The white flower season begins here in the garden of pure fumes with gardenia, then gradually overlaps with jasmine sambac which overlap...

Two days ago it was warm and I was harvesting jasmine flowers for the ongoing enfleurage. Monday night the weather suddenly changed – as...

The jasmine tincture process is still going. Normally the cycle ends at some point in November, but it is dependent on the weather. Sin...

The article I wrote for the NAHA (National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy) journal is live, check it out here . In the meant...

Although the jasmine blooms seemed to get to a slow start this year they sure have been producing dynamically lately! Every evenin...

I'm sort of taking the day off, it's Independence Day here in the US after all, not that a major holiday would influence a perpe...

The white flower season has arrived! It appeared like a rough start for the Jasmine sambacs but not for the Gardenias. Here at the house...

Fleurish, a play on the french word fleur for flower and flourish a design embellishment used in calligraphy, is a luxurious jasmine s...

In the midst of herding all the elements for the Fan Funding Event together, the extravagant grand finale jasmine blooming cycle I came...

While most places in the northern hemisphere have been experiencing some form of Autumn weather and signs of the impending season, we con...

The night and day of equal length beckons us in the Northern hemisphere to prepare for the shadow, the season of the dark and cooler tem...

Officially Summer is over, although one would never guess by the warm weather we've been having here. For me, it "feels" d...

The daily gathering of little white florets from for the Jasmine sambac tincture continues. Although there was a bit of a dry spell of b...

In the morning after I harvest the jasmine blossoms my hands smell spectacular for a few hours. Thus my scent of the day (SOTD) has been ...

Happy Solstice from the Santa Monica Mountains to each of you. The potted jasmine sambacs in my garden started their blooming cycle in A...