A lot of people ask me why I started making candles a few weeks after my illness was announced. To be completely honest, I don't really know.
What is obvious, however, is that the cancer affected me so much that I couldn't go back to my (normal) job once the treatment protocol had been put in place. On the one hand, because I was physically exhausted by the chemotherapy, and on the other, because if I was going to (survive) my life in the months to come, then I had to finally do something that nourished my soul, that made it vibrate (and channelled my energy and my anxieties).
I've always dreamed of doing something pretty with my hands. My friends know that I wanted to make jewellery for a long time. However, a lack of self-confidence, time and money (and perseverance too, let's be honest) meant that I abandoned my eco-responsible ‘Rosalie’ project, which I had tried to get off the ground in 2017/2018.
But when death looked me in the eye last summer, I told myself that it was high time to listen to my little inner voice that had been speaking to me for many years. And rather than resuming "Rosalie", I felt the need to create a new entity, brand new, free of any negative thoughts. A project like a treatment, an Antidote. A return to myself, to my deep aspirations that had been put aside for too long by the bulldozer of life. A return to emotions, to sensations, to the essential.
While we were away consoling ourselves with our family in the Lot region of France last August, I ordered my machine (bain-marie), contacted candle professionals, bought my 1st fragrances, etc... And on 4 September 2019, I proudly poured my first candles in my kitchen in Maussane.
Since then, I've woken up every morning as if it were Christmas Day. My head is full of projects, orders to fulfil, dates to meet, production, marketing, packaging and brand development issues. With the feeling that anything is possible and that you become what you think. That life is a gift, that we are the only masters of our own happiness and that if we have to live, let's live happily ;)