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Spruce Essential Oil

The Ovurwurld domesticated winter: fairy lights on it, playlists over it, sales through it. The old dark conifer declined the makeover.

The Ovurwurld domesticated winter: fairy lights on it, playlists over it, sales through it. The old dark conifer declined the makeover. Winter wasn't a retail quarter at this altitude. Low-voiced season, low-voiced you, one bottle between you.

KEPT FOR:

Quiet
Depth
Forest
Winter

Botanical Picea mariana

Origin United States of America

From Needles

Process Steam distillation

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WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SOLD

The Ovurwurld domesticated winter.

Upstairs, they domesticated winter. They strung fairy lights on it, put a playlist over it, ran a sale through it, turned the coldest, quietest, most inward season of the year into a retail quarter with a soundtrack and a countdown. And the old dark conifer, high up where the snow means it, simply declined the makeover. It kept its winter the way winter used to be: quiet, dark, low-voiced and unbothered, a season for going inward rather than shopping outward. Winter, at that altitude, was never a retail quarter.

Winter wasn't a retail quarter at this altitude.

WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS

Spruce Essential Oil, steam distilled from the needles of Picea mariana, black spruce, from the United States. Fresh, deep and coniferous, with a dark, balsamic, softly sweet forest character, cleaner and quieter than the brighter pines, the smell of a shadowed evergreen wood on a still winter afternoon. Where the domesticated version of the season is all lights and noise, this is the other winter entirely: low, dark, green and calm, the forest going quiet as the year goes down.

Aroma profile

Dark conifer

Fresh balsamic

Deep forest

Fairy lights

The other winter. Low, dark, green, and entirely undomesticated.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

Down in the Scent Sanctum, spruce is what Tarn keeps in the Dark Conifer, for the ones who perform the festivity in December and privately prefer the woods when they go quiet and dark.

The undomesticated winter: Kept for the intention to keep one winter that hasn't had fairy lights strung on it, a playlist put over it, or a sale run through it.
Low-voiced you: For the one who performs the festivity and privately prefers the quiet dark woods. The spruce keeps that confidence. Every year.
Dark fresh forest air: Fresh, dark, balsamic, coniferous forest air that gives a room the depth of the winter woods.
The shadowed-forest hour: For the shadowed forest hour, the old conifer air, the winter woods speaking low.

SPIRIT & MOOD

Quiet
Depth
Forest
Winter

WHY YOU NEED IT

The quiet dark winter you actually prefer.

Kept for the shadowed forest hour, the old conifer air, the winter woods speaking low. A few drops when the domesticated, lit-up, soundtracked version of the season is too much, and you'd rather have the other one: dark, quiet, green and inward, the winter you privately preferred all along.

Low-voiced season, low-voiced you, one bottle between you.

SAFETY NOTICE AROMA USE ONLY FILED THE SENSIBLE DESK

The sensible bit

For aroma use only with suitable diffuser or aromatherapy equipment. Spruce is a gentle conifer oil, but keep it fresh and stored cool and dark, as older, oxidised conifer 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 DECEMBER INTROVERT

Performs the festivity beautifully and privately longs for the woods when they go quiet and dark. Give them the winter they actually prefer.

To the low-voiced one

Renew the arrangement.

GIFT · THE ANTI-TINSEL SORT

Is quietly done with fairy lights, playlists and countdown sales stapled to the season. Give them the undomesticated version.

To the quiet-winter one

No makeover.

GIFT · THE FOREST-DARK SORT

Loves a deep, dark, fresh, coniferous forest scent, the quieter and greener the better. This is the shadowed-wood one.

To the dark-conifer one

Deep, dark, green.

DO NOT GIVE TO

The person who wants their whole home to smell like a scented cinnamon countdown from November the first. This is the opposite of that, on purpose, and would only disappoint them.

No countdown here.

The Ovurwurld domesticated winter.

PORTRAIT · TARN
IN THE DARK CONIFER

TARN

Tarn declined the fairy lights. Winter survived.

Tarn is a skogsrå, one of the old guardians of the deep northern woods, low-voiced and still and entirely at home in the dark, who keep the forest the way it has always been and see no reason to string lights on it. Tarn keeps the Dark Conifer of the Sanctum, and trusts spruce because it declined winter's makeover and kept the season quiet, dark and undomesticated.

Tarn has watched the Surfacefolk domesticate winter, hang fairy lights on the coldest quietest season, put a playlist over it, run a sale through it, and has watched, with quiet recognition, the particular sort of person who performs all of that festivity by day and privately, secretly prefers the woods when they go dark and still. Tarn knows that person. Tarn keeps their real winter safe.

So the spruce holds the confidence, year after year: the low-voiced season for the low-voiced you, one bottle between you, an arrangement quietly renewed each time the year goes down and the woods go quiet.

Guards the old dark woods; keeps your quiet winter unmade-over; renews the arrangement each year.

Two crates, dark and green

Spruce keeps company. All of it low-voiced.

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BEFORE YOU GOA WORD FROM THE DARK CONIFER

About the season you perform:

You prefer the woods when they go quiet.

You do the festivity. The lights, the playlist, the countdown, the performed December cheer; you do it well, and some of it you even mean. But privately, quietly, the part of the season you actually love is the other part: the woods gone dark and still, the year going down, the low quiet inward hush that the whole lit-up retail version is designed to paper over. You prefer the quiet one. You're allowed to.

PERFORM THE CHEER.HANG MORE LIGHTS.KEEP THE PLAYLIST ON.

You slipped outside at a December thing this year just to stand in the dark and the quiet for a minute.

So keep the other winter too. Set the dark, fresh spruce going and let the room be the shadowed, quiet, undomesticated woods for a while, the season the way you privately prefer it. Low-voiced season, low-voiced you, one bottle between you.

10 ml Spruce Essential Oil — apothecary detail

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Nº 0068 · PICEA MARIANA · THE UNDOMESTICATED WINTER£7 10ML

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