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Sage Essential Oil

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Intention got an app, a hack and a five-minute version. The old green herb still only works if you actually mean it.
Intention got an app, a hack and a five-minute version. The old green herb declined all three. It still only works if you actually mean it: deliberate, serious, marked properly, the way intention used to be done.

KEPT FOR:

  • Intention
  • Gravity
  • Deliberateness
  • Focus
Botanical Salvia officinalis
Origin Spain
From Leaves
Process Steam distillation
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WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SOLD

Intention got a five-minute version.

Intention, lately, got optimised. There's an app for it, a hack for it, a five-minute version, a frictionless one-tap way to set a purpose and feel briefly purposeful before scrolling on. And in all that streamlining, the one thing intention actually requires, that you genuinely, deliberately mean it, quietly got skipped, because meaning it takes seriousness and seriousness takes time. The old green herb declined the upgrade. Sage still only works the old way: deliberately, gravely, and only if you actually mean it.

The old green intention. Meant properly, or not at all.

WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS

Sage Essential Oil, steam distilled from the leaves of Salvia officinalis from Spain, the old true sage, the herb whose Latin name shares a root with the word 'salvation'. Strong, green, herbaceous and camphoraceous, sharp and serious and entirely without frills, a grave old scent that has been part of deliberate ritual for several thousand years and sees no reason to lighten up now. This is not a casual oil. It is potent, in every sense, and asks to be treated as such.

Aroma profile
Serious green
Camphoraceous
Herbaceous
Five-minute hack

Grave, green, and several thousand years past needing to impress you.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

Down in the Scent Sanctum, sage is what Cairn keeps in the Old Green Intention, for the ones who set intentions like alarms and then quietly snooze them.

  • Meant properly: Kept for the intention to do the deliberate thing deliberately, in a world that sells intention as a hack, an app and a five-minute version.
  • Snoozed no more: For the intentions you set like alarms and never quite honour. The old green herb only works if you actually mean it. So mean it.
  • Serious green air: Strong, green, camphoraceous, herbaceous air that gives a room a serious, deliberate, old-intention gravity.
  • The marked-homework hour: For the ritual-notes hour, the marked-homework room, the deliberate old-green intention.

SPIRIT & MOOD

  • Intention
  • Gravity
  • Deliberateness
  • Focus

WHY YOU NEED IT

The deliberate thing, done deliberately.

Kept for the ritual-notes hour, the marked-homework room, the old green intention. A drop or two, no more, when you want to do a deliberate thing properly rather than reach for the hacked, five-minute, one-tap version, and when you're ready to actually mean the intention instead of merely setting it.

You set intentions like alarms and snooze them. Not this one.

SAFETY NOTICE AROMA USE ONLY FILED THE SENSIBLE DESK

The sensible bit

For aroma use only with suitable diffuser or aromatherapy equipment; use sparingly, a drop or two is plenty, and keep sessions short. IMPORTANT: sage is high in thujone, a naturally occurring compound that can be neurotoxic, so do not use it during pregnancy or breastfeeding, around children, or if you have epilepsy, a seizure disorder or high blood pressure. Do not ingest; do not add to food or drink; do not use in baths; do not apply to skin, even diluted or on broken skin; and do not use for massage or personal care. Use only in a well-ventilated space. Avoid eyes and sensitive areas. Keep away from children, pets, heat, sparks and open flames. Store upright and tightly closed. Never leave heated equipment unattended. Seek professional guidance if taking medication, managing a health condition, or using around vulnerable people. Discontinue use if any irritation or discomfort occurs.

GIFT · THE INTENTION-SNOOZER

Sets purposeful intentions with great sincerity and honours roughly none of them. Give them the old green herb that only works if they actually mean it.

To the deliberate one

Mean it properly.

GIFT · THE HACK-WEARY

Is quietly done with everything having an app, a hack and a five-minute version. Give them one thing that insists on being done the old, deliberate way.

To the serious one

No five-minute version.

GIFT · THE SERIOUS-GREEN SORT

Loves a strong, green, herbaceous, no-frills scent with real gravity to it. This is about as grave and green as the shelf gets.

To the grave one

Serious. Green. Old.

DO NOT GIVE TO

Anyone after a light, easy, casual scent for idle diffusing. This one is potent, serious and asks to be meant. It does not do casual, and it does not do a five-minute version.

Not a casual oil.

Intention got a five-minute version.

PORTRAIT · CAIRN
IN THE OLD GREEN INTENTION
CAIRN

Cairn rejected the five-second intention on sight.

Cairn is a wight, one of the old, grave guardian-spirits of the land, stone-still and deliberate and entirely unhurried, the sort raised, marker by marker, over a very long time to mean something on purpose. Cairn keeps the Old Green Intention of the Sanctum, and trusts sage because it still only works if you genuinely, deliberately mean it: serious, green, grave, and immune to the five-minute version.

Cairn has watched the Surfacefolk optimise intention into an app, a hack, a one-tap gesture set with great sincerity and honoured almost never, purpose reduced to a thing you feel for a moment and scroll past. Cairn, who is essentially a very old pile of deliberate marks, finds this baffling. An intention, Cairn holds, is not set. It is meant. There is a difference, and it is the whole difference.

So Cairn keeps the grave green sage for the ones ready to do the deliberate thing deliberately, and marks the serious hour properly, on the ancient and immovable principle that the things worth intending were always the ones you had to actually mean.

Old as the hills; grave and deliberate; will not accept an intention you don't actually mean.

Two crates, deliberate

Sage keeps company. All of it meant properly.

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BEFORE YOU GOA WORD FROM THE OLD GREEN INTENTION
About the intentions you set:

You set them like alarms. Then snooze.

You're good at setting intentions. The app, the ritual, the sincere five-minute morning practice; you set them with genuine feeling and then, somewhere around the second snooze, you quietly stop meaning them. The setting is easy now, streamlined, one-tap, frictionless. It's the meaning it that takes the seriousness, and the seriousness is the part every hack was quietly designed to let you skip.

SET IT IN FIVE MINUTES.TAP TO INTEND.FEEL BRIEFLY PURPOSEFUL.
You set a very sincere intention this year and cannot, honestly, remember what it was.

So do the deliberate thing deliberately, for once. Set a drop of the grave green sage going and mark the hour properly, meaning the intention instead of merely setting it. The old green intention. Meant properly, or not at all.

10 ml Sage Essential Oil — apothecary detail MEANT PROPERLY
Nº 0047 · SALVIA OFFICINALIS · MEAN IT PROPERLY£10 10ML
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