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 : )
Eleonora Scalseggi has this to say “Cypress absolute, together with fir, pine and juniper absolute is the proof of coniferous materials’ vast potential as perfumery ingredients, despite remaining still fundamentally underestimated, and truly undeservedly so. Often overlooked and easily dismissed because their essential oils seem a better fit for alpine-themed functional products rather than fine fragrance, these coniferous materials completely transform into something very special and full of character when turned into absolutes.
Cypress absolute is no different. The essential oil is certainly not unpleasant, but it doesn’t remotely possess the characterful intensity of this material, nor its complexity. Deliciously sappy and jammy like most conifer-derived absolutes, cypress absolute is also gently smoky, incense-y and dry woody, leaning somewhat in the direction of our gin-dry juniper absolute, green, slightly bitter, and with a little touch of wood dust that once diluted down and applied to my skin reminds me also of a gentler shade of nootka Essential Oil.
As such it can work very well in woody accords, more so those with a smoky twist or an incense-y vibe, with cedarwoods, with incense wood (possibly its soulmate), hinoki, frankinceses, with labdanums and overall, with Mediterranean and Far-East-themed compositions, keeping in mind that like with our gin-dry juniper absolute, this material has a more serious demeanour about it, that imparts it an almost spiritual, meditative character.
It is perhaps for this precise scent profile and for the tree’s shape itself, all reaching towards the sky, that since very ancient times cypresses have been associated with yearning for the divine, along with being used as a landmark for spiritual, prestigious or otherwise important places. In fact, the latter is a very well alive tradition here Tuscany, to the extent that cypresses are still to date considered an outright symbol of our region.”
Please note that this absolute is only listed on a trial basis at the moment, and as such is in practice a limited-edition material. We might review this decision in the near future, also based on the support this absolute will receive from our customers. So, if you purchased this and loved it, please let us know with a review. Thank you 🙂
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Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
A very warm and excellent cypress abs almost like i detect some rosemary abs or spinach leaf abs..with lots of thick fresh forest pine trees and with a velvet aura of green aspects surrounding this material..i like it very much for colognes and to empower forest theme compositions!
Todd K (verified owner) –
I am not at all surprised this one sold out. Just as I was getting ready to smash the ‘Add to Basket’ button. Super special with black pepper…
Nicholas N (verified owner) –
I enjoy this cypress quite a lot, it’s not remotely similar to essential oil or co2 cypress extractions. The absolute is quite musky and dense with an undertone of something like black currant, a thick and sticky coniferous delight.
Carter M (verified owner) –
100% unsurprised this sold out. 100% in love with it. 100% writing this review selfishly, in hopes of convincing Adam to re-invest in a new batch of it and make it available again soon. It’s such a nice, soothing, sticky-sweet material—rather candy-like, even, but it’s candy that comes straight from heaven’s kitchen, hovers at the level of your third eye and demands it open up, then lodges itself in there and keeps it open for hours and hours. It’s so exalting and spiritual without evoking any particular religion or other (thank hell) that I’m hard-pressed not to say that if the soul has a smell, it smells like this. Simply gorgeous.