Which fragrance should be made into a perfume?
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Fragrance! Which roses do you HAVE to have?
Comments (100)Fascinating to read in the article you linked to, Anna-Lyssa, how researchers scientifically measure the scents within and around flowers. The variations in results referred to suggest to me that the variations that rose growers report in how they experience a particular rose's scent may not be always necessarily due to different clones of the plant or to differences in the person's capacity to smell, but to external factors too, such as regional differences, including the effect of different soils, climates and microclimates and other very specific localised conditions. Maybe this is related to the concept of 'terroir' in wine grape growing, where the flavour of a finished single-variety wine can be greatly influenced by the soil and location in which the vines grew; even whether they were on, for example, the southern slope or the eastern flat of one particular field!...See MoreWhich minis have fragrance?
Comments (18)Oh wow! We got snow on Tues up in the high desert in NV where we were, they said the storm went on to Utah and I guess I wasn't paying attention, Montana!! Well Deb isn't seeing any new growth on any of the roses right now... Yep, this year maybe right up to June, weird weather. I'm looking forward to this year's photos of your roses from you and Deb:) That's a very cold looking winter's day, I'll come back and look again when I'll all sweaty from transplanting roses in the heat:). Hard to believe when I've got the sun shining and it's 70 something and the roses all have buds. Makes me feel bad, but not bad enough to go back and live in zone 7 again and have a 3 month growing season. Sorry:) My Sunshine is blooming too. Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with the 6 minis Sue helped me pick out, nope won't tell her. She's still laughing over my Rosa Banksia Lutea planted in the corner of the yard:) Penguu- I have a bloom I picked off Buttermint yesterday that has a nice fragrance. That's a medium yellow on a mini that gets to be 14 -18" tall. It's a good repeating blooming mini rose....See MorePerfumes (fragrances) we have known and loved
Comments (54)Friend of mine and I wore Windsong all during high school. She bought me a bottle a few years ago and it was AWFUL to me now! LOL Don't know if my body chemistry has changed, or my nose is better now! LOL Used to love White Linen. Wore Ralph Lauren's Romance for a long time and now I'm back to wearing Burberry (the original scent). Don't wear a lot of anything - used to teach with a girl that turned me off of all scents for a long time. She bathed in whatever she wore. Isn't it funny how so many memories are tied up with our noses!? LOL...See MoreHas anyone made perfume from roses?
Comments (6)I have! Here's the thing with perfume from flowers though. It takes pounds and pounds of flowers to create a small bottle of fragrance oil. But many less flowers to make a powerful fragranced oil. I highly suggest the enfleurage technique for something like this. Which involves infusing a solid fat to extract the scented oils from flowers. This technique is great for when you want to capture the scent of flowers that don't distill well, or who's fragrance oils are ruined by alcohol. And I feel rose fragrance is greatly altered by an alcohol base. It's especially nice for delicate flowers, or ones you know you don't have enough to make a solid batch of pure fragrance oil. I certainly don't have acres of roses lol. The basic technique is to lay flower petals flat into a tray of hard fat every day. Cover it with cling wrap. And replace the petals the next day with new ones. The fat will absorb the fragrance oils. Repeat until desired depth of fragrance is achieved. Then container it up. If you were continue this process you would then proceed to separate the fat from the fragrance oils. But this yields a low amount of fragrance oil, from highly fragrant fat. I suggest a hard fat over a soft fat for more delicate fragrances like roses, gardenias, jasmine, and so on. Soft fats like olive oil will lose the scent much more quickly. Traditionally lard was used. But my go to is coconut oil (refined). The reason being is that I can use the coconut oil as a scented body moisturiser, or whip it up into a scented body butter. Or you can make a lovely rose water. I use rose water as a facial toner and the scent usually sticks around 45 minutes or so. Good luck!...See Morepatchoulijulie
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