Growing Ambrette Seeds for Making Perfume
Growing Ambrette Seeds for Making Perfume by Anya McCoy | Oct 13, 2014 | Anya's Garden Perfumes , natural aromatics , Perfume From Your Garden book , raw materials of perfumery | 2 comments Just a quick post about the progress of my patch of ambrette seed plants. Known as Abelmoschas moschata or (Syn. Hibiscus abelmoschus L.), is prized for food, drink, industrial and medicinal uses, but I prize it for the musk-scented seeds, which are valuable in perfumery. The seeds have a floral, musky scent, and can substitute, in their own way, not identically, the scent of the musk deer grains. They’re a true cruelty-free way to add a musky scent to perfume. Imagine my surprise when I went out to re-shoot the blurry yellow ambrette flower, and found it had morphed to a lovely salmon color! There are dozens of flower buds on my 15 plants, but there was only one flower yesterday and today, the first of the patch. I didn’t...