My First Love - The Sixth Anniversary of the Natural Perfumers Guild Blogging Event
Fan carved from sandalwood Santalum album - even the botanical name is beautiful and strong. If rose and jasmine are feminine, sandalwood is strongly, sexily, masculine. All male. And I fell hard for “him” from the first sniff. Here’s my decades-long love/lust story, and I’m sorry to say it might not have a happy ending. Sandalwood Mala bead necklace I didn’t get my first bottle of sandalwood oil until I was 18 or so. I already had some patchouli, as it was the scent of choice for hippies, and if I had some oils from the racks in hippie stores, they’re long forgotten, and I now know they were probably synthetic. One day I was helping someone unpack some imported goods in the back of the store, and some of the merchandise was from India. There were lovely colorful glass beads strung into necklaces that were woven from brass wire. Then I found a packet of scented wooden beads made into jewelry. I’ll always associate the glass gr...