Inside Scent: Agost

Bravanariz Inside Scents bring the aromas of coastal Catalonia, Spain to your home, so you can keep up with the cycles of nature throughout the year and enjoy its wonders. One fragrance for each season to fill your house or your working place with the changing scents of the wild. Just like eating seasonal goods, seasonal smelling also benefits us — tuning our inner cycles with those of nature. Because after all, we are nature. 

Agost (“August” in Catalan) takes you to the hot Mediterranean coast in summer. Like walking under the sun, after a swim in the sea, flanked by cypresses and with a mint and fennel branch hanging from your lips.

Agost/Summer:
Summer, in the Mediterranean, is a hard and forceful season. Only the most rugged and austere plants survive the tyranny of an omnipresent sun. The heat affects our vital signs, and despite the fact that everything calls for rest, in the countryside, it is the time of year with the most work. It is the time to reap everything sown, intense days from sunrise to sunset. But it is the time, also of the reward.

Plants & benefits:
Fennel/Hinojo (Foeniculum vulgare), Mint/ Menta (Mentha piperita), Peppermint/ Hierbabuena (Mentha spicata): These plants, of a humility and resistance without equal, refresh and sweeten our evenings, calming irritation and awakening our appetite.

Lavender /Lavanda (Lavandula augustifolia): Relaxes and softens. Lavender makes everything easier and more bearable.

Rosemary /Romero (Rosmarinus officinalis): Activate our brain, pulling us out of the reverie of those hot summer afternoons.

Cypress / Ciprés (Cupressus): Do to his refreshing character and balsamic note, it just makes things easier, and takes us directly to the summers of the Empordà and the Mediterranean basin.

Anís (Pimpinella anisum)

Rockrose /Jara (Cistus ladanifer)

Pine /Pino (Pinus halepensis)

Uses:
The Inside Scents, apart from having a lower concentration of essence and alcoholic graduation, do not differ in any way from the other Bravanariz fragrances. The high quality of its raw materials (organic molasses alcohol, 100% natural essential oils, tinctures and hydrolates) is exactly the same, so you can use them perfectly as a perfume (subtler, if you want), spraying it on your skin and hair. To change the vibes of a space, you can spray it in the air, but for greater permanence it is advisable to do it on fabrics (curtains, carpets, upholstery) as long as you respect the minimum 25cm (9,8 in) distance to avoid possible stains. You can also spray it on clothing items such as scarves or coats to dress up with the scents of each season.