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10 ml Tangerine Essential Oil — apothecary hero
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Tangerine Essential Oil

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Happiness got scaled: bigger, bucket-listed, once-in-a-lifetime. The small repeatable joys were left off the brochure because nobody could charge for them.
Happiness got scaled: bigger, bucket-listed, once-in-a-lifetime, off the brochure. The small repeatable joys got left off, because nobody could charge for them. A satsuma-sized holiday, daily, forever. The travel industry hates this trick.

KEPT FOR:

  • Brightness
  • Today
  • Smallness
  • Everyday
Botanical Citrus reticulata
Origin Brazil
From Fruit peel
Process Cold pressed
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WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SOLD

Happiness got scaled.

Somewhere along the way, happiness got scaled up. It became bigger, bucket-listed, once-in-a-lifetime; a thing you book, save for, fly to, and photograph, sold to you by an industry that can only charge for the enormous. And in all that scaling-up, the small repeatable joys, the ones that happen daily and cost almost nothing, got quietly left off the brochure, because nobody worked out how to bill you for them. A tangerine is one of those. A satsuma-sized holiday. Daily. Forever. The travel industry, understandably, hates this trick.

A satsuma-sized holiday, daily, forever. The travel industry hates this trick.

WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS

Tangerine Essential Oil, cold-pressed from the peel of Citrus reticulata from Brazil. Sweet, bright and cheerful, with a fresh, zesty, faintly snack-like sparkle, a touch brighter and zestier than its mellow, golden cousin mandarin, and altogether more everyday than the grand, once-in-a-lifetime scents. It is not a holiday you save up for. It is a small, portable, pocket-sized bit of sun, available now, this afternoon, at roughly the cost of a piece of fruit.

Aroma profile
Sweet bright
Zesty snack
Cheerful
Once-in-a-lifetime

Brighter and zestier than mellow mandarin. Smaller than a holiday. On purpose.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

Down in the Scent Sanctum, tangerine is what Pip keeps in the Pocket Sun, for the ones who keep deferring the small joys to a weekend that arrives already exhausted.

  • A satsuma-sized holiday: Kept for the intention to have a small, bright, daily joy that doesn't need booking, saving up for, or putting on a bucket list.
  • Use by: this afternoon: For when you defer joy to the weekend and spend the weekend recovering. The pocket-sun refuses your scheduling. It happens today, or it happens today.
  • Small bright air: Sweet, bright, snack-fresh citrus air that lifts a room a little, cheaply, daily.
  • The pocket-sun hour: For the small bright afternoon, the soft snack-bright room, the little everyday lift.

SPIRIT & MOOD

  • Brightness
  • Today
  • Smallness
  • Everyday

WHY YOU NEED IT

The joy you keep deferring. Have it today.

Kept for the small bright afternoon, the soft snack-bright room, the little everyday lift you keep meaning to get around to. A few drops when you would otherwise defer the small joy to a weekend that will arrive already tired, because the pocket-sun does not do scheduling, and it is, as it happens, available right now.

Small, bright, non-transferable. Use by: this afternoon.

SAFETY NOTICE AROMA USE ONLY FILED THE SENSIBLE DESK

The sensible bit

For aroma use only with suitable diffuser or aromatherapy equipment. Tangerine is one of the gentler oils, but keep it fresh and stored away from heat and light, as older citrus oil is more likely to irritate skin. 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. Avoid use during pregnancy and around children under 3. Avoid eyes and sensitive areas. Keep away from children, pets, heat, sparks and open flames. Store upright and tightly closed. Use in a well-ventilated space and never leave heated equipment unattended. Seek professional guidance if breastfeeding, taking medication, managing a health condition, or using around vulnerable people. Discontinue use if irritation occurs.

GIFT · THE JOY-DEFERRER

Keeps saving the good bit for the weekend, then spends the weekend recovering. Give them a small daily brightness that refuses to be scheduled.

To the weekend-deferrer

Have it today.

GIFT · THE BUCKET-LIST-WEARY

Tired of being sold joy as a big, once-in-a-lifetime, book-it-now event. Give them the small repeatable kind the brochure left out.

To the small-joys one

Off the brochure.

GIFT · THE BRIGHT-CITRUS SORT

Loves a sweet, bright, cheerful, everyday citrus, zestier than mandarin, less grand than a holiday. This is that.

To the pocket-sun one

Small and bright.

DO NOT GIVE TO

The person who insists joy only counts if it's photographed at altitude. This is a joy the size of a piece of fruit. It will not trend. It will simply happen, daily, which is better.

Won't trend. Will happen.

Happiness got scaled.

PORTRAIT · PIP
IN THE POCKET SUN
PIP

Pip turns up every afternoon and will not keep till Saturday.

Pip is a sun-mote, one of the tiny bright motes of afternoon light that are far too small to photograph and far too cheerful to ignore, the sort of thing you catch out of the corner of your eye and feel briefly, unreasonably better for. Pip keeps the Pocket Sun of the Sanctum, and trusts tangerine because it is a small, bright joy that happens today and cannot be saved for later.

Pip has watched the Surfacefolk scale happiness up into enormous, bucket-listed, once-in-a-lifetime events, book them, save for them, defer them, and defer the small daily joys along with them, always to a weekend that turns up too tired to enjoy anything. Pip finds this baffling. Pip turns up every afternoon, small and bright and free, and cannot understand why you keep telling it Saturday.

So Pip keeps the pocket-sun ready, daily, non-transferable, use by this afternoon, on the firm and slightly exasperated principle that the joy the size of a piece of fruit was always the one you could actually have.

Small as a seed; turns up every afternoon; will not, under any circumstances, keep till the weekend.

Two crates, pocket-sized sun

Tangerine keeps company. All of it small and bright.

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BEFORE YOU GOA WORD FROM THE POCKET SUN
About the weekend you're saving it for:

You defer the joy to the weekend.

And then the weekend arrives already exhausted, spent recovering from the week that earned it, and the small bright thing you were saving up for gets deferred again, to the next weekend, which will arrive just as tired. The big joys need booking and saving and altitude. The small ones just need you to stop postponing them. That's the whole catch. They don't keep.

SAVE IT FOR SATURDAY.EARN IT FIRST.BOOK SOMETHING BIGGER.
You had a genuinely nice five minutes this week and immediately felt you should be doing something else.

So have the small one now. Set the bright tangerine going and let the afternoon lift a little, today, cheaply, without booking anything. Small, bright, non-transferable. Use by: this afternoon.

10 ml Tangerine Essential Oil — apothecary detail USE BY: THIS AFTERNOON
Nº 0063 · CITRUS RETICULATA · A SATSUMA-SIZED HOLIDAY£6 10ML
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