The path to self-love, acceptance of one's uniqueness
First revelation: becoming a perfumer
Daughter and granddaughter of a farmer, I grew up in the countryside raised by caring parents, a loving grandmother, by the river and a spring. I remember my grandmother’s garden: a garden of medicinal herbs and old roses.
Just 20 meters from this garden, a wonderful fountain, with the strange name of Saint Genulphe, sheltered a spring water basin known since the Celts. After school, by my grandmother and the spring, I found a loving energy that nourished me.
She was my first revelation: to be a perfumer to combine the energy and essence of plants, and to offer a little magic to the world.
“The robin watches over me while I write; I like to imagine it as my grandmother always by my side.”
This dream of becoming a perfumer led me to study chemistry, then cosmetics and perfume in Versailles. My years of learning about the business world then began: 10 years spent within a major luxury industry house, Parfums Givenchy. There, I learned all the ins and outs of the profession: the technical skills, project management, and above all, human relationships without which life would be meaningless. Wonderful people supported me in my personal and professional growth.
I met the company’s expectations: launching new products with a focus on cost efficiency and deadlines. Yet, an inner voice questioned whether this path truly matched my original aspiration.
I had the joy of becoming a mother twice. A joy somewhat overshadowed by postpartum depression, which is so little known to the general public. My only haven of peace was the plants and flowers in my garden.
To turn a page, we exchanged the turmoil for nature: destination La Rochelle.
I joined a large organic cosmetics laboratory, Léa Nature, where meaning and ecological awareness guided our actions. 13 years of happiness with a very committed human team.
Passionate about my profession once again, I threw myself into it body and soul. The body failed. This was followed by a long period of hospitalization, unable to walk, read, or write... but with the return of the inner voice to remind me of my vocation as a perfumer.
Upon my recovery, I brushed aside my fear of not having touched fragrant extracts since school. Message received. Message understood.
So I set up my perfume organ at home, in the attic, and began spending time with plants and their most concentrated essences: essential oils. I had lost hearing in one ear, but my sense of smell had intensified. I remember how the arrival of each new sample was a joy for me, how alive I felt in front of this makeshift organ.
It was the rose that taught me my first fragrance; I imagined something soft, floral, and powdery.
The first perfume line, "Les Jardins d’Aimée," was launched in 2015, made with organic alcohol and demineralized water.
Second and third revelation: the elements of water and energy
The second revelation came at the spring in 2015: incorporating spring water into the perfumes.
I had to think outside the box and move beyond the traditional particle-based view of matter.
But where did this inspiring inner voice come from?
Accepting the principle of energy. The third revelation
After that, everything accelerated; I happened to meet a druid at the Carnac alignments in Brittany, who taught me how to use a pendulum.
I began to feel and accept the principle of energy.
Why some places tired me, others refreshed me, and to understand the vibrational rate, vital energy, and the vibration of plants, vegetables, humans, and water.
Another world was coming to me: the world of energy, of the invisible.
I was trained as a traditional chemist, of course I had heard of quantum physics and energy, but only in a very distant way. I was beginning to finally accept the existence of something else, invisible to the naked eye: the world of the invisible, the energies of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the elements that we are all made of.
The practice of yoga and meditation over all these years has supported me on this path. In addition, practicing exercises with the pendulum allowed me to accept the principle of energy within my body.
Gradually, I learned to compose less with my mind and more with my heart: letting the plants reveal their specific energy and essence to me, which I faithfully translated into the fragrance I created.
For example, myrrh and incense, two mythical materials that reveal the complexity and richness of our personality. It is the feminine and the masculine, the yin and the yang at a very high vibrational rate that allow us to sense the subtle, to listen to our soul, to the divine within us.
Accepting this originality is the path to healing for me: that of self-love.
We all have something unique to offer the world, our soul knows it, we often have this connection until the age of 7, then we forget it. The path of transformation towards self-love, for me, was long and difficult but I traveled it to the destination. Thanks to the magic of an inner voice that revealed to me my olfactory qualities and all my human potential, which are the foundations of Aimée de Mars.
Water is also another vector, of purification, of healing. I am very lucky to live near the source where I sometimes bathe. It purifies me, I feel its energy: strength and gentleness, power and fluidity.