Skeem's Palo Santo collection includes burning sticks ($24 - $64), soap ($16), essential oil rollerballs ($20), room spray ($32), candle ($36) and solid perfume ($18). "Palo Santo is a sustainably cultivated wood from South America that has natural aromatic properties from its resin. The scent is complex with rich, musky, sweet, citrus notes mixed with mint and pine. This “holy wood” is traditionally burned to ward off bad energy, calm and cleanse the body and mind, and to bring good fortune to those who use it."
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Cedar rope incense: "Fredericks & Mae is the design team of Jolie Mae Signorile and Gabriel Fredericks Cohen, who met through a shared love for materials: feathers, thread, gold, and paper decorated their first studio in 2007. Their collaborative practice has since evolved into a series of objects for the home, garden, and sky. The duo's cedar rope incense is designed for use with an incense holder." On markdown, $12 at The Maryn. (Rope incense is generally made with rice paper, and you lay it flat on ash or a rope incense burner to burn it.)
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Smokeless incense from Bodha: "Smokeless organic incense infused with the earthy, woodsy notes of Japanese cypress, cedarwood and bergamot to help ground your mind, body and spirit." $28 at Nordstrom.
(Mostly) Scented Father’s Day Gifts ~ 2018 Edition
I have two “kids”; both cats. If they could give Father’s Day presents to me, I know they’d be either food-focused (Teddy Caramelo Calzini: redhead, polydactyl with attitude) or toy-focused (Uncle Vanya Mandelstam: he catches birds through windows — a feat! And he insists on wearing his luxurious coat all year round…see above).
Following are some perfume-adjacent gift suggestions for your father (that I’d like to receive or already own and can recommend); no foods or toys made the list! (Unless you count booze.)
Bastide Aix en Provence Les Chevaliers Body Wash Collection: five 50 ml body washes…
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Muru incense pyres from Blackbird: "Muru is a sophisticated and rich, green, woody-earthy smell. Burning Muru imparts a foreign, exotic feel to any atmosphere. The name Muru means grass in Estonian." With vetiver, yuzu, cypress and soil; 20+ cones for $34 at Blackbird. (These are the ones I've had my eye on, but reader favorites mentioned in the comments recently include Ploom, Gorgo, Lone, Targa and Tilde.)