This month's essence
Bottling October and November
Hello friends and welcome back to the still room where two vials have just been added to the shelf.
Four weeks away in Tennessee and North Carolina interrupted my usual pattern of bottling the essence of each month, so I’m only just adding October’s scent now. But what a wonderful, and much-needed interruption it was.
Immersed in music and mountains, one spell was broken, and another was cast.
October’s bottle is therefore particularly special.
But I have a deep love for November (true November, unadulterated by Christmas) and so this month’s scent is also one to cherish, combining, as it does, not just the present, but the means to unlock happy memories of Novembers past.
Here’s what I’ve bottled for these magical autumn months:
October
Top notes: Sweet cinnamon aroma of pumpkin pie
Mid notes: Clean scents of market fresh greens, peppers, apples and cucumber
Base notes: freshly brewed coffee, bourbon, woodsmoke and forest paths
November
Top notes: Honey fragrance of Actea Simplex blooms, providing late forage for the bees
Mid notes: Fresh woodiness of kiln dried logs stacked in the logstore
Base notes: Moss, damp leaves, turmeric, and the mushroomy smell of the woodland floor
I wonder what scents have made up your autumn this year?
Notes:
If you read this post from July and this one from August, you will know that at each new moon I “bottle” the scents of the month, inspired by a beautiful writing prompt from the author Beth Kempton.