Inside the Juniper Ridge Workshop
We are the only company in the world harvesting, distilling and formulating natural fragrances. A hundred years ago, every perfume house in Paris made perfume this way. But when cheap, petroleum-based synthetic scents appeared in the 1960's, the perfume industry abandoned the techniques and ingredients they’d used for thousands of years and stopped making real fragrance. At Juniper Ridge, we still do it the old way. We have two, big doors on either side of our warehouse - the plants come in one door and leave, as products, through the other. Take a tour of some of the steps to making our products in the images below.
Wildharvesting in the mountains
Plant trimmings on the workshop floor
Steam distillation fragrance extraction
Sage that has been run through the still
Smoke infusion in a limited number of fragrance blends
Fragrance blend formulation
Trail Crew Soap production
Cabin Spray bottling
Modern Farmer posted this excellent interview with Juniper Ridge founder Hall Newbegin, check out an excerpt below, and be sure to visit their site to read the full interview:
If you’ve ever wanted to experience hiking in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, you could book a plane ticket and lay down some cash at your nearest REI. Or, you could grab the Yuba River Cabin Spray from Bay Area wildcrafting fragrance company Juniper Ridge, a company that has carved out its own niche as a purveyor of all-foraged scents meant to evoke very specific bits of wilderness. Juniper Ridge doesn’t just want to fill your space with the smell of “the outdoors,” they want to transport the specific sensation of, say, meandering through Big Sur or being deep in the Cascades — via scent. Complete interview >>
Complex Magazine has a new feature with our Campfire Incense, be sure to check it out.
