Botanical sensory delights, witch ritual tools, and vegan wellness wares merging nature and spirit.
Le Noir Bleu Aromatherapy, LLC is small batch whimsical witchery, botanical sensory delights, and vegan wellness wares merging nature and spirit. We feature Portland, Oregon handmade/homegrown Celtic herb wands, loose herb ritual incense, our Full Moon Fragrances line, phthalate-free perfume roll-on oils, 100% essential oil wearable aromatherapy roll-ons, cotton wick/ soy wax candles, essential oil spritzers, essential oil diffusers, natural skin and hair/beard care, therapeutic bath soaks, natural body oils, and more—all made by a Certified Herbalist / PNW Crone with over 22 years making soaps, candles, potions, and magickal elixirs.
Hello, wonderful friends. Thank you for stopping by. All are welcome here.
Featuring mindfully handmade, high-quality, cruelty free, all-vegan products, I create items for bath and body, home, and beauty products as well as magickal ritual tools, based off of my Celtic ancestry. Everything is made in NE Portland, by one woman, so obviously, a female owned business.
Le Noir Bleu began with handmade jewelry in 1995, but shifted to candles, soaps and roll-ons by 1997-1999.
As an organic gardener, I put a lot of focus on the cultivation my own food as well as growing plants indigenous to my Celtic/Druid/Heks ancestors and their traditional folklore, plant magick, and plant medicines. 👉👉👉You can’t truly know and respect a plant until you have raised it on your own. Until you have cared for it—through all the seasons— and helped to regenerate its existence👈👈👈 *Beware of false Green Witches*
***We focus on growing herbs and flowers traditionally used in Celtic and Druid rituals, since that’s our main heritage.
***To ensure the quality/ true magickal energy of our herb wands, we only bind that which we’ve grown ourselves, in our own organic garden.
***We do not believe in “wild-crafting” or “ethical foraging.” We strongly oppose it, actually. See why below:
*** You cannot be 100% assured of the energy of any plant unless you know it’s origin and care with which it was mindfully and intentionally raised.
***Wild foraging may be upsetting to the ecosystem as well as you may be taking plants from land that is near a reservation or near an area where generations of indigenous people have a lived and may come to that area for medicine and you may not know it.
***Even if you think you were helping the environment by using invasive plants, you have no way of knowing how these plants may be feeding other plants or animals or the community.
***Moreover, you can never be sure if you’re the only person taking only 1/3 or 1/4 of the medicine from that area.
***You also cannot be sure of the cleanliness of the soil and definitely not sure of the energy of the ground from which it comes.
***You should always buy your magickal herbs from someone who has actually grown them and cared for them and spent hours of time with them. Please respect wild, public plants.
***So mote it be.***
Le Noir Bleu is all about honoring nature and plant pride. I lived on the Oregon coast (Depoe Bay) for a few years as a teenager and the sea forever echoes own my soul. I like the idea of bringing the gorgeous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest to indoor spaces. If I had my way, the inside of our home would be covered in dried herbs (it's slowly getting there! hahaha), moss, redwoods, dogwoods, juniper tress, edgeworthia chrysantha, Albizia julibrissin, Hamamelis virginiana, mushrooms, lavender, rosemary, jasmine, and roses and we'd have crows, bumblebees, wolves, foxes, polar bears, black panthers, squirrels, and cottontail bunnies as housemates.
I created Le Noir Bleu because the list of unidentifiable ingredients on so-called "natural" products confused and frightened me. I use the least amount of ingredients possible and everything in my cold-process soaps, herbal bath soaks, face serums, balms, and essential oil spritzers are plant-based. Handmade. Natural. Healthy. I'm a visual learner with a deep appreciation for all things sensory. I want to share my love of nature and it's many treasures by making healthy, memorable, and high quality products.
