IN FIORE, 868 Post Street, San Francisco, CA (2025)

08/30/2025

"I set out to create a natural lip treatment with advanced technology—and solved one of beauty's biggest formulation challenges." - Julie Elliott.

When I set out to create Veloutée Complexe, I wasn't thinking about gloss or shine—I was thinking about treatment.

I wanted something I could apply to the lips and lip line that would absorb fully—leaving no residue—so I could follow with color if I wanted to. I wanted it to address the issues at the root: smoothing the lips, fine lines, loss of firmness, and how the delicate lip tissue is often the first to reveal stress, age, and environmental damage.

As a formulator, I challenged myself: Could I create a natural product with truly advanced technology?

The answer was yes—and Veloutée Complexe is proof.

One of the biggest frustrations in natural formulary is stability—how to create a product with high-performance botanicals that remains effective, elegant, and consistent over time.

We solved it. Veloutée Complexe is 99.13% natural origin according to ISO standards, preservative-free, and protected by plant-derived antioxidants, all while maintaining shelf-stability.

How It Works
Veloutée is built around actives that nourish the lips and communicate with the skin:

DPHP Collagen Amino Acids—An oil-soluble form of hydroxyproline that signals the skin to repair its support structures, visibly reducing fine lines.

Antioxidant Lipids—Jojoba, milk thistle, squalane, sunflower, and vitamin E to replenish the barrier and maintain elasticity.

Green Tea Polyphenols (EGCG)—20x more potent than vitamin E in neutralizing free radicals, providing photoprotection and energy to aged cells.

Ginseng + Pink Peppercorn + Rosemary—Microcirculatory actives that revitalize tissue and restore vitality.

08/24/2025

The Science Behind the Quantum Bridge

Modern neuroscience helps explain why scent is such a powerful tool for invocation and embodiment:

1. Scent is the only sense that bypasses the brain’s relay station (the thalamus) and goes straight to the limbic system—where emotion, memory, and regulation live.
— Energetic translation: Scent is non-linear. It instantly activates emotional and somatic memory, making it a bridge to the unconscious and the future self.

2. Olfactory memories are more emotionally charged and longer-lasting than visual or verbal ones, because of their direct connection to the hippocampus.
— Energetic translation: Anchoring a future vision with scent encodes it into body memory, collapsing the gap between vision and embodiment.

3. Strong, repeated sensory-emotional pairings create neuroplasticity—“neurons that fire together wire together.”
— Energetic translation: With invocation or visualization, scent becomes a neuro-associative anchor, entraining your nervous system to a new timeline.

4. Quantum research suggests we may perceive smell through vibrational resonance, not just molecular shape.
— Energetic translation: If scent is vibrational, then inhaling fragrance is also energetic alignment—linking you with quantum potentials like a future self.

08/22/2025

The olfactory system is unlike any other sensory pathway. When you inhale a scent, it travels directly to the limbic brain—bypassing thought and logic. This part of the brain governs memory, emotion, and identity. It is ancient, primal, and deeply rooted in the body.

When you smell something it is processed in a non-linear field, interacting with every version of you—past, present, and future. This is what makes olfaction a quantum tool and with conscious use scent becomes a bridge between timelines.

Pairing a fragrance with a future vision creates a neuro-associative anchor. It’s the same mechanism athletes use to rehearse peak performance and the same way trauma is stored—except here, the process is intentional. Through repetition, the scent becomes a harmonic key, unlocking the frequency of your becoming.

You’re not imagining the future—you’re feeling it through the body. A formulation designed to reflect the tone of your future self invites that frequency into the now. Scent collapses time into embodiment.

The nervous system entrains to familiar sensations and when you associate a fragrance with qualities like clarity, strength, safety, or expansion, your body begins to recognize those states as lived realities. It stops striving and starts inhabiting.

Scent is soul language. It speaks directly to the unconscious and rewrites the myth you live by. Paired with word, movement, or breath, it becomes a living script etched into your being—cellular memory of what is already true.

