An archaeologist’s journey into natural perfume, traditional attars, and the art of aromatic storytelling At Magic North Star, fragrance is more than perfume. It is history, memory, and atmosphere captured through natural aromatics and traditional attar blending. This is the story of how my own journey with scent began, and why I returned to the…
A LOT of my posts focus on ways that we can feel better each day. I try to keep them simple and easy and most often focused on how important it is to monitor our energy. I want people to learn to regulate their own energy so that they aren’t relying on gadgets and gizmos…
Snow changes everything in a way that feels almost comforting. The world goes quiet, sounds soften. The usual sharp edges of a neighbourhood blur into something gentler. Even light behaves differently, bouncing off white ground and turning ordinary streets into a pale, glowing scenes of tranquility and then reality kicks in. The chaos of getting…
Flowers have a quiet way of getting through to us. They bring the outside in. A small piece of nature on your table, your windowsill, your kitchen counter. In the middle of everyday life, flowers remind us that the world still makes beauty for no reason other than to exist. Colour, shape, scent, the soft…
Primary Colour Therapy: A Practical Way to Bring Calm Into Your Week Colour affects us whether we pay attention to it or not. We register it through the nervous system first and the mind second. That is why a room can feel soothing or agitating before you can explain why. Colour therapy can get very…
Conserving Your Energy and Finding Balance During Stressful Times When life becomes demanding, uncertain, or emotionally heavy, the instinct is often to push harder. To stay alert. To stay productive. To stay available. But prolonged stress does not reward endurance in the way we are often taught to believe. Instead, it slowly erodes physical energy,…