Notes from a Rose-Alchemist – A Cultural Nomad’s Journey to Myself

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2015

I held a vision: a single, natural and simple fluid for the skin—designed to nurture resilience through the healing and enlivening botanicals I instinctively gathered from the mystical forest of my childhood. A handwork of utilitarian art, enclosed in a thick green hand-blown glass flacon, created to mirror the handcrafted essence within… A fluid that could slip seamlessly into a doctor’s bag alongside a few other travel essentials.

2025

The result: Rose Concentrate – natural, simple, and skin-restoring.

Ten years on, my journey has become one of being human – staying connected to my true self and always balance-seeking nature and choosing simplicity over clutter. Perhaps it is even anti-skincare skincare.
My greatest pleasure lies in watching someone experience Rose Concentrate as life-enhancing, protective, and self-revealing—the quiet power of presence.
Crafted to be a loyal companion, Rose Concentrate leaves the skin feeling like a precious pearl: silky, luminous, and radiant—like the portrait of a classic beauty. It recalls a time when a thick glass flacon contained quiet magic, patiently blended by an apothecary’s hand.

The Art of Being Human

To feel settled in myself. To treat body and skin with love. To remain mindful of what I put myself through. Stay connected to the spirits of my childhood.

The Art of Living Today

To reconnect with what is real: Beauty, Defiance, Memory, Resilience.
To appreciate less yet expect more.
By selecting botanicals rooted in childhood memory and pairing them with apothecary-style alchemy spanning centuries, I create through instinct and handcraft—driven by a love of beautiful objects, always favouring essence over excess.

Multifunctionality

Rose Concentrate is applied through massage.
With daily nourishment, skin requires fewer products and less effort.
For a natural glow, the fluid may be smoothed from head to toe.

The Botanicals

Safeguarding Rose – flower and hips

Enlivening Cedar Nut & Resin

Healing Sea Buckthorn Fruit – rich in carotene (provitamin A), tocopherols (vitamin E), essential fatty acids, vitamins C & K

Skin regenerating Everlasting/ Immortelle/ Helichrysum 

At its heart lies Oleum Rosarum: organic Damask rose extract, white rose petals and golden hips, slowly macerated into a precious concentrate.

Fermented rose essence further clarifies, tones, and gently exfoliates the skin.

Presentation

Victorian ink glass vial evokes alchemical tradition.

Handwritten label

Sealed with stamp

Simplicity. Immaculate.

How it feels

Like silk upon the skin – a surge of soothing and reviving botanicals.
Rose Concentrate is a living fluid for living skin.

What I believe in

Skin makes the first impression, as immortalised in classic art—nothing surpasses luminous, warm skin.

Craftsmanship and creativity: handpicked, hand-formulated, hand-blended, hand-blown.

Beauty, that is both authentic and aesthetic.

The Offering

Bundles available and variable.

Bespoke.

Always accompanied by precious tips.

The Rose Concentrate: an all-in-one solution for skin in need.

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