Ron Obadia and Nadine Artemis
What happens when the former tour yoga instructor for Bare Naked Ladies and one of the most fragrant of Canadian flower children meet? The world becomes full of Living Libations. Ron Obadia and Nadine Artemis are on a mission of joy, and you are about to be enlisted (you're in good company, including Alanis Morrisette.) Nadine has assembled one of the most impressive lines of all natural products I have come across. Their work together provides yogic balance between utilitarian necessity and olfactory gluttony under the name Living Libations.
Fillipo Arena
There is an imaginary line where botanical perfume and aromatherapy are supposedly severed one being somehow “lesser” and the other high art. I will offer one is used medicinally while the other adornment. I have the feeling Living Libations believes the coat you wear for warmth in winter can be functional high art. I stand corrected.
Enjoying the colorful visuals and numerous offerings on their website, it's hard to not feel as if you have already imbibed something as that sense of joy I am talking about starts to wash over you. They are hip, hippy and serious about the products they produce. Being Free Is Lots of Fun capsulizes this in both name and perfume. While freedom as concept is an ongoing definition, we all agree it is a state we all desire both in the outer and inner worlds. Politics aside, standing in nature- free from the onslaught of the modern world- we feel an inner spaciousness which bursts forth from a grapefruit and lemon enhanced linden.
Iris, Norse Goddess of the Rainbow
Aroma-therapeutically clearing both your mental and olfactory slates, the lofty citrus gives to iris, which bridges into the heart accord. A beautiful spring note named after the Goddess of the rainbow (it is a rainbow bridge which connects heaven and earth in Norse mythology), iris is powder, it is the puff and push into heart accord. Ylang ylang and jasmine wait for you on the other side of the iris bridge– the ultimate floral pot of gold. Indolic girls behaving in the charming way children do at tea parties, their best manners a part of the game. Each taking turn being heard and pouring from a kettle of a vanilla bean tea.
Flower Goddess by Karl Bang
Calming and universally appeasing, orris rooted vanilla is the base on which this exercise in the very serious work of child's play rests. An aroma which leads us to the freedom to relax, to enjoy- assured we are not “lesser” for claiming the joy of breathing, inhaling, imbibing the very libations of being alive. From Living Libations: “Let freedom reign! Unleash internal sunshine with every inhalation of this blooming botanical beauty. Fresh and floral with sunny citrus hues, Being Free Is Lots of Fun petal perfume invokes vibrant joy in everyone!”
Notes: Organic: linden, jasmine, ylang ylang, grapefruit, iris and vanilla.
–Einsof, Natural Perfume Editor
Disclosure: Sample from Living Libations
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