I am found of the rose right now so I would like to propose you two little beauty formulas with this amazing flower.

The Rose Water

*500g  of  damas rose petals

*1L of pure water

1. Boil water. When the water is boiling, put out of the fire and dip the rose petals in hot water.

2.Infuse during 3/4 days and seep

3.Put it in a bottle and keep it in a cool place

Unlike the real rose water obtained by distillation, this water is short lasting and you must keep it in your fridge. This rose water can be use as a facial tonic after make-up removal.

Face Lotion

*5g of almond powder

*66.5fl oz of orange blossom water

*66.5 fl oz of rose water

*5 drops of  benzoin rinse

1.Mix all the ingredients and put them into a bottle

2.Let it soak during 15 days

3. Seep it with a paper filter  and put into a bottle

This facial tonic is great foir oily skins after make-up removal.

 

Bonjour,

En ce moment je développe une passion dévorante et inexplicable pour les roses, je vais donc vous proposer aujourd’hui les recettes de deux potions de grand-mère à la rose.

L’eau de Rose

*500g de pétales de roses de Damas

*1 L d’eau distillée

1.Faites chauffer l’eau. Dès qu’elle bout, éteignez le feu et plongez les pétales de roses dans le liquide chaud.

2. Laissez infuser 3 à 4 jours et filtrez.

3. Mettez en flacon et conservez au frais.

Contrairement à la véritable eau de rose obtenue par distillation, cette eau ne se conserve pas longtemps et il faut la mettre au réfrigérateur. Elle  peut également servir de tonique après le démaquillage.

Une lotion pour le visage

* 5 g d’amandes en poudre

* 200 cl d’eau de fleur d’oranger

*200 cl d’eau de rose

*5 gouttes de teinture de benjoin

1.Mélangez tous les ingrédients et versez dans un flacon.

2.Laissez macérer pendant 15 jours.

3.Filtrez avec un filtre en papier et mettez en flacon.

Vous utiliserez cette lotion, plutôt réservée aux peaux grasses, comme tonique après le démaquillage.

 

Chic, rich, secret

It was in the form of a variety of the briar rose that roses first appeared, some forty million years ago. The Rose Damascena, coming from a cross between the Rose Gallica, cultivated between Mesopotamia and Palestine and the Rose Phoenica or Pheonician, also cultivated in the Near East. The Rose Damascena is also called “the Damask Rose”, the crusaders having discovered it in Damascus.

Few civilizations or religions have resisted it charms for long. In the Far East only the lotus equals it. Admired by the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Chinese and Mongols…the rose has a long history of seduction.

One of its greatest devotees was probably Nero who had it everywhere. During a festival near Naples, he sent four millions sesterces in its honour: rose water gushed from the fountains, the ground and cushions were strewn with petals, they rained down from the ceilings as they had the reputation of dispelling alcoholic fumes…The guests wore them as head-dresses and garlands and at the end of the orgies, rose cake were served.

The flower of all the excesses of antiquity , it was then taken up by the church in the fourth century A.D when it became associated with the worship of the Virgin Mary…and when it then started to acquire an irreproachably good reputation.

But we owe it to the Arabs for its propagation as a perfume rose. They introduced it in the valley of dadès in Morrocco, in Bulgaria, and when forced out of this country, in Turkey. Even today, these three countries remain the principal producers of roses for the perfume industry.

In Grasse, it is the sublime Rose Centifolia which has survived. The unique climate and soil makes this an exceptional plant, without parallel, but today only anecdotal in terms of quantity.

And now let us head for the Anatolian plateau where numerous Turkish families cultivate the roses in the Isparta region.  A characteristic landscape, wild and austere, dotted with fields of roses and cherry trees. A beautiful blend of colours and odours!

In Turkey they are grown domestically. Picking is prickly, as this beauty does not give itself up easily.

It is fierce , its thorns are small but numerous. it seems that it has retained its distant origins in its wild character.

The fairly high bushes are not sparing in their blossoms and every morning during several weeks the roses offer themselves to the pickers.

The sacks, swollen with the harvest are then taken to the collectors who supply the factories where they are distilled or extracted. A lot of flowers are needed to produce rosewater, essential oils, concrete and absolute. For one kilogram of absolute, the perfume maker’s true diamond, one needs 750kg of flowers. And the essential oil obtained by distillation needs even more…

The olfactory sophistication of the rose is indeed impressive. Its chemical make up is complex and renders it inimitable, no less than 300 compounds and only traces of some, but which nevertheless have a specific effect on its fragrances. It offers to the creativity of noses the possibility of infinite transformations. Each time it gives different tonalities, whether the harmony is floral, woody, amber, spiced…It is the incontestable queen of the palette of the perfume maker, his muse.

Either in strenght or finesse, the rose possesses a universal olfactory language. Quintessence of feminity, it embodies chic elegance and always a secret aspect…Never revealing itself, the thorns for protection and this gift of disguise to cloud the issue.

