your ritual

Your Ritual
A Welcome, From Mountain Troodos

Your
Ritual

Five steps, one quiet hour: a small piece of Cyprus, unpacked tonight in the Tuscan hills.

✦ For tonight, in your room ✦

Before You Begin

Welcome, straight from the Troodos mountains. Think of me as your spa therapist for the next thirty minutes, guiding you through each step just as I would in the treatment room, one breath, one product at a time. Nothing here is rushed. Everything in your pouch has its place.

To Begin

Before you open anything, sit for a moment. Close your eyes and take one slow breath in through your nose, and let it go. That's it, the ritual has started.
Now, something to listen to while your hands do the rest.

Press Play

Opens in Spotify, or swap in whatever makes your room feel like yours.

Set the Scene

  • Draw a warm bath, or simply dim the lights
  • Tie your hair back, cleanse your hands
  • Phone on silent, across the room
  • A glass of water poured, you'll want it after the mask
the ritual
1
Λασμαρί · Lasmarí

Cleanse

2–3 minutes

Before you touch anything, open the jar and breathe it in: that's Cypriot rosemary greeting you first. Now take a small amount and massage it onto dry skin, in slow circles, avoiding the eye area. Enjoy the scent as you work it in. When you're ready, add a little lukewarm water and keep massaging, feeling it transform beneath your fingers as oil turns to milk. Rinse thoroughly, or lift it all away with a warm, damp cloth.

Hemp seed and Cypriot olive oil, Cypriot rosemary extract.

2
Χώμα · Chóma

Mask

15–20 minutes

Sweep an even layer over clean, dry skin, leaving the eye area untouched. Feel it cool as it meets your skin, then slowly begin to tighten. This is your pause within the pause: let your shoulders drop, sip your water, and give it its full fifteen to twenty minutes. When it's ready, rinse with warm water and pat dry, gently, like you're drying something precious.

Kaolin and green montmorillonite clay, pre- and postbiotics.

3
Ρόδο · Ródo

Serum

1 minute

Take a small amount and apply it directly over your face and neck. Press gently, don't rub, and let it sink in fully. Feel the coolness of Cypriot rosewater settle into your skin before you move on.

Cypriot rosewater, truffle extract, hyaluronic acid.

4
Ανθός · Anthós

Cream

1–2 minutes

Take a small amount and glide it over your face and neck in slow, upward strokes, as if you were smoothing the whole day away. Let it settle for a moment. This is the layer that holds everything you've just given your skin.

Crocus chrysanthus bulb extract, ceramides.

5
Καρπός · Karpós

Face Oil

3 minutes

Warm two or three drops between your palms until you can feel the heat of them. Press your hands over your whole face and breathe in, slowly. Now, let's massage it in for three minutes, no more:

Sweep both palms from the centre of your chin out along the jaw, up to your ears, three times. Glide your fingertips from the corners of your mouth up to your temples, smoothing as you go, three times. Walk your fingers up your forehead, from brow to hairline. Finish at your temples: small, slow circles, and let your shoulders drop as you make them.

When your three minutes are up, rest your palms over your face one last time and hold them there: this is the last thing your skin will feel before it rests for the night.

Rosehip, moringa and apricot kernel oil, ceramides.

the ritual, complete

"To ládi to kaló"

The good oil, a small Cypriot inheritance, tonight travelling with you through Tuscany. However you spend the rest of your evening, we hope this hour was entirely yours.

With care, Mont Trod · Limassol, Cyprus