Summer of Patchouli LOVE 2011 Perfumer Tanja Bochnig, April Aromatics, Berlin (Natural and Organic Perfumes) …Tanja’s Personal Patchouli Story…

When I need to feel grounded or am lacking extra strength, Patchouli helps me feel the earth underneath my feet and to connect me with my inner male.

…when my head is too much up in the Summer of Patchouli LOVE clouds a drop of patchouli oil brings me right back into reality, connecting me with mother earth.

How do I love thee?

From morning all through the night, I personally have always loved Patchouli. Even though I have not lived consciously in the sixties, I think I would have been a patchouli lover there and then.

I love its rich musky-sweet, strong spicy and herbaceous, soapy smell and associate it with feeling clean and earthy. I love how the smell develops on the skin of men. For me Patchouli has a male association, even though it is said to be a female plant that is ruled by the planet Saturn.

Patchouli blends well with almost every oil, making it a different story and melody in each combination.

When I use Patchouli in my perfumes, it is used in rather subtle doses, adding it to enhance and ground the blend, to give it foundation and strength.

Spice Blend, Precious Woods and Nectar of Love all contain Patchouli in various concentrations.

Since I love working with chakras and their subtle properties, they have become a daily ritual for me. Patchouli is not to be missed in April Aromatics Root Chakra Oil and Spray.

Also Indian Forest Mist loves Patchouli.

Much has been said and written about patchouli already and I will spare the botanical details here.

Like with all the oils that I use in my blends, I try to intuitively connect with the energy of the plant.

What does it tell me?

What does it want to teach me?

What impressions do I receive?

What colours?

Do I like the smell?

Do I sense it in any particular area of my body, in any energy center?

What texture, shape, feeling, sensation, sound and memory do I feel?

What are its subtle properties?

With which chakras is it most connected?

What are its energy gifts?

I listened and patchouli answered me:

It tells me that our bodies are sacred and to treat them as such. It wants to help us to ground at the same time; it wants to lift our spirit and our mind to be able to be dancing in the light of the sun.

It is showing us, especially through its scent to use our sensuality and physical desires as a sacred gift, helping us to release anxiety on all levels.

It wants us to connect back to our utmost tribal connections to mother earth, digging our hands and feet deep into the ground, finding our connection to the earth again, that we lost long ago.

It tells us that we are safe here on earth and that we as people need to find back to our roots, connecting each other as ONE. It wants us to come back to the original act of creation, sharing our gifts, supporting each other as brothers and sisters and not making us separate from everyone else. Once we find our way back together, through communities or else, the world will heal.

This is a perfect plant/oil to be focused upon during this challenging time on earth and I thank Monica Miller for being so in tune to choose Patchouli. Together with our Patchouli scents we can spread the message and the LOVE into the world.

I am honored to be part of this.

Thank you and Namaste.

Tanja Bochnig

April Aromatics

P for Peace

A  for All

T  for Trust

C  for Caring

H for Home

O for Ohm

U for Unitiy

L for Love

I for Integrity

 Editors Note: Thank you Tanja for sharing with us your words and impressions. As a busy mother it is wonderful that you find time for your creative April Aromatics Perfuming work and to bring it to share with the world.

To be clear, it was Libby Patterson of Libby Patterson Organics idea to use Patchouli as Perfume Pharmer’s project this year, thank you Libby! XO ~ Monica

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