How to Cultivate the Signature Taste

A gentle guide towards cultivating the scent you are remembered for even once you leave the room.

By Jan Frans Eliaerts (Dutch; 1761 - 1848)

“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for.”

— Toni Morrison, from The Paris Review Podcast

Women of all ages and backgrounds often reach out to me to express how validated and affirmed they feel in their Femininity and natural inclinations from reading my texts. They also often admit that their desire for Beauty, to create it and surround themselves with it, was something they denied themselves since the general culture sees it as shallow and superficial. If they are in spiritual circles, then such circles would often view cultivation of Beauty as a mundane distraction or label it “materialistic.”