~ Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Its tone is of such unrelaxed fiber, that even at this late day, unworn by time, it wears the English and the Sanskrit dress indifferently and its fixed sentences keep up their distant fires still, like the stars, by whose dissipated rays this lower world is illumined.” It has such a rhythm as the winds of the desert, such a tide as the Ganges, and is as superior to criticism as the Himmaleh Mountains. “It seems to have been uttered from some eastern summit, with a sober morning prescience in the dawn of time, and you cannot read a sentence without being elevated as upon the table-land of the Ghauts. This aromatic attar brings you back to your inner being, reminding you of your connection with the earth and all its natural bounty. Mesmerizing Mitti Attar is centering, grounding, and beneficially beguiling. While many of us in the West may associate the smell of rain with the scent of droplets hitting the concrete, our Mitti Attar transports you to time and place light years away from the paved byways of modern living. This grounding, gorgeous attar, of Sandalwood and earth, captures the silent poetics of the earth’s intimacy just after it begins to rain. Our mystical Mitti Attar essence is created using distillation methods first conceived by Ancient Indian herbal-masters who lived over 5,000 years ago. Perfect on pulse points and meridians for meditation. Vetiver, Patchouli, Jasmine, Rose, Ylang, Spikenard, and Frankincense. The first drops of rain falling on parched earth enveloped by Sandalwood’s serene embrace. Country of Origin: India Composition: 100% Santalum album + Mitti baked earth Consistency: Medium viscosity Cultivation Method: Cultivated Sandalwood and Wild Clay Scent Description And because this is how rain is bottled.Botanical Name: Santalum album + Mitti baked earth Botanical Family: Santalaceae Extraction Method: Traditional attar hydro-distillation of special baked earth distilled into Sandalwood Part of Plant Distilled: Baked earth and heartwood. I adore it because this is the scent I’ve been searching for since 2006. I’ve worn it every night for the last month. I can’t imagine distilling anything that long but this is what it takes to distill this absolutely precious attar. The most I’ve distilled is three distillations in one day. Special clay is kiln baked, soaked in water and distilled for a month. It takes a lot of doing to create this attar. After a colleague encouraged me to consider adding attars to our apothecary, I decided to try Mitti from our adored distillation partner due to the superb work they do in this field. Nothing matched the scent of monsoon rain on red clay in Arizona. I kept samples over the years as both a record but also to age them out in the hope I would capture that scent but I was disappointed. I didn’t know that in India, this beautiful oil has been distilled for over a thousand years. In those days, I knew little about Mitti Attar or Petrichor oil. It was dusty and deep and I wanted to bottle it. It smelled soft and sweet with a clay mineral note. I remember the scent when the monsoon came. After weeks of 100 degree heat and red dust caked on all my belongings, there was rain. Arizona was hard on my body and after almost a year, I decided I had to return to the sea but not before the desert saw fit to leave me with a parting gift. I felt lost as my place to write or meditate were no longer near the ocean. I had heatstroke too many times and found it hard to acclimate to cactus and red dust. In 2006, I moved from West Coast Canada to the extreme heat and desert of Arizona.
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