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Sharing and spreading our passion for nature and its scents has always been one of the main driving forces behind the project. Beyond our 100% natural fragrances, Bravanariz has always designed olfactory experiences to reconnect with nature and awaken our sense of smell. From Olfactory Walks to understand, by smelling, the aromatic particularities of our landscapes and spend a pleasant morning surrounded by nature, to full-day Intensive Olfactory Capture Workshop, to participate in the creative process that makes our creations unique. In addition to our specialised courses in natural perfumery with some of the most outstanding professionals in the sector, we also offer a wide range of Retreat-Workshops designed to reconnect with nature through art and the five senses and learn to relate to it from a more empathetic and creative perspective.
Smell is, without a doubt, a powerful tool of knowledge and pleasure and an unbeatable vehicle to relate, in an intimate way, with our environment. For us, learning while enjoying is a non-negotiable premise, which is why sensuality and practice have a clear protagonist role in our experiences, where the five senses play a fundamental role. Touching, listening, tasting, contemplating (which is not the same as looking) and above all, sniffing. Sniffing with curiosity and eagerness. All this turns our activities into truly transformative experiences that help us to find new ways of connecting with ourselves, with others and with our environment.
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with a dream stay at our farm
A morning with us can be enough to change the way you relate to your surroundings. Using smell as a tool, we will discover the aromatic treasures of our landscapes. You will learn about the plants that give a place its olfactory personality and which, with their properties, offer us exactly what we need in each season of the year. Then, in our workshop, you will smell the raw materials and natural perfumes obtained from them, understanding the artisanal processes necessary to extract all their magic.
A whole day at Mas Flaquer participating in the artisanal processes of creation of raw materials and perfumes that we use in Bravanariz. From the intimate encounter with the plant in its natural environment and its correct harvesting, following our Sustainable Harvesting Protocol guidelines, through the distillation and creation of tinctures, to decanting and bottling.
This includes a delicious biodynamic lunch with products from the estate (vegetables from our garden, honey, olive oil, pestos, chutneys and jams according to the season) and a tasting of local wines. Not only will you smell the landscape and capture its wild aroma, but you will eat and drink it too. You will return home, wiser, happier, connected, naturally scented and made into landscape.
The ultimate goal in the creation of all our workshops is to promote a new way of relating to nature, whether through perfumery or any other artistic and creative form.
They are designed to give you a truly immersive experience, awakening all your senses. For us, learning must go hand in hand with enjoyment and pleasure at all times. That is why we give a lot of importance to things that are vital to us, such as good food, beauty in all its forms (from the attention to design to the smallest detail when setting the table), time (quality of time) and, above all, the humanity and kindness of all the people who work to make it possible.
We put special emphasis on the practice. We like to do things. First, there is the experience, the physical experience from which then comes the theory. It is when you have experienced something and have been able to become intimate with the object of your study that the enriching questions arise. It is then that the theory can help us to consolidate the knowledge we have acquired through practice, and to develop our knowledge of the subject.
We like the workshop-retreat idea. Spending a few days in a privileged natural environment, isolated from our busy lives, sharing time and space with a group of curious and knowledge-hungry people gives the course an unusual intensity and level of concentration and attention.
BEE BRAVE is a Bravanariz project aimed at promoting the biodiversity of our natural environments.
Conceived and financed by BRAVANARIZ, it is carried out in collaboration with various actors, both private (farm owners, beekeepers, scientists) as well as landscape protection associations.
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MEL is our first solid perfume and the result of a long collaboration with bees, our winged harvest companions. Made from organic beeswax (from the hives installed in our Bee Brave pilot project in Can Bech de Baix) and sweet almond oil from organic farming. Formulated only with essential oils from honey plants, which serve as food for our environmental heroes. Soft and balsamic, delicately aromatic. Its warm and welcoming background will make you feel good, with yourself and with your surroundings.
MEL is our sincere tribute to these fascinating social beings who have silently taught us for years the art of combining plants and aromas. Not only are they the natural perfumers of our landscape, but thanks to their tireless collecting work, they ensure the biodiversity of our landscapes.
