23rd April at 4.10pm: Unfortunately, regarding the message below and lead-times, I called it wrong. My apologies. As such all orders placed upto the 15th - and about half of those placed on the 16th, will leave by Friday 26th. On Thursday no collections are possible by couriers as it's a national holiday here in Italy. On the subject of SDS, the company handling this for us, has written to me today, acknowledged more are owed to us (submitted in December and January) and that they are now working on producing the final lot of SDS for us. This includes Plantation, Wild and Jungle ouds that many of you ask about. Next, I have spent the past year (literally) sampling ambrette seed e.o and absolutes from various producers and resellers to no avail. They all smell really poor compared to what I carried. They are too nutty, too fatty, too vegetative, too lacklustre, falling away very fast, and really dont showcase the musky textured qualities of a top ambrette properly. Even the big naturals brands are all obtaining and selling sucky poor man's ambrette at the moment. Written as I have decided to move over to carrying ambrette CO2 and this will be in place until I can find a wow absolute and E.O again. CO2 is still not on par with what I had, but it offers a far better profile on the musky front than the abs and e.os in the market place right now. This CO2 will be in stock by early May. Next, we will put all the non.eu destinations we can supply to, back on our website on May 6th - so U.A.E, UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Australia. On the new product front, the next batch of 10 superstars will be released on the 20th May - lots more roses planned. And I will get started on expanding the bulk wholesale side of the business very soon - more aromatics and offered in larger weights as standard - likely upto a kilo on the website. Ok I will write again by Monday. Thank you, Adam : )
19th April at 5pm: Quick update to first say I have now added the following big ticket aromatics to the website: Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto). Orders, as I type with exception to 3 orders, every order placed up until the 11th has left with the couriers. By Monday 22nd, all orders placed up until the 14th will leave with couriers and I will type again across Monday with another update. Bulk Wholesale orders that still need to be manually typed and billed will be done so by Tuesday 23rd. Thank you, Adam : )
15th April at 5.30pm: Today I am running behind but I am happy to say that along with all E.U countries, we now can supply to the USA again. USA switched on just now and the Mysore Sandalwood 4 year aged E.O offer is extended for a week for USA clients to enjoy too. By Wednesday 17th all orders from the 9th April will be dispatched with DHL. Although we are rather full-on with orders at the moment, the lead time will improve significantly very shortly. Reason being since reopening the focus has been solely on building stocks up and we have staff coming on as well now (at last!). I will write again on Wednesday regarding lead times. This week my tasks are to get on top of the SDS we are owed by the company we have employed to handle this. And other than this I am adamant I will update the bulk wholesale list with more aromatics. Finally for now - the following 11 aromatics have recently been added to the site - French Rose Geranium E.O, Sandalwood Mysore E.O 4 Year Aged, Tuscan Olive Leaf Absolute, Mitti Attar (Petrichor), Persian Queen of Roses (Otto), Tomato Leaf Absolute, Oud Assami Skank E.O V.1, South Indian 10 Year Aged Vetiver E.O, Bengali Nagarmotha E.O, VIolet Leaf Concrete, Italian Helichrysum Absolute S.G. Thank you, Adam : )
Adam Michael has this to say “Aglaia Flower absolute is a tropical masterpiece aromatic, a multi-floral layered heart note triumph, brought to us from one of my current favourite (11.07.21) countries in the world for high-end florals, none other than China. A country that has raised its game exponentially on the absolutes front across the last decade and is delighting us all with such captivating aromatics.
The opening here is very magnolia orientated, very white floral, with distinct apple crispness and peach juice aspects along with greener qualities that are comparable to smelling magnolia leaf oils. After this the aroma develops displaying jasmine tea notes in the form of an absolute, so deeper and even more floral and astringent than that of the actual CO2. This slowly moves into a sweet grape through to blue bubble-gum, cream soda and Tahitian vanilla plasticine territory and this is just off the charts amazing. Materials such as osmanthus and gardenia also make guest appearances along with more thirst-quenching juicy notes from trace lychee through to sun ripe pears.
The blue bubble gum smell btw being just like the aroma of biting into those old school oversized blue bubble gum pieces or drinking the neon blue bubble gum drinks back in the 1990’s. Looking closer at the dry down I think there are even resinous aspects with trace woods and maybe even something fleeting aged copaiba here. I must have evaluated a few thousand aromatics in the last 16 years and honestly this is just mind blowing.
Colour is golden amber-yellow through to cola-brown subject to weight, perfectly alcohol and oil soluble. This aromatic is produced solely from the tiny flowers of which actually don’t open and remain in this tiny ball form on the plant, giving out strong aroma throughout the day and barely any scent at all during the night. Outstanding product and in my view, via us or others, everyone needs to experience aglaia flower absolute.”
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Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
A truly wonderful fantasy blend of pear,apples and peach fruit cocktail of mouth watering experience that strangely gives you also a sense of a delicate white flower..a soft gardenia..a hint of osmanthus too all blended together in harmony..so happy i have the opportunity to try this rare oil from hermitage store..and looking forward for more gems!!
Sarah J (verified owner) –
What a beautiful dance of aromas, this is a perfect marriage of water, breeze, most delicate green tea, lightest refreshing jasmine on the breeze, lemon, taste of dried apricots, yarrow CO2, slight mossy, hint of cedar/balsam, morning dew, misty heaven!
Lena B (verified owner) –
Love this absolute so much! Such a multifaceted material – jasmine tea with honey, fruits and white flowers, it has it all! Can’t wait to try.
Whitney S. (verified owner) –
This material is absolutely fabulous! A wonderfully sweet, fruity floral that is unique and unlike other florals used in the natural perfumer’s palette. I completely agree with Adam on the old-school bubble gum effect – to my nose, I noticed this almost immediately.
innasany (verified owner) –
This is definitely worth noting. In high school in the 80’s, I had a perfume, it is no longer produced (it’s a pity that things that are worth it will always stop being produced), but it was like Aglaia…it reminded me of my teenage time. Aglaia tempts me to mix with yuzu, bergamot, lemon, green mandarin, copaiba maybe … very pure scent of amazon, rainforest, no intoxicating grease of heavy flowers. It reminds me a bit of the essential oil of the Magnolia leaf, but sweeter. Excellent as add for male scent also – only my impression :).