Richwood XerJoff 2010

I would like to tell you about one of my dreams.
A beautiful day in winter, it's snowing in Berlin. In a few days, the clean white that is still falling from the sky will turn into many dirty lumps of slush that will adorn the streets of the city and sadly de-romanticize yesterday's snow. And then everyone wants summer again. That's life...because you can't have everything.

but not in my dream.

The snow stays here, forever. There will never be too much snow on the ground, just as much as is still beautiful and right. Here, the white powder falls from the sky and covers the white birch bark of the precious trees, so that you can just make out their outlines in the distance. No tar, no grass, just a white blanket and the occasional white trunk reaching up into the sky. The branches and the snow become one, merge, unite, you can't see anything but the big picture. The longer I watch, the calmer I become. This image has burned itself into my brain.

In my work at a psychiatric facility, we help our patients to learn various relaxation techniques. One of them we call "the inner safe place".
This "place" is a moment, a situation or an image that only you know and can create in your mind whenever the inner tension boils up inside you. It's not easy, you have to practise it, but little by little the image becomes clearer and clearer and you can watch yourself calm down internally.

My inner safe place is the image of birch trees in the snow.
Nothing is too much, nothing is too cold or too loud. No one is disturbing, no one is shouting - everything is just fine and right the way it is

That's exactly what I experience with this fragrance.
The untouched beauty, when it simply comes over me without any influence or judgment, takes me in and whisks me away to a place where the birch trees and the snow become one. A place that calms me, gives me security, comfort and energy.

Of course, Richwood doesn't smell like snow or birch trees, but rather a creamy, woody wonder peppered with friendly roses and initial fruity-fresh nuances.
Of course, that doesn't do the fragrance justice, you just have to get to know it, my inner safe place, or at least the smell of this place.