Inspiration
Forest Spirit perfume is a scent-song to the forest where I live most of the year. The perfume’s fragrance is based around an extraction I make, from mature Balsam Fir trees, that are blown down during the high winds of autumn. At that time of year, the crowns of the Balsam Fir trees are loaded with fragrance. The amount of rich, warm and fruity resin inside the trees’ needles has more than doubled in preparation for winter. Second, the trees’ needles are dripping with the sparkling, green and citrus smelling resin that sweated from the cones during the summer heat. Finally, the young buds, at the tips of the branches, are covered with a sweet, balsamic resin that protects the young bud tissue over the winter.
I find these blown down trees during my forest wanderings. To their complex, coniferous-scent, I add aromas of the humus and mosses of the forest under-story to create a complete sense of place. A forest cathedral that is my physical and spiritual home. The first nations people of the Northern Woodlands, say that the Balsam Fir trees, with the upright aspect to their branches, and emotionally uplifting fragrances, continually prayer for the world.


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