«One of the most inspiring and remarkable olfactory experiences I have ever had.» Lourenço Lucena (Portugal)
«The experience, with Ernesto as a guide, is highly interesting, entertaining and sensitive. Being able to see, smell and know the origin, directly, of multiple plants, from which raw material for aromas is extracted, is simply a privilege» Juan Carlos Moreno (Colombia)
«What an unforgettable day. A powerful reconnection to the very essence of life around us. We started the day as strangers and ended the day as friends.» S.Baber (U.S.A.)
«The capture we collectively made during Ernesto’s workshop in January was an olfactory time machine. It had the power to transport me back to a beautiful winter's day in the Can Fares forest with new friends and new findings. Truly magical.» Wendy (U.S.A.)
«This olfactory voyage with Ernesto was a reconnection to something instinctive, an enlivening reminder to open all the senses back to nature.» Bojana J. (Barcelona)
«Last Saturday I went to one of the Bravanariz walks and I came back inspired by so much good energy and by having been in tune with nature in such an intimate way, such as smell. It is a day of living with a group of wonderful people, learning about plants and perfumes and how they are made in Bravanariz, sharing incredible food and wines, but, above all, giving you a feeling of harmony and serenity that I greatly appreciate.» Marta Sierra (Madrid)
«Fantastic day in the Albera, Ernesto transmits his great knowledge of the landscape, the plant world, and perfumes in a very enthusiastic way. A 100% recommendable experience. Excellent food.» Lurdes B. (Osona)
«The experience lived thanks to Bravanariz has left an indelible mark on my brain and my heart and of course on my nose. Never again without smelling one of their magical perfumes, they create a positive addition!» Claudia (Cadaqués)
«It has been incredible to see how an essential oil is created thanks to an explosion.» Ángela, 7 años (Cadaqués)
«Unforgettable experience and highly recommended. It is a formidable start to introduce you to the olfactory world. The day flies by. Frankly good and attractive staging. A 10 out of 10!» I.L.B. & Y.C.V. (Barcelona)
EXPERIENCES:
April, 22 (Saturday) – Capture the scent of Spring. Olfactory Walk
May, 20 (Saturday) – Celebrate World Bee Day with us
Every year, we create a series of olfactory experiences open to the everyone to share our personal creative process: the OLFACTORY CAPTURE.
It can be an Intensive Workshop (more technical) or a playful experience of immersion in the landscape through smell, which we call “Walks”.
In all the experiences, you will have the opportunity to practice the artisan processes of harvesting and distillation of aromatic plants, elaboration of essential oils, tinctures and hydrolates, as well as some of the best kept secrets of traditional perfumery.
You will learn about the plants that give the landscape its aromatic personality and you will discover a new way of relating to nature.
We capture the essence of any natural environment that you choose. The aroma of your region, the perfume of your farm or that of the landscape that you contemplated years ago from the window of your room, in that summer house. But not only that, we can also capture the fragrance of a lived experience, a party, a house full of memories, of a workshop or work space. As long as it is based on natural essential oils, we can design your personalized perfume and capture the fragrance of what matters to you.
Case studies:
Perfume SON BRULL. Creation of an exclusive perfume for a Relais & Châteaux in Pollensa, on the island of Mallorca. Made with the most abundant plants on the estate and capturing the aroma of its deeply Mediterranean landscapes.
INCAVI project. Five olfactory captures for five wineries in five Destinations of Origin (D.O’s) in Catalonia. In this commission from INCAVI, we traveled to five wine regions to capture the aromas of the plants that influence the territory and the wines of five very unique wineries.
Casa Cuervo. After the success of our ESSAI/Olfactori Digression, inspired by the farm of our creator’s father, we were commissioned to create a perfume, this time, with the plants collected on the farm, to capture the essence of this corner of the Extremaduran landscape.