08/14/2025

Hannsjörg Voth, Golden Spiral

Hannsjörg Voth’s Golden Spiral (in German, Goldene Spirale) is a monumental land‑art installation on the Marha Plain in southeastern Morocco. Part of his trilogy of cosmic works—including Himmelstreppe (“Stairway to Heaven”) and Stadt des Orion (“City of Orion”)—it was conceived and built between the early 1990s and mid‑1990s

Voth intended the work as both aesthetic and cosmic. The spiral is oriented in relation to the sky, with a well dug at its center in which a small boat once floated—a poetic gesture linking earth and celestial journey. It is designed to be “practicable” art—walkable, immersive, and experiential—inviting visitors to physically engage with its curves and space.

08/12/2025

"I don’t say this lightly: I feel like I’m getting younger. And others have said the same. This isn’t magic. It’s alignment." —Julie

We can thank melanin.

Melanin, a pigment, serves as a quantum biological interface, a type of photonic battery that captures and converts sunlight into usable energy for the body.

It absorbs both UV and infrared light, especially from natural sunlight. Contrary to the mainstream narrative that melanin simply blocks UV rays, it actually stores and converts this light into bioavailable energy.

This energy fuels mitochondrial function—particularly in the skin, brain, and eyes.

When you reset melanin, you restore its original role as a conductor of light, enabling your body to use sunlight more efficiently for healing and regeneration.

Aging, at its core, is a reflection of mitochondrial decline.

But when melanin is healthy and responsive, mitochondrial efficiency improves, cellular waste decreases, and regeneration accelerates—especially in the skin, fascia, and nervous system.

This mitochondrial recharging creates that unmistakable felt sense of vitality—and the visible signs of youth.

Melanin also interfaces with structured (exclusion zone) water inside your cells. Together, they create a state of quantum coherence—enhancing the flow of biophotons and electrons, and syncing circadian rhythms.

This is why sunrise and sunset light leave you feeling clearer, calmer, and more radiant.

Yes, diet plays a role. But when melanin is reset and fully functioning:
- Your skin becomes more hydrated and oxygenated.
- Hormonal rhythms come back into balance.
- Inflammation begins to clear.
- Cellular regeneration accelerates.

You are, quite literally, reversing mitochondrial age and restoring light-driven processes in the body, and skin—your visible nervous system.

08/10/2025

Water is a carrier of consciousness, a living medium that feels, remembers, and responds. In its fluidity, water mirrors the unseen movements of thought, feeling, and spirit. It listens. It holds memory in structure, imprints in pattern, and transmits intention across realms. Whether coursing through rivers, cells, or the interstitial spaces of our fascia, water is the intelligence that unites all life through vibration. When we attune to water— as hydration, as a sacred messenger—we begin to sense its deeper role: as a bridge between matter and spirit, form and formlessness. In every drop, the potential for coherence, healing, and revelation exists.

08/09/2025

In the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the leaf is seen as the feeling organ of the plant—a living gesture of sensitivity, openness, and relationship. While the root anchors and the flower spiritualizes, it is the leaf that reaches outward into the world, unfurling itself to light, warmth, and air. The leaf does not take; it receives. It breathes and transpires, offering itself in a continual act of communion with its environment. In this, Steiner recognized the leaves as embodying the plant’s capacity for feeling—its ability to perceive, to respond, and to harmonize with the cosmos.
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When we sit with a plant and observe its leaves—not just their form but their movement, their texture, their subtle orientation—we are being felt as much as we are observing. The leaves extend toward us like hands in soft invitation. They are the bridge between the interiority of the plant and the outer world, much like our own emotional body reaches out to connect, to be touched, and to belong. In Steiner’s view, to work with the leaves of a plant—whether through whole plant medicine, scent, or the subtle act of contemplation—is to engage with its feeling nature. It is an act of empathy, a meeting of subtle bodies across species, and a reminder that we are not alone in our capacity to sense and be moved.

08/03/2025

Scents to Stay Calm Amidst Chaos
Scent is one of our most profound senses—deeply tied to memory, emotion, and spiritual awareness. Essential oils and natural aromas carry vibrational intelligence that interacts with our energy field, shifting our state of being.

When we inhale a carefully chosen scent, we connect with the soul of the plant it came from. This creates an energetic resonance that brings us back to center—no matter how chaotic the world feels. Grounding oils like Vetiver or Patchouli root us into the earth’s energy, while uplifting ones like Bergamot or Frankincense lift the spirit, offering clarity amidst confusion.

