Also this year in Casalvento (Castellina in Chianti) Stefania came to visit us. An experienced natural health practitioner and aromatherapist who always looks for novelties and functional products . It is a welcome and stimulating visit. We confront  each other on current topics of production technique and new therapeutic items. She asks me to be present in the company, to reserve as much time as possible for her, she takes notes, takes pictures and memorizes. I try to give her everything I can, all I can.
If I have to be honest, I look forward to her visit, I  prepare it and take care of each detail because Stefania is really special and deserves to enter our production center from the main door and with the respect due for a culturally evolved and prepared person.
Meticulous and curious nothing escapes her and when she is particularly interested in a specific subject  she  repeats the questions: the first time I thought I was wrong, then I realized she wanted to understand the smallest details to the full. I know her well now, it's been years she has visited Tuscany on purpose and I love not to disappoint her. This year I let her know with important products advances that we have not yet released. We have in stock big news in the field of Hydrolats and Essential Oils. She has  already seen them ... I would say our world premiere !!!. It is true and she knows it. She also knows that she cannot talk about it for some more months, when the patent procedure is over.  As we do with serious people I trusted her and did well; do the same as well. Follow her news and you will find it interesting to find out what she already knows. A smile from Italy, Stefania !"
Lorenzo Domini - Owner of Lavanda del Chianti - Medical Doctor, Master in Internal Medicine, PhD in Clinical Pharmacology, Consultant of Pharmaceutical Industries.

I am evaluating the results of using bergamot essential oil in my patients. I have selected those who are troubled by a depressive mood and open to an alternative approach. For a week they had to write down their mood, anxiety, energy and sleep quality. Over the next week they used bergamot and continued to write. They used the nasal inhaler and I asked them to do it five times a day. The positive effect on anxiety and depression was mainly observed in women. I wouldn't generalize from these results and state gender differences - the sample was too small for that. But enough for me to recommend it to other patients.
Paul Grof - M.D., PhD, FRCPC - Ottawa Director of Mental Disorders

Congratulations ! Excellent, very interesting workshop! ”
(Healing with Essential oils: Anti-bacterial and antiviral essential oils Workshop)
Paul Grof – M.D., PhD, FRCPC – Director of the Mood Disorders Centre of Ottawa

Your seminar was compelling for its contents and for your great ability to transmit knowledge with passion. We felt your preparation born from experience and commitment in the study and this gives you great merit. I will treasure it, for myself and for the people I am helping in the hospital. This is why I would be very pleased to explore the topic of stress and how to mitigate it with the use of oils. On this issue, in fact, I thought of organizing a meeting with all of you and sharing what I am doing for the post-traumatic recovery from stress of the health workers of my hospital. Your help would be important.
Doctor Patrizia Pertolan, Psychologist, Santa Maria degli Angeli Hospital , Pordenone , Friuli (Italy)