Brightwise Blog

Perfume is another stop on a personal scent journey. Most commercial perfumes and Eau de toilettes' are filled to the brim with irritating ingredients. If you have a fragrance sensitivity like me or care deeply about the ingredients of what you put on your body, this is an issue.  Luckily, Eau de toilette is something we can make ourselves! Fairly easily too. I even grow some of the fragrance ingredients in my backyard. My favorite combination of flowers is rose, lilac, and jasmine for a Botanica-inspired personal scent.  It may seem complicated, and it certainly can be if you're scent...

Fresh • Floral • Lush It's a summer garden in full bloom. Have you ever wandered through a lush botanical garden of blossoming roses, red pink and yellow? I like to run my hands over the tiny white jasmine blossoms and breathe in their their heavenly oils. Above me the lilacs are softly swaying in their tree. And we can't forget the dirt. No garden, be it wildflower or cultivated would be possible without perfectly earth scented soil. Your sun-kissed garden bouquet blooms forever with the Botanica Brightwise Candle.  The burning of this candle is truly a treat for the senses.   ...

Classic • Herbal • Relaxing Inspired in part by lengthening countryside rows of English lavender, the expression of these swelling purple buds could be distilled and purified in isolation but I've chosen to pair the scent with something special. Sweet and earthy tonka bean. Tonka invites a warming sense of grounding to the delicacy of high herbal lavender. Prized for its aromatics for centuries, the lavender plant has been cultivated since the Ancient Greek and roman times. Full sun, like myself, is it's best friend. Let's just swirl through the tall stalks of lightly purpled flowers and evermore fragrant silver foliage.  Grown in regions with hot summers, the aroma...