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Artisan Distilled Hydrosols and Natural Perfume About Me Dabney Rose 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 anyone using them. These energetics sing through the products, carrying the energy of alchemy that continues through the user.
Fragrance
has turned my head since I was a child.
I can still smell the sweet william and wild plum in our garden and
wood. I have been gathering and growing fragrant plants for decades
and it is a rare day, anytime of the year, that I don't have some
delicious to inhale. The main rose that I distill is an unknown centifolia variety I found outside of Asheville, 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 lemon blossom, 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. Now, 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. Color has been another lightning rod, consistently throughout my life and electrifies me in that way that fragrance does. I love the interplay of textures and color in working with plasters. Check out "a Dab of paint" for more in this direction.
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