Aja Botanicals

AFTER MIDNIGHT 🖤

Sensuality and radiance in one bottle. After Midnight is the fragrance we always reach for whenever we need a transformation, be it day or night, the kind of scent that elevates the soul and lifts your spirits.
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Today’s eclipse is perfect for After Midnight! Head over to our journal to read all about it.

🌙🦁With the Lion’s Gate portal and the eclipse, there’s so much great energy out there. We marked the Lion’s Gate on 8/8 at the Rollright Stones, and had a brilliant gong bath at Bamford in the Cotswold: 🔔

Tonight we’re going to step outside to watch the eclipse, writing down one thing we’re ready to let go of, burning it safely, and then welcoming in the new as the light comes back in. ☀️

Full Spirit Notes up on the site now, link in bio 🌙

Photo credit: Kevin Mallon

✨It was so much fun to spend a few days with Marina Barcenilla Parfums in Somerset this month, on her chypre and fougère workshop through the School of Creative Perfumery. Her courses are brilliant, and properly fascinating.📚

There is nowhere I would rather be to work on the foundations of a new fragrance, especially with the fougère and chypre families, using the best natural ingredients we possibly can, to create fragrances that are loved and that last.

I’m so excited for what’s coming, I’ve been looking forward to creating a fougère for years.

So grateful for the time, the opportunity, and for building something slowly and properly.🙏🏼

SPIRIT NOTES: What’s under your shell, and what could you let go of? That’s what today’s New Moon in Cancer is really asking. 🌙

Admittedly, this post is landing a little late in Cancer season. We’ve been out enjoying the weather, hope you have too..Country weekends, roses, church bells, cold river dips, evenings outside with the people we love. Fitting for a season about home. What more do we need? ✨🏡

Mercury is retrograde in Cancer right now, not asking you to act, but to feel what’s coming up. To understand that it’s not a problem to solve. It’s something to sit with. 🧘

Our ritual for tonight: light your Dreams candle, let anything old surface and pass without judgment . Then remind yourself: whatever you’re facing, you’ll find your way through it. Let that certainty move through your whole body.⚡️

Full Spirit Notes on the Journal. Link in bio.

There has been so much to love about May. Two bank holidays, the hottest May on record and the second full moon of the month on the 31st — May is not done with us yet!⁠ 🌸⁠
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I loved just catching the bluebells early this month for Mila’s very first walk and now her first river swim with my nieces in the Cotswolds 🩵⁠
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Beauty wise I have always rated Victoria Beckham’s smudgy eyeliners but her foundation with Augusta Bader is excellent too.⁠
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I can highly recommend a monthly sound bath to rebalance, check out in Richmond if you want to try one. 🪄🎼🔮⁠
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Am loving finding more Gucci flats on Vestiaire and for a great lunch in London check out , Shepherd’s Bush. ⁠
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In other news we have completed our hand wash and hand lotion for Bagatelle for their London restaurants and are now creating a bespoke summer fragrance for them, which has inspired this month’s muse, the ultimate icon Jane Birkin.⁠ ⁠
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So much to be super excited about. Hope you are enjoying this amazing Spring! ⁠
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With love, Tilly x 🌿⁠
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✨TAURUS SEASON: AWAKEN YOUR SENSES ✦
🌙Two full moons in May, Uranus leaving Ta**us after seven years, the healing frequency of birdsong and the shadow side of Ta**us that is always worth knowing. 😅
This season's Spirit Notes is up on the journal now. Link in bio. 🌿

“After a couple of weeks of the master manifestor energy of Ta**us I am finding myself oscillating between thrilled and frazzled. Things are happening that I wasn't anticipating but couldn't be more welcome. I just need to keep up with it all and take some time to chill in the garden 🌼”

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