Linalool
The lavender molecule
Modulates GABA-A receptor activity. The longest-standing evidence in the calming-scent literature — modest but consistent across small randomised trials.
Read the monograph →First Volume Soon
Sleep & Wind-Down
Audio for the end of the day. A night perfume. A sleep linen spray. Three things built around the body’s own deceleration — not a fix, a practice.
Be told when it opens
We are assembling a small body of work for the last hour of the day. Audio that doesn’t lecture you about your breath. Scent that doesn’t promise a cure. A practice the body can fall into rather than perform.
The Calming Stack
Relaxation & sleep, by the molecules that earn it.
The actives behind the Sleep Sanctuary Spray and the Night Perfume. Read the full monograph for each in The Lab Apothecary.
α-Bisabolol
The chamomile note
Smoothing companion to linalool. Anti-inflammatory adjacent to the GABA pathway. The note that closes the gap between lavender’s edge and the softer base.
Apothecary entry soon →Cedrol · Sandalore
The slower base
Cedrol lowers heart rate in olfactory clinical work. Sandalore reduces wakefulness-related cortical activity in EEG studies. The base that holds the calm past the seven-minute mark.
Apothecary entry soon →A sedative head cradled by a slow woody base. Designed so the calm survives the seven minutes you actually want it for.
What’s coming
A library of six sleep audio pieces plus a free 15-minute sampler. Each runs around 25–30 minutes and is built for a particular shape of evening — a racing mind, a cold body, the lonely end of a long day. Each is a deceleration arc: permissioned arrival → setting-down → the longer exhale → a body-scan → a gentle fade.
How we wrote them
Everything is informed by the evidence base on paced breathing, body-scan relaxation, narrative absorption and sensory grounding. The clinical techniques are embedded, not narrated. The sentence shapes lean long where the out-breath would. The pauses fall where exhales would fall. After a few minutes, your breathing drifts into the same pattern the research says helps — without your having to try.
See The Longer Exhale for the science we built around. See The Four-Seven-Eight for the explicit ritual.
Personalised sleep
Alongside the library, a personalised tier. You tell us where you hold tension tonight, what would feel like a safe place, what scent or texture is nearby — our pipeline writes a piece around it, in your name. Privacy by default. Quiet by design. Delivered to a private feed within 60–90 minutes.
When
We’re soft-launching the first library and the free sampler shortly. Subscribers to the wind-down list will be told first.
The Wind-Down
A 15-minute sample. Free.
The Long Way Down — the first piece from our forthcoming library — is yours when you join the list.
A wellness experience, not therapy or medical advice.