Process

The methods we use to obtain the raw materials that we produce are handcrafted and without the use of chemical components. From the identification of local aromatic plants and their wild collection, to steam distillation and the production of tinctures and hydrolates. Everything is carried out manually and with the utmost respect for the plants and their environment.

Wild harvesting

For the production of our essential oils, tinctures, and hydrolates, we have wild collection contracts with various farms in the area. This ensures the enormous purity of our plants. These agreements are made under the framework of sustainable harvesting practices that follow the guidelines of the SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING PROTOCOL, designed by Sandra Saura Mas (biologist and environmentalist) exclusively for Bravanariz.

Olfactory Capture

It is not just about crossing the landscape but letting the landscape go through to us. For this reason, the first thing we must do is to spend time out there. That is the most important ingredient in everything we do. Time to observe and contemplate (which is not the same thing). To do a botanical study, collect data, talk to locals, classify plant families and densities, breathe and above all, to feel it. And this observation has to cover the entire annual cycle. Because landscapes do not smell the same way in Summer as in Autumn. And it doesn’t smell the same first thing in the morning as it does at sunset either. Only then, knowing what season and time of day are ideal for capturing the aromatic soul of the place, we would begin our particular process of Olfactory Captures. This process, prior to the formulation of the perfume itself, lasts at least one year and encompasses everything we do until we obtain what we call a Literal Olfactory Reference of the landscape we want to capture. It includes the manual harvesting of plants in their environment (following our exclusive Sustainable Wild Harvesting Protocol) , the distillation and creation of the Olfactory Capture and its subsequent comparison with the reference landscape.