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 “Naturally extracted from coconuts, this Gamma Octalactone Natural Isolate is another delightful lactone that is very close to coconut aldehyde in aroma profile but is sweeter and even fresher and lighter, closer to the heavenly scent of fresh coconut pulp and less reminiscent of the fattier dry coconut flakes.
Used in combination with aldehyde C18 it will help building very true-to-nature coconut accords for tropical-infused perfume accords, but it will also prove invaluable to impart a sweetly ripe note in fruity compositions and to soften the rough edges or other harsh off-notes of your perfume.
Gamma Octalactone Natural Isolate can also work well with other gourmand notes and in particular with our natural coumarin, with which it shares some aromatic features, but it lifts them more towards the head of the composition, whereas the coumarin would tend to sit back with the other base notes.
Like with aldehyde C18, also with Gamma Octalactone a light hand is highly recommended to impart just the right amount of coconut-infused creaminess and sweetness: used in that way it is a truly lovely material and a very useful addition to the perfumer’s palette.
Arctander has this to say “.. is a powerful Coconut-coumarinic odour with herbaceous-spicy, almost Caraway-like and warm notes. Slightly greener, but less fatty than the n-Butyl butyrolactone, also more Caraway-like. Moderate tenacity. It does not have the tenacity of Coumarin, but it introduces the olfactory effect “higher” in the fragrance, and may therefore be used as an extender for Coumarin-like effects into the top note of a fragrance. This lactone is used occasionally in perfume compositions as a modifier for Coumarin, and as a sweetener in heavy floral fragrance types, e.g. Gardenia. It gives interesting effects with Opopanax in Lavender compositions, and in Chypre, Fougere, Ambre and Oriental types with Tolu, Peru, Ylang-Ylang, Civet, Ionones, etc.”
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Anag (verified owner) –
While Aldehyde C18 is quite horrible straight from the bottle (but it does impart such lovely creaminess to the composition), this is a totally different thing. It is like coconut water to C18’s coconut milk (well, amplified coconut milk with added mushrooms for a bonus). Much fresher and light – especially at the beginning – but creamy and sweet later on (it does remind of coumarin just so slightly – like the description says – but also resembles that vanilla fullness a bit). All underlined with a lactonic spiciness – if that is a thing :).
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
I bought this oil to create fig composition with other notes but i realized that this is beauty is the picture of summer under the sun near the beach in Bahamas..the best coconut mouth watering, creamy, fresh sweet dessert i ever encountered..with a little fantasy you can use it with rose alba,gardenia, and for any gourmand perfume