About Bohobo Aromatherapies

We are Miles and Birgitta Bellême, we make natural handmade aromatherapy-based products for holistic wellbeing. Weavers of poetry into the everyday with ritual, ayurveda, astrology and seasonal living, we started Bohobo Aromatherapies to create and share a company that would reflect our life. After the birth our first daughter in 2013 we made a change from beautiful but busy Paris, to beautiful and fresh countryside. We did this to spend more time together, to experience the seasons, and to live a slower life. Twenty sum years prior I studied to be an aromatherapist in London but then returning to my native Australia to complete a degree in writing and literature meant that aromatherapy was side-lined. It felt like the right moment to create more space for it. After making some beautiful natural perfumes and selling them at local markets Miles had a very good and very practical idea. He was visiting a friend of ours with a potion I’d made for her sleep troubles. A couple of her friends arrived and were interested in the little bottle of magic that was being talked about. Returning home Miles said with an outstretched hand and a raised eyebrow - What if you made the sleep sprays and headache remedies and those little things that you make for us as part of Bohobo not just perfumes? Clearly, I thought it wouldn’t be a good idea, but did I it anyway. With savings running dry, we sold Christmas cakes to get enough money to buy our first supplies and Bohobo Aromatherapies cameRead their story