An exception perhaps with patchouli. Together they form the perfect couple. It cats as an illumination and only whith it does the rose reveal its true nature.

Scented plants too have their great love stories…

You can smell an amazing spicy rose in our perfume 1876, Mata hari.

 

C’est sous la forme d’une variété d’églantine que les roses sont apparues sur terre, il y a quelques quarante millions d’années. La rose Damascena provient d’un croisement entre la rose Gallica , cultivée très anciennement entre la Mésopotamie et la Palestine, et la rose Phoenica ou phénicienne, également cultivée au Proche-Orient. La rose Damascena est appelée aussi “Rose de Damas”, les croisés l’ayant découverte dans cette ville.

Peu de civilisations ou de religions purent résister longtemps à son charme. En Extrême-Orient, elle n’a d’égal que le lotus. Adulée par les Grecs, les Romains, les Perses, les Chinois, les Mongols…, la rose a une longue carrière de séductrice.

Un de ses plus grands adorateurs fut probablement Néron, qui en arrosait tous ses appartements. Lors d’une fête près de Naples, il dépensa en son honneur quatre millions de sesterces : l’eau de rose jaillissait des fontaines; le sol, les coussins étaient jonchés de pétales de roses, il en pleuvait des plafonds, car elle avait la réputation de dissiper les vapeurs d’alcool…Les convives portaient les fleurs en couronne et en colliers, et à la fin des orgies on servait des gâteaux de roses.

Fleur de tous les excès dans l’Antiquité, elle a été récupérée au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ par l’Eglise qui l’associa au culte de la Vierge Marie…et lui rebatit ainsi une réputation irréprochable.

Mais c’est aux Arabes que l’on doit la propagation de la rose au parfum. Ils l’auraient introduite dans la vallée de Dadès au Maroc, en Bulgarie, puis chassés de ce pays, en Turquie. Actuellement ces trois pays restent les principaux producteurs de roses à destination de la parfumerie.

A Grasse, il subsiste bien sûr la sublime Rose Centifolia. Le climat et son terroir unique font de cette rose un cru exceptionnel, sans équivalent, mais aujourd’hui anecdotique en termes de quantité.

Cap sur le plateau anatolien où de nombreuses familles turques cultivent des roses dans la région d’Isparta. Paysages de caractère, sauvages et austères, émaillés de champs de roses, ils hébergent aussi des cerisiers. Belle symbiose de couleurs et d’odeurs!

En Turquie, la culture est familiale. Sa cueillette est piquante, car la belle ne se laisse pas facilement capturer. Ses épines sont petites mais nombreuses. Il semble bien qu’elle ait conservé de ses origines lointaines un caractère encore sauvage.

Les buissons, assez hauts, ne sont pas avares de fleurs et chaque matin, pendant plusieurs semaines, les roses s’offrent aux ceuilleurs.

Les sacs gonflés par la récolte sont ensuite apportés aux collecteurs qui fourniront les usines où elles sont distillées ou extraites. Pour obtenir une eau de rose, huile essentielle, concrète  et absolu, il faut beaucoup de fleurs, 750 kilogrammes pour un seul kilogramme d’absolu, véritable diamant du parfumeur. Et l’huile essentielle obtenue par distillation en exige encore davantage.

La sophistication olfactive de la rose est en effet impressionnante.  Sa chimie est complexe et la rend inimitable, pas moins de 300 composants dont certains à l’état de traces, mais qui ont pourtant une incidence déterminante sur sa fragrance. Elle offre à la créativité des nez des possibilités de transformations infinies. Elle donne à chaque fois des tonalités différentes, que les accords soient floraux, boisés, ambrés, épicés…C’est la reine incontestée de la palette du parfumeur, sa muse.

Toute en puissance et en finesse, la rose possède un langage olfactif universel. Quintessence de la féminité, elle incarne le chic et l’élégance, et toujours cette part de secret…Ne jamais se dévoiler, des épines pour se protéger et ce don de se grimer à l’infini pour brouiller les pistes.

Une exception peut-être avec le patchouli. Avec lui, elle forme un couple parfait. Il agit sur elle comme un révélateur et, avec lui seulement, elle nous livre sa vraie nature.

Retrouvez une sublime rose épicée dans notre parfum 1876  Mata Hari.

 

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern and directed by Hopper, about two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South. It stars Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson and was produced by Fonda. Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the late sixties.

As a landmark counterculture film  and a “touchstone for a generation” that “captured the national imagination”, Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.

The protagonists are two bikers: Wyatt, nicknamed ‘Captain America’ (Fonda), and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper have said that these characters’ names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat.

After smuggling drugs from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their contraband to a man (played by Phil Spector) in a Rolls-Royce. With the money from the sale stuffed into the Stars&Stripes-adorned fuel tank of Wyatt’s California style chopper, they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana in time for Mardi Gras.

