 The History of the Taïnos
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The Caribbean, the source of beauty! Long before the Arawaks arrived, the native Taïnos Indians were no gold-worshippers like the Conquistadors but venerated natural fragrances - in their eyes much more valuable.
This well-inspired tribe covered the whole of the Caribbean islands from Margarita to the Virgin Islands, where a Taïnos sculpture was discovered in 1996. The Taïnos Indians have passed their ancestral recipes for protection and beauty down to us.
Christopher Colombus's doctor was the first to learn of the Taïnos when he overheard some Arawak Indians speak about an ancient "good and noble" people.
The word "Taïnos" was synonymous with an ethic referring to this people's lifestyle based on a "society of pleasures".
We can well understand why, today, visitors to St. Barth make sure they leave the island with a little of its magic in their luggage.
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St. Barth, the idyllic island
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St. Barth is two hundred miles south-west of the Virgin Islands and three hundred miles south-west of Puerto Rico. St. Martin is a mere fifteen miles away.
St. Barth was inhabited by the main tribes of the Caribbean: Taïnos, Caribs, and Arawaks.
The island was discovered by Christopher Colombus in 1494 during his second voyage to the New World. He named the island after his brother Bartholomeo. During the seventeenth century, French settlers -mainly from Brittany and Normandy- came to live in St. Barth. Their descendants make up the majority of the present population of the island.
Away from the main trade routes, St. Barth did not begin to develop commercially until the late seventeenth century when France transferred the island's sovereignty to Sweden. St. Barth became a prosperous free port. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was handed back to France. Since the early 1980s the island has experienced a renewal in its fortunes through tourism, the quality of its environment and the wonderful lifestyle it offers.
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Manufacturing secrets
Our range will soon be augmented by fragrance-coordinated Moisturizing Oils obtained from the maceration of plants, essential oils and aromatic bases in a complex of plant-derived oils rich in:
- vitamin A (to nourish and replenish tissues)
- vitamin E (to protect from oxidation, stimulate skin circulation and tone skin)
- and vitamin F (to promote skin elasticity and freshness).
Our Eaux de Parfum are the result of an eight-week maceration of the same fragrance extracts. See our catalog.
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