We design tailor-made olfactory experiences adapting to your needs. From capturing the aromatic essence of a private garden, to an aromatic walk in a city. Talks, multi-sensory installations, natural perfumery courses for business groups or team building events. Whether you are a private group or a company, we will put together all our knowledge about plants and their aromas, in addition to enormous creativity, to create an unforgettable and transformative olfactory experience for you.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will make it happen.
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Experiences for Destination Management Companies
Come and visit our laboratory, the place where we formulate our perfumes. By the hand of the creator and perfumer of BRAVANARIZ, Ernesto Collado, you will do a tasting of 100% natural fragrances, tinctures and hydolates, you will discover, first-hand, the artisanal processes and the secrets that make us special and while you have a glass of good wine from Empordà with us, you will get to know our brand philosophy in depth. At the end, if you are still curious and want to take one of our 100% natural fragrances with you, you will have a special discount on the purchase of any of our products.
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Price of the visit: 25€ x pax.
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Objetive # 1
The main idea is to combine minimum intervention with maximum mutual benefit. We have to let Nature do her thing. We are just there to assist and
escort her.
First phase
-The first important thing is to recover the optimal state of the Prat de Dall. For this reason, we have to remove the poplar trees and clean away brambles and other bushes. We also need to cover the holes from fallen trees in order to level the ground well, so that it can be mowed.
-Along with this cleaning work, we will place the hives. Not on the prat de dall, but some 500m away (limit of the usual minimum radius of action for honey bees) , on a shrubland of aromatics, so we also give a chance to all the other pollinators to also take advantage of the prat de dall’s biodiversity.
Objetive # 2
Second phase
-Monitoring and maintenance of both lines of action: the hives (health of the bees, quantity and quality of the honey) and the prat de dall (variety of flora, mowing quality).
Become a donor meadow
Due to its characteristics, the Prat de Dall from Can Bec could become a perfect
donor meadow. Then, in collaboration with Prats Vius, we would collect its seeds in order to help restore other prats de dall in the area and use this location as a project showcase.
Replicate the project
After collecting enough data (2-3 years), we would love to replicate the project in other properties, making the necessary adjustments based on each propert
If you want to collaborate financing the project ,you can buy some of the garments that we have designed for it. You have a t-shirt and two different models of cap. The entire profit will be used to cover the expenses derived from the actions, monitoring and management of the Bee Brave project. Furthermore, you will help to gove it more visibility. Many thanks for your
collaboration.
Near Agullana (Alt Empordà), almost near the French border, in the Les Salines Mountains, we found an abandoned Prat de Dall, now covered with poplar trees. The presence of these trees caught our attention, since they usually need humid soils. The first botanical studies made by Joan Font (a biology professor
at Girona University) confirmed our intuitions, and they exceeded our expectations. The richness of its biodiversity is outstanding. We convinced the owner to join the project and started the cleaning work to accommodate our first organic bee hives and recover the prat de dall.
Bee Brave starts from a basic idea. If there are flowers, then there are bees. And if there are more bees, there will be more flowers, and thus more plants. This, for thousands of years, has been one of nature’s most beautiful feedback cycles. However, excessive human ambition is changing this equilibrium and breaking the
cycle. BEE BRAVE wants to restore this cycle, even if only locally, focusing on two parts of the equation: the bees and their habitat here.
Bee Brave recovers semi-natural habitats of great biodiversity and in regression in the Empordà, called Prats de Dall (Mowing Meadows). The action focuses on the adaptation of the Prats de Dall and subsequent follow-up. This is how we ensure the health and good nutrition of the ecological hives that we have installed there. And on the other hand, these bees help with their pollination task, the recovery and maintenance of this semi-natural habitat.
“The idea is simple: give a bit back to the landscape that gives us so much. It is
a gesture of gratitude. While the landscape does not need us to be what it is,
the landscape builds us and shapes us much more than we recognize. We owe a lot to our natural environment. Being aware of that is already a first step. BEE BRAVE is Bravanariz’s humble way of going one step further.”
Ernesto Collado, CEO & Found
