Where does the scent of lavender take you? To a Southwest sunset? To a field where you sit and feast on the beauty around you? To the comfort of a home that smelled richly of it? To the fragrance of a person you love?
Where does the scent of lavender take you? To a Southwest sunset? To a field where you sit and feast on the beauty around you? To the comfort of a home that smelled richly of it? To the fragrance of a person you love?
You might not be able to put a finger on where exactly a smell will take your thoughts, but that is what scents do. They stir our memories of the past and our hopes for the future, both of which feel like nostalgia, like a longing for home.
The Los Poblanos Ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has a storied past full of culture and farming and beauty. Home to an inn, a cultural retreat, and a strong heritage of experimental and organic farming, Los Poblanos began harvesting lavender on the ranch in 1999 for the purpose of crafting spa products. The dry climate that breathes life into the fertile soil of the ranch is ideal for the growing of lavender, the result of which is conscientiously made products that bring the scent of lavender to people around the country. Whether soap, lotion, or salve, the fragrance will take you somewhere very good.
Perhaps most of the people who breathe in the smell of Los Poblanos lavender have never been to the place it came from. Perhaps they’ve never seen the ranch beneath the rising sun or walked through the purple fields. But that may be the place they are transported to all the same. Maybe that’s what a scent is for: to take our thoughts to a home we’ve never actually been to. -Jonathan Allston
(Photos of Los Poblanos lavender fields and Los Poblanos silos by Josh Hailey Studio.)
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