My paternal grandmother was somewhat of a woman's rights pioneer, being one of the first female deans at a university in the Midwest. She was also a chemistry professor, so I think mixing potions comes naturally to me. My Grandma Bond was also very creative and often hand knitted, crocheted, and sewed clothes for me as a kid.
Although I have worked with larger corporate chainstore entities, I generally choose to keep my wholesale orders small and work with careful precision and intent. Sometimes it takes me awhile to process orders because I want to do them mindfully and artistically instead of mass produce them. If you prefer the robotic quickness and free shipping of Amazon, I’m not the shop for you, loves. And, please, do keep in mind--especially those of you have never worked in retail or customer service--there is a real live human being with a life and feelings behind every box, correspondence, item, and package (even at Amazon)--often merely making minimum wage (or less, if handmade items), so...be kind.
As a longtime non-meat eater (35+ years), Le Noir Bleu is not just all about plant pride and whimsical Celtic/Norse witchery, but also about honoring the vegan community. Every product by us is vegan—so you never have to worry about cross-contamination or buying items from folks who mock your lifestyle or ideals after they take your money 🙄. I see a lot of companies jumping on veganism as if it’s some sort of "trend” by offering one or two vegan items, but still making the majority of their products with tallow (which is rendered beef or mutton fat), lanolin, squalene, ambergris, carmine, goat’s milk, honey, beeswax, etc. I eat a vegan diet and I keep everything strictly vegan in my shop. There is never any worry here. But I am not here to preach veganism to you (yes, I know, there are plenty of vegans that do)— that is a personal choice and there are more than enough resources online for you to explore that journey for yourself (such as www.onegreenplanet.com). I have never forced my choices or viewpoints on others. This is, however, just to be clear, a safe haven for vegans. But all are welcomed, un-judged. I do not believe any real or productive change comes from bullying--or from forced/ insincere change--so please, you follow your path and allow others to follow theirs.
I begin studying and practicing Buddhism about 35 years ago and around the same time I was introduced to Wicca, though I began the "craft" at age five! So, Buddhism and Wicca have an interesting correlation, personally, for me. I have belonged to several Buddhist groups (mainly Vipassana, a couple Zen) and have attended regular meditation groups and dharma talks, though my Cailleach practice has generally been solitary (with the exception of some long ago, initial experiences). I come from a long line of intuitives, psychics, empaths, and magick makers and often call of my ancestors for guidance.
I’m also I deeply passionate about supporting RAINN (the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network), local no-kill animal shelters, and mental health awareness groups by donating my time, products, and a percentage of proceeds annually. I’ve also donated to the NAACP, Actors and Others for Animals, the National Arbor Day Foundation, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and in 2022 we are excited to start creating welcome/ care boxes for children and teens in the DHS welfare/ social care system as they look for forever homes.
I’m a bit of a recluse nowadays, unlike when I started my business in 1990s. I’m living with the daily challenges of myriad chronic pain issues, surgeries, and CPTSD. I’m grateful to have a large network of incredibly encouraging, supportive, and unconditionally loving friends and family, especially my beloved husband and bunnies.
I still work part time as a Literary Editor and Writer and I merge my writing with my aromatherapy/herbalism business whenever I can. I am passionate about both and I believe both hold an important place in society for overall health and wellness.
Some of my favorite things are: gray skies, quantum physics, science, folklore, plant medicine, walking in the woods, sitting in the rain by the river, following the phases of the moon, visiting the coast, watching crow communities, photographing fungi and moss and lichen, reading contemporary poetry and fairytales and magical realism fiction, watching old films and Studio Ghibli, listening to music (especially KishI Bashi, Chelsea Wolfe, The Knife, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Bauhaus, CocoRosie, Billie Holliday, and much more), talking to the neighborhood cats who always seem to follow me on my walks, talking to my plants, and rocking in my maternal grandfather’s vintage rocking chair (who passed away in 2006).
Blessed Be.
Hadet, heks. Mar shin leat, cailleachs.
