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Daily staples, mushrooms and adaptogens, pantry foods and teas, with the aromatherapy and arcana shelves.

Essential Oils
Ruh Khus
Ruh Khus, the green vetiver: Vetiveria zizanioides from wild-harvested North Indian roots, distilled in traditional copper stills to an olive-green oil, earthy, deep and lush, for
$18.00

Essential Oils
Guaiacwood
Wildcrafted guaiacwood from Paraguay, steam-distilled into a thick, semisolid base note: sweetly smoky, earthy and faintly rose-touched, for sacred and meditative blends by candlel
$10.00

Essential Oils
Elemi
Wild elemi resin, steam-distilled into an oil like lemon made richer and more balsamic, drying down sweet and spicy: a lesser-known cousin of frankincense and myrrh for meditation
$12.00

Hydrosols
Neroli Hydrosol (Orange Blossom Water)
Orange blossom water distilled from organically produced bitter orange blossoms in Morocco: mild, sweet and exactly as orange blossoms should smell.
$7.00

Carrier Oils
Jojoba Oil – Organic
Organically produced jojoba from the USA, cold-pressed: a liquid plant wax that mimics the skin's own sebum, sinks in quickly, and is probably the longest-lasting natural oil there
$16.00

Carrier Oils
Calendula Infused Oil
Golden calendula in extra virgin olive oil, made consistent with our calendula CO2 extract: the herbalist's favorite infused oil, ready for your salves, balms and skin blends.
$7.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Baby Bottom Balm
Whipped shea butter with sweet almond, a sifting of arrowroot, lavender and German chamomile: a feather-light balm with a soft, powdery finish for a baby's bottom, and for dry skin
$8.00

Essential Oils
Black Pepper
Steam-distilled from Madagascar peppercorns, yet soft and almost woody, with a near-floral opening that turns peppery only in the dry down: a warming, grounding oil for massage and
$16.00

Essential Oils
Cypress, Blue
A blue oil drawn from wood rather than flowers: Australian blue cypress, distilled from bark and wood, rich, resinous, smoky and honey-like, and grounding enough to anchor a perfum
$16.00

Essential Oils
Agarwood (Oud, Aloewood)
Thick, resinous oud from Thai Aquilaria crassna trees over twenty years old: deep, woody and faintly sweet, a base note that lingers for hours.
$150.00

Essential Oils
Cistus, Traditional
Wildcrafted Spanish cistus, distilled from the resinous leaves by the old open-fire method: deep, rich, warm and spicy, an ancient incense oil for meditation and prayer.
$15.50

Essential Oils
Cedarwood, Atlas
Organically produced in Morocco and steam-distilled from the wood: a calming cedarwood with the smell of an old cedar chest, and a steady base note for bright citrus blends.
$11.00

Bottles, Jars, and Blending Accessories
Jars, White PET Plastic
White PET plastic jars in one and four fluid ounce sizes, the same jars used for small balms and whipped butters, ready for the salves and balms you make yourself.
$2.49

Essential Oils
Eucalyptus, Lemon Ironbark
Lemon ironbark, sometimes called Australian melissa, is as sweet as candy: steam-distilled in Australia and smelling of lemonade and lemon jelly beans, a little sunshine for a wint
$20.00

Carrier Oils
Wheat Bran CO2 Total
Wheat bran CO2 extract from organically produced wheat, rich in linoleic acid: a softening, moisture-keeping addition to face creams, body care and hair care for dry, sensitive ski
$20.00

Essential Oils
Orange, Sweet
Wild, natural sweet orange, cold-pressed from the rind in Italy: bright and cheery in the aroma lamp, refreshing and relaxing, and a favorite with children.
$13.00

Essential Oils
Tagetes (Marigold)
Wildcrafted Tagetes flowers from India, steam-distilled into a pungent, green marigold oil that aromatherapists reach for in foot-care blends.
$12.00

Essential Oils
Grapefruit, White
White grapefruit oil from organically grown fruit in Israel: crisp, tart and sparkling like a dry champagne, astringent without a trace of bitterness, and a fine foil for heavy flo

Carrier Oils
Prickly Pear Seed Oil
Virgin, cold-pressed prickly pear seed oil, Opuntia ficus-indica, organically produced: a clear, fairly thick oil with only a faint aroma, pressed from the seeds of a desert cactus
$48.00

Essential Oils
Ginger Root SELECT CO2
The scent of a freshly grated ginger root, held in a select CO2 extract made in Germany: gently warming rather than hot, and suited to the diffuser on a gray afternoon.
$19.00

Essential Oils
Guava Leaf
Steam-distilled from wild-harvested guava leaves in Thailand: a pale yellow oil that opens woody, then lets a cool hint of mint rise as it dries down.

