Scent and Stillness: Where the Natural Reveals the Sacred - 115

👋 Hi fragrance friend,

My love for perfume and scent in general takes me all the way back to that treasured hidden garden of my childhood. But life does not pause in memory. It moves, asks, stretches us. And scent, if we allow it, moves with us.

Perfume no longer belongs only to reverie. It lives on the body as we work, pray, wait, question, and return. It does not lift us out of life, but invites us to fully inhabit it.

Over time, I’ve come to recognize a second, equally formative experience of scent—one rooted not in childhood play, but in the sacred.

The first time frankincense truly registered for me, it was not as a note or material, but as atmosphere—the stillness, gravity, and sense of sacred presence that fills a church during Holy Mass.

This is why I feel such a deep affinity for Amouage Existence—with its luminous florals and clarifying frankincense. It feels less like something worn and more like something entered. A scent that opens space, allows breath, and gently draws the senses inward.

I find myself drawn to fragrances that remain in this kind of dialogue—where the natural reveals the sacred. Compositions that breathe. That unfold slowly. That leave room for silence as much as expression.

If the garden taught me how to notice, living with scent—especially scent shaped by ritual and reverence—teaches me how to remain present, here and now, in the depths of my soul.

Attentive.
Embodied.
Alive.

I hope you had a blessed Christmas if you celebrated. May you feel the healing love of our Savior enveloping you.

With kindness,
🕊 Flor at Nectar Atelier

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