The Beauty of Aromatic Tinctures
The Beauty of Aromatic Tinctures by Anya McCoy | Feb 24, 2014 | Anya's Garden Perfumes , Perfume From Your Garden book | 2 comments It’s not just the fragrance of the plant that is beautiful, some of the colors of the tinctures are gorgeous, too. These photos of some of my tinctures are about ten years old – it’s time to take some new photos! At the time, I put the jars on my windowsill, and the screen pattern came through, so I “smeared” the photos with a photo program. It made some of the colors morph a bit, and I loved it. They are all very close to the natural color of the tinctures, just a bit of an abstraction. The deerstongue green is spectacular. The deerstongue and Michela alba are the easiest/quickest to tincture of the four. They’ll be in the Perfume From Your Garden book (renamed Homemade Perfume, pub 2018). Sign up to be on my mailing list, there’ll be special offers for newsletter recipients when the book is released. I’m in the midst of step-by-step inst