Picture walking on soft silver sand, past basking sea otters. To your left a dolphin glides beyond the waves, on your right the beautiful machair grassland is a picture of wild flowers, rare orchids and iris beds, and the air is filled with birds calling.
Some far-off exotic island? Actually closer than you think, this is Kildonan, on the Isle of Arran.
Not surprising perhaps that ARRAN Sense Of Scotland, a family company based on Arran (off the west coast of Scotland if you weren’t sure), are passionate about bringing pure, natural products from this beautiful wilderness into your home. Their stated purpose is ‘To help the world connect with nature’ and I can vouch that they do this with their amazing products.
I’ve written about ‘After The Rain’ before in Frost but how excited was I to learn of their new fragrance called, of course, ‘Kildonan’, after that beautiful sea cove. It really captures the Kildonan machair (rare habitats in western Scotland and Ireland, renowned for wildflowers and birds), with a blend of sweet, delicate violet warmed with the glow of velvety orris (iris roots) and lily of the valley. The result is gentle and floral and makes me yearn for warm sand between my toes and a soothing sea breeze.
The Kildonan hand wash, a lovely blue-green colour, makes washing your hands a hedonistic pleasure, and how can you not follow up with the soothing hand cream, gently formulated with shea butter, vitamin E, beeswax and actives of aloe vera leaf juice.
At £16 each for 300mls these are luxurious high quality products at a great price. I simply can’t stop smelling my hands. ARRAN Sense Of Scotland – check out this link for a whole range of fabulous products – you owe it to yourself.
By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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