The ritual of applying or inhaling scent is a sacred pause. A moment of mindfulness. It reminds us to breathe, to return to our inner calm, and to engage with the world from a place of rooted awareness.

Self-care is the sacred act of grounding.
When approached through a psychospiritual lens, self-care becomes devotion—an anchoring practice that restores the body, soothes the mind, and nourishes the soul. Body balms, meditative baths, or simply pausing to anoint yourself with a grounding oil can cleanse the energetic residue of the day.

The truth is: we can be in the world, but not of it.
Scent is a gateway to that place of inner stillness.

Our favorite blends for staying calm amidst chaos:
• Shevanti (Ylang Ylang, Patchouli): Calms the mind and grounds the spirit through warm, earthy support for the body’s center.
• Kashmir (Sandalwood): Strengthens emotional resilience and helps you stay centered under pressure.
• Tangiers (Lemongrass): Restores vitality and shields the energetic field from external stressors.

07/30/2025

Scent, the Nervous System, and Consciousness

Scent operates as a wave of information, a quantum transmission that moves beyond linear pathways. It engages the field of consciousness directly, acting as a carrier for memory, frequency, and archetypal intelligence.

When we perceive scent, we’re receiving information that bypasses logic and enters the limbic system—the center of emotion and instinct. But on a bioenergetic level, scent also resonates with the body’s electromagnetic field, tuning us into coherence and subtle communication.

This is why scent can feel like a presence—something arriving, guiding, revealing. It moves through our biology and energy, activating insight, memory, and alignment.

When used with intention, scent becomes a conduit. It supports presence, regulates the nervous system, and opens access to the multidimensional self, without effort, through resonance.

07/30/2025

Scent, the Nervous System, and Consciousness

Scent operates as a wave of information, a quantum transmission that moves beyond linear pathways. It engages the field of consciousness directly, acting as a carrier for memory, frequency, and archetypal intelligence.

When we perceive scent, we’re receiving information that bypasses logic and enters the limbic system—the center of emotion and instinct. But on a bioenergetic level, scent also resonates with the body’s electromagnetic field, tuning us into coherence and subtle communication.

This is why scent can feel like a presence—something arriving, guiding, revealing. It moves through our biology and energy, activating insight, memory, and alignment.

When used with intention, scent becomes a conduit. It supports presence, regulates the nervous system, and opens access to the multidimensional self, without effort, through resonance.

07/27/2025

In our fast-paced world, stress has become a constant adversary for many, manifesting physically and mentally in ways that can diminish our quality of life. Amidst the search for solace, an ancient practice has resurfaced, offering a serene escape: Neutral Bathing. This therapeutic tradition, rooted in the principles of hydrotherapy, might just be the antidote to the stress epidemic of our times.

Neutral Bathing involves immersing oneself in water at a temperature closely mirroring that of the human body, typically around 34 to 37 degrees Celsius (93 to 98 degrees Fahrenheit). Unlike hot baths that stimulate circulation and cold plunges that invigorate the body, Neutral Bathing aims to blur the boundaries between the body and its aquatic surroundings, minimizing sensory stimulation and fostering a state of deep relaxation.

The magic of Neutral Bathing lies in its simplicity. By maintaining water temperature at near body heat, the practice minimizes the body's need to regulate its internal temperature. This gentle approach allows the autonomic nervous system, which controls our fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest responses, to find equilibrium. The result? A profound sense of calmness and reduced stress levels.

07/25/2025

Light is a language. And your skin knows how to speak it.
I live in the tropics, where the midday sun is nearly vertical—what many would consider unforgiving. And yet, it has become one of my most powerful allies in rejuvenation and skin vitality.

This isn't about getting a tan. It's about entering into an intelligent relationship with sunlight—approaching it as medicine, not a menace.

Sunlight does more than activate vitamin D—it plays a vital role in:

• Enhancing mitochondrial function, which supports cellular energy metabolism and resilience.
• Improving skin repair and renewal through nitric oxide release and collagen synthesis.
• Optimizing hormonal balance by synchronizing circadian rhythms via light exposure to the skin and eyes.

In my experience, sunlight has improved not only my skin but also my metabolism and overall vitality.

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