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February 2010 Updates
Dear Friends,
Kind greetings!
Suzanne and I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of February. All is well here in the Pacific Northwest where we are enjoying a mild winter season with most days in the upper 40's and lower 50's.
Plenty of snow is falling just to the south of us in the Olympic Mountains but here along the coast, due to the El Nino effect, temperatures are mild. The thousands of bulbs we planted in the Fall are thrusting through the earth amidst the heathers, heaths, lavenders, nandinas, maples, peonies, witch hazels and many types of conifers which populate our small garden. Already the tiny fragrant snowdrops are in bloom, soon to be followed by winter aconite, Siberian scilla, anenome and narcissus. We love watching all the plants grow and fill our surroundings with their sweet beauty.
We Will Be Away from February 7th-11th
If you need anything before we leave be sure to have your order to us by February 5th.
New Arrivals in January
Essential Oils
Peru Balsam /Myrxylom peruferum/South America wild harvest
Mondarda(Bee Balm)/Mondarda fistulosa/USA
Cypress, Blue/Callitropis intropica/ Australia/wild harvest
Sandalwood, select/Santlum spicatum/Australia wild harvest
Artemisia annua/India/wild harvest
Juniper Berry/Juniperus communis/Himalayas, India wild harvest
Sage Clary/Salvia sclarea/Himalayas,India/organic
Basil, Holy/Ocimum sanctum/South India/nonsprayed
Absolutes
Allspice Berry/Pimenta racemosa/Jamaica
Rose de Mai Absolute/Rosa centifolia/France
Cocoa Absolute/South America
Specials for February
The specials for February will be announced in the mid-February Newsletter which is now devoted exclusively to announcing the specials of the month.
White Lotus Aromatics Blog
In the beginning of January I introduced two new sections to the Blog. The first is Fragrance in Literature featuring a specific author and the second is Fragrance in Travel Literature, featuring a specific country.
There is a whole universe of wonderful insights that come from researching the way in which words such as smell, odor, fragrance, incense, perfume and scent appear in different types of literature. One can derive great inspiration from it. When one studies the writings of the various authors who had a good faculty of olfactory perception, one gets glimpses into realms of beauty and charm that they describe. Even though they each use the language of scent in very specific ways, one becomes aware that they are talking about a very universal experience which underlies the words which they use. Often, via the olfactory sense, they describe an experience which only comes when the wall between the perceiver and the perceived evaporates and the one in the midst of that experience steps into a timeless realm of beauty, even if it be for a brief period of time. The very same thing can be noticed about those writers traveling through new and enchanting landscapes as is depicted in the Fragrance in Travel Literature series. In most cases they have left their own countries and are journeying through new places which they have not seen before. The plants of those countries and the customs of the people of those special places with regards to the use of aromatics awakens a sense of wonder and mystery in their heart which directly connects them with the world in which they are moving.
What makes all this immensely meaningful for us who may never have known these people or visited the places they are describing is that we often have access to the essential oils, absolutes, attars and co2 extracts derived from the same plants which have the odors via which they had glimpses of a refined world of beauty which moves the heart in such a profound way. By smelling those precious essences we can share in these exquisite experiences as well.
Here are the blogs that appeared in January- You can view them at:
White Lotus Aromatics Blog
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Algeria
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-algeria.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Thailand/Siam
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Persia/Iran
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-persiairan.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Tibet
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-tibet.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Turkey/Ottoman Empire
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-turkey.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Austria
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-austria.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Wales
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-wales.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Scotland
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-scotland.html
Fragrance in Travel Literature-Ireland
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-travel-literature-ireland.html
Fragrance in Literature-Walter Prichard Eaton
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-walter-prichard.html
Fragrance in Literature-Maria Thompson Davies
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-maria-thompson.html
Fragrance in Literature-George Eyre-Todd
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-george-eyre.html
Fragrance in Literature-Hans Christian Andersen
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-hans-christian.html
Fragrance in Literature-Hellen Keller
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-14-helen-keller.html
Fragrance in Literature-Mary Russel Mittford
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-12-mary-russell.html
Fragrance in Literature-Sir Edwin Arnold
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-12-sir-edwin.html
Fragrance in Literature-E. J. Banfield
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-11-e-j-banfield.html
Fragrance in Literature-Zane Grey
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-10-zane-grey.html
Fragrance in Literature-Frances Hodgson Burnett
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-9-frances.html
Fragrance in Literature-John Muir
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-9-frances.html
Fragrance in Literature-Elizabeth Van Arnim
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-literature-7-elizabeth-van.html
Fragrance in Literature-Kenneth Grahame
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-6-kenneth.html
Fragrance in Literature-Willa Cather
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-5-willa-cather.html
Fragrance in Literature-Lafcadio Hearn
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-4-lafcadio.html
Fragrance in Literature-Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-2-nathaniel.html
Fragrance in Literature-Sarah Orne Jewett
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-3-sarah-orne.html
Fragrance in Literature-Celia Thaxter
http://blog.whitelotusaromatics.com/2010/01/fragrance-in-literature-1-celia-thaxter.html