Cedar wood essential oil is woodsy, spicy and warm. Cedar trees in the US are native to the south. Cedar trees have significant religious implications from Christianity to Buddhism to the mummification properties of the ancient Egyptians. The cedars of Lebanon,...
It takes 8,000,000 handpicked jasmine flowers to produce 2 pounds of oil. There are over 200 species of jasmine and I have been seduced by this intoxicating aroma around the globe from Europe, Africa, India, Bali, Thailand, Latin America etc. …. and at home....
My backyard is a bevy of flying architects, nuthatch, cardinals, brown thrashers, titmouse, and Carolina wrens are building in every birdhouse, gardenia bush, and holly. The thrashers outside my bedroom winter that hatched last week are already gone. Peonies, roses,...