MIL Y UN FLOR

Pure perfume, created from pure Rose Oil, Geranium Oil, Sandalwood and just a touch of Grapefruit presented in hand crafted bottles that conjure up the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights. The perfume is  wrapped in hand painted silk paper and kept save in simple & stylish boxes covered in gold leaf. At the bottom of each of these treasures you will find, to complete your sensuous experience, a small package of crystallized Rose and Verveine Petals for you to nibble while putting on your perfume.

Pass by our shop Gaia Bathtime to sample this new sumptuous perfume, to nibble a rose petal or two and have a glass of cava while out on your Christmas shopping spree. As always we will make you feel special!

Christmas Calendar at GAIA bathtime

Some dates for your Calendar!

Same as every year we are going to be at a number of fairs and Christmas markets all over the island in November and December:

 GAIA stall at your service,  Baleart 2009

 20^th of November we are in BUNYOLA for the Artisan Fair in the afternoon

20^th of November we are at KING RICHARD International School

21^st  Still in BUNYOLA all day

27^th and 28^th Mancor de Vall  Artisan Fair

3^rd of December Baleart this year it will be held along the Borne in the heart of Christmasy Palma

4^th Baleart

4^th Porto Portals Christmas Market down in the Port ( Saturday)

5^th Baleart ( Sunday)

6^th Baleart ( Fiesta)

7^th Baleart

8^th Baleart ( Fiesta)

11^th  BIS International School Magaluf  (Saturday)

11^th Havanna Bar Calle Son Magin

12^th Andraitx town Square Christmas Market ( Sunday)

12^th Havanna  Bar Calle San Margin  Santa Catalina

13^th Havanna Bar Calle San Margin  Santa Catalina

Blanca will join us at the Baleart with her massage chair the same as the previous year for 15 minute distress during your Christmas shopping. We look forward to seeing you at some or even all the events over the Christmas period. Our shop will open normal opening times and as always we are there to sort out any special Christmas present needs you may have. Stay in touch on the blog to find out when we are having our Christmas party this year.

One with the nature at Santa Ponca Country Club

November Days at the GAIA finca

Been busy all weekend making products for the up coming Christmas season. Trays of chocolate lip balm http://www.gaia-natural-mallorca.com/products/chocorangelipbalm.html to be presented I think with small delicious bars of fine Belgium Chocolate were on the work room tables yesterday and today the masses of heavily scented jasmine blossoms on my plants convinced me that it must be THAT time of year for Jasmine soap. Midnight Jasmine from a Secret Garden http://www.gaia-natural-mallorca.com/products/soaps/midnightjasmine.html  . I have to make enough to last us all year as I only have such an abundance of blossoms once a year; in November.. 


We always say here in Mallorca that November is our secret month as nobody actually knows just how beautiful the days are. Some mornings and some evenings my valley actually fills up with cloud and the Gaia Finca sits above the clouds… the evening light is the most beautiful it ever gets all year and we all get inspired to make lots of fabulous products for Christmas.

Inspired by a journey

In September I was lucky to take trip to Istanbul, a fabulous city on the banks of the Bosporus, a vibrant city with one foot in Europe and one in Asia.

Visiting the Bazaar on the Asian side of the Bosporus I was able to shop for essential oils, look for bottles and get inspired. The 500 year old Bazaar appears unchanged, busy and bustling full of interesting people and items. After some searching I found a small shop selling essential oils and to my delight handmade soaps. The young man there told me how he had taken over the business from his father who ran it before him. Communications were a challenge but we soon managed once we realized that we were both in the same business… the business of scents and essentials oil products. He magiced a cup of coffee grinds for me so sniff after smelling different oils in order to clear my nose from the previous scent. I came away with pure Rose and Jasmine essential oils aswell as Amber thick and golden, pungent Patchouli. The idea to create a Perfume was born.

www.turkeytravelplanner.com/go/Istanbul/.../GrandBazaar

The next stop of our trip took me to Paris and there in a Chocolate shop of the kind that makes your heart beat higher I found sugared Rose and Verveine Petals. I realized that a perfume should be a complete sensuous experience. Smell and Taste. When dabbing on your perfume you could nibble a few of your crystallised sugar petals. I returned to Mallorca to harvest autumn Rose petals and Verveine leafs sprinkle them with sugar and dried them in the sun. The result is a limited number of Turkish hand blown bottles filled with a delicious perfume, each in a box with a small bag of crystallised flower petals.

Denise Acabo Chocolaterie & Confiserie, L’Etoile D’Or. 30 Rue P. Fountaine, Paris

Hunting for antique perfume bottle in Montemart Paris

While in Istanbul my husband and I visited a historic Hamam dating back to 1557, a classic Turkish Bath except that we were able to go as a couple.   

Traditionally the Hamams have times for women and children and separate times for men. To lie under the ancient dome on hot marble slabs and slowly heat up, relax and cleanse your body was a most fabulous experience. You were then scrubbed down rigorously by two young men with lots of soap and hard gloves and intermittently washed down with bowls full of cold water. These bowls are beautifully styled and apart as a water thrower are used to carry about what you need in the Hamam… your own soap, exfoliating bar and loofha glove.

 http://www.suleymaniyehamami.com.tr/

Inspired.....Gaia bathtime travelcase

It looks like the kind of bathtime goodies that we produce at Gaia have been used in places like this for centuries to cleanse and delight the senses.

Trudi Murray

Gaia Bathtime Calle Corderia 28 Palma de Mallorca

http://www.gaia-natural-mallorca.com/