INTRODUCING JONATHAN

INTRODUCING JONATHAN

First written in 2014 Finally a chance to write the autobiography that nobody has been clamouring for! In a nutshell, my adult life so far has been divided into three sections, each lasting about a decade. 1) Mucking about doing all sorts of things, then 2) cricket...
SIESTA

SIESTA

SIESTA By Jonathan Twenty kilometres away from our village is the small town of Ador where, in 2015, the mayor enshrined in law its citizens’ right to their traditional afternoon zizz – the siesta. Everything in the town closes between 2pm and 5pm and all noise...
ALFREDO’S CAFÉ

ALFREDO’S CAFÉ

One of the challenges of our La Montaña business, something that exercises us and has us endlessly poring over the results from focus groups and marketing experts… oh, who am I kidding?!  One of the funnest things with La Montaña, after coming up with the fragrances...
FIRST ACTUAL STEPS

FIRST ACTUAL STEPS

We had an idea of the first fragrance that we wanted to invoke: First Light – sunrise on the wild herbs of our mountainside (not “ours” ours, you understand). Jonathan’s Blog with Cass’s comments in lady-like pink and Jonathan’s rebuttals in manly blue And...
FIRST LIGHT – A BUSINESS IDEA?

FIRST LIGHT – A BUSINESS IDEA?

Anyway, back to the fragrance we smelled at first light on that September morning in 2011… (see Blog 3. SPAIN BABY!) Jonathan’s Blog with Cass’s comments in lady-like pink and Jonathan’s rebuttals in manly blue On our quiet mountainside, the simple, innocent,...
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