For several years now, cultivating plants, known as “simples,” has allowed us to make herbal teas. This work does not yet ensure the priory’s financial independence, but your donations contribute to it.
This has led us to raise bees, whose honey, propolis, and wax are precious gifts that we use to create formulas for balms, hydrosols, and infusions with our flowers and aromatic plants.
A Brief History of Damask Roses
Provident encounters have allowed us to create extraordinary products for which we now need to expand our production, particularly of Damask roses.
A neighbor of the priory, retiring, has agreed to sell us a very well-exposed field where we will begin planting Damask roses, a rare and ancient species highly prized in the perfume industry and used in the formula for the “drops of love” we have developed.
In 1254, upon his return from the Crusades, the knight Robert de Brie brought a sample back to France. The Damask Rose immediately gained popularity in France and was quickly associated with the manufacture of ointments and skin remedies.
These “drops of love,” carefully collected for the love of God who loves us, are offered by the Community under the beautiful name “Still’Amoris.” Balms, infusions-maceration, serum and hydrosol!
The cultivation of our plants and the raw materials for our 100% natural products.
The cultivation, harvesting, drying, distillation, and processing, including beekeeping, are carried out at the priory by the Little Sisters.
The distillation of our Damask rose