During their trip they pick up a hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) and agree to take him to his commune. An odd part to the commune scene is that here are studio sets of Native American tipis in the background as they go up the canyon for swimming, obviously a faux pas. They stay for a few days. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with hippies from the city finding it difficult to grow their own crops. One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda’s four-year-old daughter Bridget. At one point the bikers witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a communard: A chance “to make a stand,” and to plant “simple food, for a simple taste.” The commune is also host to a traveling theater group that “sings for its supper” (performs for food). The notion of “free love” appears to be practiced, with two women seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking communard, and who then turn their attention to Wyatt and Billy. As Wyatt and Billy leave, the hitch-hiker (known only as “Stranger on highway” in the credits) gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with “the right people.”

While jokingly riding along with a parade in a small town, the pair are arrested by the local authorities for “parading without a permit.” In jail, they befriend alcoholic ACLU lawyer George Hanson (played by Jack Nicholson). George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a square, George is reluctant to try the marijuana (”It leads to harder stuff”), but he quickly relents.

In the middle of the night, the local men return and brutally beat the trio while they sleep. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George is killed by a machete strike to the neck. Wyatt and Billy wrap George up in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his parents.

They continue to New Orleans and find the brothel which had been recommended by George. Taking two prostitutes, Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil), with them, Wyatt and Billy decide to go outside where the Mardi Gras is going on. They wander the parade-filled streets of New Orleans. They end up in a cemetery, where all four ingest LSD. They all experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer, represented through quick edits, sound effects and over-exposed film.

In the end, though Billy remains oblivious, Wyatt declares: “You know Billy, we blew it.” Wyatt realizes that their search for freedom, while financially successful, was a spiritual failure. The next morning, the two are continuing their trip to Florida (where they hope to retire wealthy) when two rednecks in a pickup truck spot them, and decide to “scare the hell out of them” with their shotgun. As they pull alongside Billy and insult him, Billy sticks his middle finger up at them. In response, one of the men fires the shotgun at Billy and seriously wounds him, perhaps by accident. Wyatt immediately turns around to see his friend crashed and bleeding on the side of the road. As Wyatt goes for help, one of the rednecks fires at him as he speeds by the pickup. The shot hits the gas tank of Wyatt’s bike, causing it to explode. The explosion not only kills Wyatt, but also destroys the money - which was what they had staked their life on. From the flaming bike on the side of the road, the camera ascends towards the sky, and the duo’s journey “looking for America” ends once and for all.

During the test shooting, Hopper, legendary at the time for his drug excesses and paranoia, tyrannized the crew so much that everyone quit. At one point he entered into a physical confrontation with photographer Barry Feinstein, who was one of the camera operators for the shoot. After the turmoil in New Orleans, Hopper and Fonda decided to assemble a proper crew for the rest of the film.

According to Terry Southern’s biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern’s friend, actor Rip Torn. When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the “rednecks” he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South. Torn, a Texan, took exception to some of Hopper’s remarks, and the two almost came to blows, as a result of which Torn withdrew from the project and had to be replaced by Jack Nicholson. In 1994, Hopper was interviewed about Easy Rider by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, and during the interview, he alleged that Torn had pulled a knife on him during the altercation, prompting Torn to successfully sue Hopper for defamation.

The hippie commune had to be recreated from pictures and shot near Santa Monica, California overlooking Malibu Canyon, since the New Buffalo commune near Taos in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico did not permit shooting there.

Most of the film is shot outside with natural lighting. While this can be attributed to the film being a road movie, at the time Hopper said all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because “God is a great gaffer.” The production used two five-ton trucks, one for the equipment and one for the motorcycles, with the cast and crew in a motor home. One of the locations was Monument Valley.

The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana. The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals. In order to incite more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them to play the scene as if Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped a girl outside of town. The scene in which both Captain America and Billy were shot was filmed on Highway 105 North just outside of Krotz Spring, Louisiana, and the two men in the scene were Krotz Springs locals.

While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda’s mother (who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old) and ask her why she left him. Although Fonda was reluctant, he eventually complied. Later on, he used this scene as leverage to persuade Bob Dylan to allow the use of “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”.

Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22 the film did not have a U.S. premiere until July of 1969, after having won an award at the Cannes film festival in May. The delay was partially due to a protracted editing process. One of Hopper’s proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey (film). From his extensive use of the “flash-forward” narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene, only one flash-forward survives in the final edit, when Wyatt in the New Orleans brothel has a premonition of the final scene. At the request of Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, Henry Jaglom was brought in to edit the film into its current form, with Hopper effectively removed from the project. Upon seeing the final cut, Hopper was extremely pleased, claiming that Jaglom had crafted the film the way Hopper had originally intended. Despite the large part he played in shaping the film, Jaglom only received credit as an “Editorial Consultant.”