Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

  Ylang Ylang Tincture is Gorgeous! by  Anya McCoy  |  Jun 16, 2014  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  natural aromatics ,  Perfume From Your Garden book ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  0 comments I wish you could smell these ylang-ylangs!! They look limp, and that’s because I wilt them for an hour or so before putting into tincturing alcohol. The tincture I wrote about a few weeks ago is dark green, and saturated with so much scent, it could be ylang absolute. Incredibly sweet and heady. There are about two dozen in the basket. ( I wrote about this tincture a month ago  when I started it, and it is so saturated with aroma molecules now, the alcohol looks black) Ylang Ylang flowers ready for the alcohol tincture. I posted this on my Facebook page the other day and had a tremendous amount of interest. Most aromatherapists and natural perfumers know the ylang ylang essential oils and concrete that is available for blends. I’m fortun...

Powder Enfleurage! An Ancient Fragrant Art And a Giveaway by  Anya McCoy  |  Jun 26, 2014  |  Anya McCoy ,  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  enfleurage ,  Giveaway ,  Perfume From Your Garden book ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  176 comments How to Make Enfleurage des Poudres – Powder Enfleurage Fragrant Body Powders – An Ancient Art Rediscovered       Update April 19, 2015: I do recommend using a bit of powdered orris root or powdered oakmoss as a fixative. The ylang-ylang enfleurage was overpoweringly strong at first, but the scent faded over time. I’m going to mix orris root in with the powder and re-enfleurage the flowers. (make sure you read to the end to discover how to win the fabulous giveaway prize!) On June 15, I was working on the first re-edit of my upcoming book Perfume From Your Garden, checking references, when I stumbled across a few sentences in a vintage perfumer book that stopped me, and t...