Your Second Family

There’s the family you’re born into and the family you create. Your close friends, your second family, have been shown to play a greater role in the length & quality of your life.

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Emily L'Ami
Friendship is the New Self-Care

If you want to feel calmer, healthier & happier look no further than the miracle cure-all of friendship. Time & again studies show that spending time with friends one of the most important forms of self-care you can practice.

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Emily L'Ami
Sustainable Scent

Scent's invisibility means we often don't think about its role in environmental sustainability. But given we use fragranced products around 20 to 30 times a day it's helpful to understand the basics of the life-cycle of scent.

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Emily L'Ami
A Poem for Our Times

Poems are mini force-fields, the concentrated energy of words refined to their very essence. This poem is a reminder of the beauty & mystery of life, a balm to return to over & over.

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Emily L'Ami
Nature Worship

The first religion was the religion of nature. Indigenous cultures from the New Zealand Maori to the Native American Indian recognize & worship the spirit in all things, a practice known as animism.

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Emily L'Ami
The Big Unwind - 2019

It's time to relax, reflect & reconnect, but how? In our second-annual installment of The Big Unwind, we bring you a few of our favorite things to read, listen to, watch & eat, to help you ease into the holidays & inspire your new year ahead

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Emily L'Ami
The Beauty Pattern

All of us, no matter what age or culture, share a sense of physical beauty. That's because the human perception of what makes something beautiful is hardwired.

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Emily L'Ami
The Meaning of Home

A place, a feeling, your own body & mind - what is home to you? The question 'what makes a home?' has been a constant theme for us this year. Here's a look at a few families forging their own ideas of home in the hope of a life well lived.

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Emily L'Ami
Welcome to the new Bodha

A year ago we started imagining how we could better bring to life the 'come back to yourself' feeling. And today, after five years in business, we'd like to welcome to you to the result, our new Bodha look.

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Emily L'Ami
The Incense Island

Incense is the original & most ancient form of perfume. It’s also where Bodha began & this week we return to Japan's 'incense island' to meet with generations of makers.

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Emily L'Ami
How to Eat

We all know there's piles of dogma, rules, theories & advice around eating. But the majority of it, fueled by an industry trying to sell you more food, focuses on what we eat, rather than how we eat.

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Emily L'Ami
Cooking With Scent

In preparation for our scent dinner we've been testing out some recipes using ingredients from the perfumers' organ. These little scent additions are a lovely way to add a layer of complexity to simple dishes.

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Emily L'Ami