Orchid Mill

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

I am taking pre-orders for Christmas. This year we have some exciting options. We have a TWO pound candle in wooden dough bowl ($45); a one pound candle in dough bowl ($35); an 8 oz candle in gold mercury glass (20)!! We also have our gift boxes this year that include an 8 oz gold mercury candle, wax melts and room spray (50)!! Lastly, our individual lovely wax melts and room sprays ($10)!! Something for everyone!! Message me to order!!

Fragrances this year are amazing!!!

Heaux Heaux Heaux - Spruce, Vanilla, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Lemon Oil, Peppermint Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Fir Needle Oil

Christmas in City Park - Apple, Spearmint, Peach, Juniper Berries, Sage, Eucalyptus, Pine

Bonfires on the Levee - clove leaf, eucalyptus, patchouli, cedarwood, nutmeg, cinnamon bark, labdanum, and galbanum.

Boujee & Bright - Bacarrat Rouge - Jasmine, Saffron, Fir, Cedar, Amberwood, Ambergris

07/19/2025

Martin Couney never wore a white coat. He never earned a medical degree. He never stepped inside a hospital classroom.
Yet, he saved over 7,000 tiny lives.
In the early 1900s, when premature babies were dismissed as failures—too weak to survive—Couney saw promise. While others said, “Let them perish,” he insisted, “We must fight.”
His solution? A public spectacle.
At Coney Island, amid ferris wheels and candy stalls, Couney displayed fragile infants in incubators—as an amusement attraction. Hospitals rejected these babies. Medicine turned away. Funding came only from ticket sales of amazed visitors.
Inspired by poultry incubators seen at the Chicago World’s Fair, Couney transformed what seemed madness into a miracle. Each baby received warmth, care, and respect—all under the curious gaze of the crowd.
What science abandoned, the sideshow embraced.
What society scorned as a freak show, Couney made a sanctuary.
By 1943, his “show” closed, but incubators were in nearly every American hospital. One man without a degree reshaped the fate of fragile lives with vision and fearless compassion.
Thousands live today because Martin Couney refused to let hope die.


~ The Inspireist

05/08/2025

Bougie Rouge (Baccarat Rouge) , Mint Julep, Lemon Verbena, City Park (Apple & Mint), Southern Belle (Magnolia & Peony), and Bon Temps (tonka, clove, jasmine, sandalwood) are this Summer’s fragrances. Message me for details.