by Anya | Jun 26, 2014 | Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden Perfumes, enfleurage, Giveaway, Perfume From Your Garden book, raw materials of perfumery
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...
by Anya | May 29, 2012 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, enfleurage
Ruffled, delicate Summerscent blooms Do you love the fragrance of blooming michelia or ylang ylang flowers? Then you’ll love this pretty flowering plant, sometimes called Summerscent or dwarf tree jasmie. Radermachera kunming is a rare plant, not often found...
by Anya | Mar 9, 2012 | enfleurage, frankincense friday
Trygve Harris of Enfleurage sent me a series of photographs of frankincense trees from different locales in Oman. Very intriguing are the ones she calls “Old Lady” trees. Below are some photos of them, and a photo of some recently-harvested resin from...
by Anya | Dec 23, 2009 | Anya McCoy, enfleurage
This holiday my home is scented with the heady, floral, spicy beauty of white tuberoses. I just got a shipment in of several hundred flowers, and I now have trays filled with the vegetable shortening and scented beauties.I made several pomades “recharges”...
by Anya | Oct 15, 2009 | Anya McCoy, enfleurage, natural perfume
All gardenias are not the same. Modern natural perfumery has a growing selection of raw materials from different species and varieties of gardenia to choose from, and we’re all the better because of it. This image typifies the gardenia perfume fragrance we all...
by Anya | Aug 22, 2008 | Anya McCoy, enfleurage
Gardenia flower When I was in school studying Economic Botany, (scroll down) I reveled in tales of the Plant Hunters. These were adventurous botanists who traveled to remote regions looking for plants that would be useful to us. Many focused on medicinal plants, but I...
