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 fortunate in that I live in the subtropics so that I can grow

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 truly surprised me with some wonderful information. The process of  enfleurage de