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Artisan Distilled Hydrosols and Natural Perfume about me
Sweet Water Distillery
Hydrosols are an artistic expression. I am very intimately and
consciously living it every step of the process. From growing, and
harvesting, through distilling, packaging and shipping, my hands and
heart are in the transformation of aromatic plants for the upliftment
and benefit of everyone using them. These energetics sing through
the products, carrying the energy of alchemy that continues through
the user.
Somewhere around the age of eleven I made a batch of incense by infusing plum blossoms in alcohol, and then soaking punk sticks in the scented alcohol. In my early twenties I started growing herbs because they had scent. Soon after, I discovered the world of Essential Oils. I started distilling flowers in 1987, (my daughter Rose Aimée -'beloved rose'- was two) and still do, on occasion, use the boiling flask and condensing tube my father jump-started me with. My repertoire of plants has grown to over 40 varieties of flowers, leaves, seeds, resins and roots. Through this 'time and space' I have felt the alchemical process play its magic with me as well as with the flowers and plants. Nothing makes my soul sing as when I am distilling.... The main rose that I distill is an unknown centifolia variety I found growing along the roadside in Woodfin, NC back in 1986. I have carried this rose back and forth across the country twice!
I distill small batches of hydrosols from organically tended plants in my own garden and collected from the wild. Keeping small enables me to harvest these friends at optimum moments of their seasonal and diurnal cycle. This also allows me to include more unusual players such as witch hazel flowers, sweet violet and evening primrose. I use them everyday as face sprays, for hormone balancing, immune support and in cooking.
I have played with scent and incorporated it into my life in many ways, always insisting on the highest quality materials I can find. As well as blending facial mists from my hydrosols, I craft perfumes which smell like individual bits of heaven while making us feel more whole.
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