day. Wow! The perfume seemed to be all around me rather than on me.

When I smelled my skin I had to bury my nose before I got the delicious warm clean scent that reminded me of rain on skin. How incredibly sexy!
This morning I wore it to the shops. I was standing at the checkout when the woman mentioned an amazing perfume she was smelling and she asked was it me. I told her the name and she said she was going to ask her husband to buy it for her for Christmas. I told her that Kate Moss, Gwen Stefani and Ellie Goulding deem it their love potion and that it consists of just one ingredient, an aroma molecule so complex that the body can only metabolize it very slowly so that it seems to vanish and then re-appear hours later. I told her that it is supposed to have a pheromonal like effect on men if you are a woman and on women if you are a man. She told me to turn around, there were five men standing in the queue behind me...even though the other checkout on the other side of the shop was obviously free!!!
She picked up a pen and paper...'what's it called again?'. As I was leaving I noticed that she was still smelling the air with her eyes closed. "I'll want to be smelling that all day" she said.

This Incense Stuff Rocks - and a giveaway

Right at this moment I am sitting here smelling for the first time, what juniper berries are like if burned alone. Admittedly I have owned an automatic incense burner for over a year I haven't experimented all that much until recently. Burning Kyphi and Jaguars Breath, and heating rose and jasmine wax mostly. I told myself the other day that I was going to learn more about making incense.

I just this minute put some elemi resin on a clean burner. Nice.
I forgot to say that the juniper berries smelled like warm cherry spices at first and then a rich resinous ripe fruit, very dark, sultry actually.
The sandalwood, a little piece I received from Yuko is luxurious smelling, a light and clean wood, an absolute pleasure fume.
The elemi resin is surprisingly rich, maybe the burner was a little hot for the elemi, I expected it to be fresher, cleaner. So I turn it down. When I get over to where I was sitting I get the whiff of a perfume, I know that it is the outer aura of the incense, if there is such a thing. Upon leaving the room and coming back in I get all these bright and even floral notes that I couldn't detect before.

Here is the giveaway: with the first ten incense burners sold from the new batch coming in tomorrow you get 12 packets of 5g of various incense material from the White Witch online store.
See the photo above.

The kit contains:

White Sandalwood - Smells soft, sweet, woody base note with a delicate, spicy, oriental undertone.
Sandalwood is relaxing, cleansing/purifying, strengthening.
Aids with sleep, meditation, sensuous, love, healing, spirituality, protection, peace.
Opoponax Resin - Blessing, purification, spirituality, peace.
Elemi Resin  - Love, cleansing, purification, healing.
Orris Root - has a way of softening the scents and it also fixes the incense blend. Used in love or divination rituals.
Myrrh - Burned for protection, healing, spirituality. Myrrh was burned at Ra at noon in ancient temples of Egypt. As an incense myrrh purifies, lifts vibrations and creates peace. It is usually burned with other materials to enhance them, for example frankincense. Myrrh aids in meditation.
Frankincense - When burned , frankincense releases powerful vibrations which uplift and clear. Good in meditation blends.
Mace - Is ruled by mercury and is good to use in prosperity blends. It is also said to enhance psychic powers.
Benzoin - Burned for purification and prosperity.
Juniper Berries - Protection, clearing negativity, raising vibrations.
Dragon's Blood - Protection, divination, prosperity.
Charred Styrax - Love, protection, purification, spirituality.
French Lavender - Love, cleansing.

White Witch Roísin

Watch out for the new floral solid perfume from White Witch for release this winter. 

Roísin and Jasmine & Chocolate perfumes are also now available in this stunning hand turned yew box.

Natural Beauty & Perfume Tips for the summer

If you like to make your own natural beauty products at home I can give you a few really nice tips to get you started. Have you ever heard of White Clay? Well it's a refined mineral clay that comes from the earth and it makes a fantastic base for face masks. You skin might be too oily, too dry or a bit blotchy and tired looking but either way a gentle clay mask is a great place to begin. Use White or Rhassoul clay and then you won't over dry your skin.
You can add some interesting things to the clay base such as Rose, and other herbal powders. The rose powder will have a cooling and rejuvenating effect on all skin types. You can even add honey, in fresh or powdered form.
Get your ingredients together in a small non metal bowl. Tie your hair back out of your face. Mix the ingredients you have chosen with a small amount of warm water to make a paste and apply it to the face, starting with the neck and working right over all areas of the face. Don't go too close to the eyes but if you keep your ingredients really simple by using just clay and honey you will be safe to go quite close to the delicate eye area without having any adverse reactions.
Relax and allow to dry for as long as possible. The longer you leave this mask on  the greater the firming and smoothing effects will be. Remove the mask carefully with a warm wet flannel and rinse in warm water. Pat the skin dry with a soft towel and spritz the skin with some a strong white tea infusion. After the face mask apply a small amount of virgin coconut oil.

To perfume and protect your hair from dry summer frizziness, mix a 1/4 of a teaspoon of floral concretes or essential oil with 30mls of virgin coconut oil. Apply a small amount to the hair everyday starting with the ends. Rose and jasmine make a very nice floral summer hair perfume.

Working on a violet composition

There is something about violets. The little purple gems that to me represent spring. It is difficult to create a natural violet perfume composition because there is no actual violet flower absolute. There is a violet leaf absolute but it's green and dark and not a sweet delicate floral the way violets are.
So...what to do?
I am getting somewhere.
First of all what is the profile of the perfume of violets? The notes of the flower are tender and sweet, with the complexity of the exotics like jasmine or ylang ylang. The perfume of a violet flower sort of draws you in in a beguiling way and before you know it it's imprinted on your memory never to be forgotten.
As I say I am really getting somewhere.
As usual getting the top notes stumped me. The question was how do I make something delicate and tender come out on top in a way that will lure a person in.
Notes of carnation absolute, violet leaf and orris butter are key elements in the composition, using rose, jasmine and ylang ylang to provide the necessary floral aspects. Carefully chosen base notes allow the alluring soft tenderness of violets to predominate.
I will keep you posted but it looks really promising.  I am also working in alcohol and find it amazing.