Essential Oils
Rosa Alba (White Rose) CO2, 5% Dilution
Bulgarian white rose CO2, organically produced, diluted to 5% in organic jojoba oil: the intense, true-to-the-flower scent of Rosa alba, diluted for ease of use.
$18.00

Essential Oils
Rosemary Cineole
Rosmarinus officinalis var.
$18.00

Carrier Oils
Marula Oil
Cold-pressed from the kernels of the marula fruit, organically produced in South Africa: a dry oil that vanishes into the skin almost instantly, leaving it soft and never greasy.
$14.00

Essential Oils
Mastic (Lentisk)
Steam-distilled from the leaves of the Mediterranean lentisk, organically produced in Spain: deeply resinous, fresh and balsamic like pine, softening and rounding as it ages.
$35.00

Essential Oils
Coffee CO2
Organically grown coffee, roasted in Italy and CO2 extracted in Germany: the rich, robust aroma of freshly ground gourmet coffee, for kitchen soaps, sugar scrubs and solid perfumes
$12.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Champa, Golden, Infused in Apricot Kernel Oil
Golden champa blossoms infused in apricot kernel oil: a delicate, soft and sweet floral to wear as perfume from a purse-size roller, or smooth on after the shower as a fragrant bod
$19.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Stimulating Scalp Oil
A nightly scalp massage oil of Atlas cedarwood, lavandin, rosemary and thyme linalol in grapeseed and jojoba: work it in at bedtime, wash it out in the morning.
$12.00

Essential Oils
Orange, Bitter
Organically grown Seville orange rind from Egypt, steam-distilled into a subtle, almost floral citrus oil that seems to remember the orange blossoms that came before it.
$17.00

Essential Oils
Zdravetz CO2
Zdravetz leaves from Bulgaria, CO2-extracted into a thick, waxy, organically produced extract with a sweet, woody, herbal scent and a touch of spice: a fixative with a very long sh
$38.00

Essential Oils
Rosa Alba (White Rose) CO2
Organically produced white rose from Bulgaria's Valley of the Roses, CO2 extracted: thick, creamy and more intense than Damask rose, closer in scent to the living flower than a dis
$94.00

Bottles, Jars, and Blending Accessories
Essential Oil Bottle Key (Bottle Opener)
The apothecary's church key: a small tool that lifts orifice reducers, pops out roller balls and eases off sample vial stoppers, then helps press them all back into place.
$4.99

Essential Oils
Niaouli
Steam-distilled from the leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia in Madagascar, Niaouli is a brisk, clearing, uplifting oil for mornings that need waking and rooms that need air.
$12.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Solace
A gentle synergy for times of loss and change: Cypress, Frankincense, Rose Alba, Rose Otto, Atlas Cedarwood, Helichrysum and Melissa, balanced and woodsy with the softness of the w
$10.00

Essential Oils
Grapefruit, Red
Cold-pressed from the rind of red grapefruit in Mexico, perhaps the sweetest of all citrus oils: candy-bright in the diffuser and lovely in a shampoo for oily hair.

Essential Oils
Lavender Species Sampler
A 5 ml bottle of each of our lavenders and lavandins, from Bulgarian and English lavender to spike lavender and Italian lavandin: the whole lavender field, side by side, for traini
$110.00

Essential Oils
Chamomile, Roman, Italy
Roman chamomile, ethically farmed and steam-distilled in Italy, the one distilled chamomile we know that smells the way chamomile tea tastes: sweet, soft and made for slowing down.
$15.00

Essential Oils
Vanilla, Bourbon, CO2, 10% Dilution
Organically produced Madagascar vanilla CO2, diluted to 10 percent in fractionated coconut oil so it pours with ease: warm, sweet and comforting, for perfumes, lip balms and massag
$14.00

Essential Oils
Ylang-Ylang Complete
Ylang-ylang from Madagascar, organically produced and distilled whole, without fractioning: richly floral with touches of wood, softer and more relaxing than the Extra, warm and co
$14.00

