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 “Whilst commonly referred to in English as “blue lotus absolute”, this is actually a water lily (Nymphaea), whereas white and pink lotus are true lotus flowers (Nelumbo).
Now, since moving to Italy in 2017 I have had the pleasure of getting to know the aroma of many floral plants that would otherwise be a little challenging for me back in the much loved UK.
As such we now grow Nymphaea caerulea and other Nymphaea caerulea cultivated varieties in big pots of water and soil around our property and our gardens throughout the summer. The photos I am using have all been taken in my gardens, albeit across last summer.
Aromatically the smell of the true living Nymphaea caerulea flowers have a Crayola crayon, waxy like backbone, with lots of sweet heady floral, and spice tinged warmth, that as a Westerner I’d simply describe as “exotic” smelling. The aroma is addictive and burying my nose into the flowers and inhaling the aroma is indeed an enjoyable summer afternoon pastime. Most of the cultivated varieties of blue water lily have a distinct and stronger cherry note in my opinion plus true Nymphaea caerulea flowers sit on the surface of the water, whereas with many of the other varieties (such as my main photo showing Nymphaea caerulea var Lilac Star) the flowers rise well above the water.
Regarding the aroma profile of this blue lotus absolute, the backbone for me is Crayola waxy for sure, but somehow with a dry chalk like trait, and from this you get lots of sweetness, borderline parma violet territory, a little lychee orientated, dewy aspects and with strong hits of mouth-watering cherries, playdough and something lilac powdery-esque with a faint hit of greenness. The aroma profile is mostly consistent throughout, albeit with aquatic green pond nuances showing themselves deep in the dry-down. Applied to neat to my skin, I get around 4 hours of wear and via the strip the aroma is present for over a week. I would describe this aroma profile as almost perfectly representing Nymphaea caerulea var Sterena, which suggests at least to my nose that a cross selection of flowers have been used for this production.
Of a slightly sluggish but easily pourable viscosity, amber to brown red amber in colour subject to weight, cultivated production and a highly enjoyable and luxurious material. (9.5 out of 10 for Batch BL7TH – Year 2023). As for uses, a perfume in its own right, useful within Oriental accords, water themed floral accords and I find this layers very nice with lilac co2, clean smelling ouds (so barn and skank free), ylang absolute and adds a pleasant twist within white floral accords.”
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Rob Lloyd (verified owner) –
Totally agree with everything Adam says about this one – I personally think it’s a stunner…
Danielle Roberts (verified owner) –
Oh this is interesting… I reviewed this without peeking at Adam’s description to see what I could pick out by myself.
On the skin, the opening notes are 100% unblanched almonds. You can smell the powdery, slightly bitter husk. After a couple of minutes, it unveiled a delicate floral note, and I detected a very fleeting hint of whisky. After quarter of an hour, I could smell parma violet coming through and then it returned to the original almond, although sweeter this time, with cherry liqueur, rich, dark stone fruits and a slightly muddy note.
Later on, the fruitiness takes over with dried stone fruit and glace cherries, although there are still faint hints of almond.
Smelling it makes me think of childhood, and that happy, relaxed, untroubled outlook.
James (verified owner) –
Has all the hallmarks of a good Blue Lotus oil. To my nose it’s beauty doesn’t immediately hit me immediately, instead it reveals itself it’s self in it’s own time.