Essential Oils
Bergamot Mint
A mint that smells like lavender kissed with citrus: Mentha citrata, steam-distilled in the USA from sustainably farmed leaves, soft and gently floral, a perfumer's heart note you
$17.00

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Eucalyptus Radiata
Eucalyptus radiata, steam-distilled from leaves in Australia and traditionally counted the most pleasant-smelling of the eucalyptus oils, for the diffuser and the first hour of the
$14.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Winter Sunshine
A solstice blend of rosewood, mandarin, evergreen juniper, frankincense and warm spice, made to bring a little light to the darkest days of winter.
$10.00

Essential Oils
Celery Seed CO2
A CO2 total of celery seed that smells like a crisp, green, freshly snapped stalk, grown in India and extracted in Germany, best breathed in from a tissue or personal inhaler.
$12.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Magdalene’s Anoint
An anointing oil of Frankincense, Rose Otto and Spikenard in organic jojoba, blended for spiritual work: forgiving others, and forgiving ourselves.
$24.00

Essential Oils
White Sage
White sage from a certified organic family farm in Southern California, steam-distilled and high in camphor: the ceremonial sage of smudging, for clearing a room when burning the h
$13.00

Carrier Oils
Baobab Oil
Cold-pressed from the seeds of the baobab, the Tree of Life, in Zimbabwe and South Africa: a non-greasy, yellow-orange oil that sinks in quickly and softens dry and mature skin and
$15.00

Carrier Oils
Mimosa Wax
Our firmest floral wax: butterscotch-colored and softly scented of floral honey, a milder cousin of cassie absolute.
$16.00

Carrier Oils
Jasmine Sambac Wax
The solid, mildly fragrant wax left when jasmine sambac absolute is drawn from its concrete, produced in India: deeper and more exotic than grandiflora wax, for solid perfumes and
$12.00

Carrier Oils
Jasmine Grandiflora Wax
The solid, mildly fragrant wax left behind when jasmine absolute is drawn from its concrete: a soft, gentle floral with a touch of the exotic, for solid perfumes, creams and soap.
$15.00

Carrier Oils
Pomegranate Seed Oil CO2
A light CO2 extract of organic Turkish pomegranate seeds, made in Germany, that sinks quickly into skin and leaves only a faint scent like melted baking chocolate.
$12.00

Carrier Oils
Cocoa Butter
Organically produced cocoa butter, rich, creamy and smelling of the chocolate it comes from: firmer than shea, ready to soften with a carrier oil into balms, salves and a mother-to
$10.99

Carrier Oils
Argan Oil (Refined)
Refined, deodorized argan oil from Argania spinosa, the liquid gold of Moroccan beauty tradition: rich in linoleic acid and natural tocopherols, it sinks in fast and leaves skin re
$14.00

Carrier Oils
Coconut Cream Oil, Extra Virgin
Extra virgin coconut cream oil, cold-pressed in the Philippines from organically produced coconut cream: it smells of freshly grated coconut and melts the moment it touches your sk
$17.00

Essential Oils
Lavandin Italian
An artisan lavandin grown organically in Northern Italy and a mystery even to those who chose it: rich in linalyl acetate, with the subtly spicy note of a fine true lavender.
$15.00

Essential Oils
Palo Santo
The essential oil of Palo Santo, the holy wood, from Bursera graveolens gathered from fallen trees in Ecuador: a trace of lemon, a hint of spice, and a touch of balsam like fine wi
$22.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Fog Cutter
Sparkling grapefruit over a coniferous base of cypress: a fresh, clear citrus synergy for the diffuser or aroma lamp, and the most energizing of our blends.
$12.50

Aromatherapy Blends
Three Kings
Frankincense, myrrh and Bulgarian rose otto, the Magi's gifts, blended: as an anointing oil for Christmas rituals or a synergy for the diffuser on long, candlelit nights.
$13.00

Aromatherapy Blends
MeltAway Salve
Siberian fir CO2, black pepper and coriander CO2 in jojoba and beeswax: a smooth, fast-absorbing salve with the warm, woodsy scent of a sunlit forest path.
$34.00

Aromatherapy Blends
Cleopatra’s Secret Radiance
A rich, rose-scented face and body creme made primarily with certified organic ingredients, rose hydrosol first among them, that absorbs quickly.
$18.00

Essential Oils
Lavender, English
English lavender, ethically farmed in Great Britain: crisp, fresh and far less floral than Mailette, with a soft spicy note, made for the morning shower rather than the evening.
$16.00