6 reviews for Katrafay E.O WILD CRAFTED
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17th March Update at 9.45pm: All retail orders on our books placed between 6th to 13th March will be dispached by no later than the 19th March. All retail orders placed between 14th to 17th March will be dispatched by no later than the 22nd March. Thank you, Adam )
8th February Update at 1.40pm: The website has now been tweaked with the message below. Until early May we now supply to European Union countries only. By early May we will be better organised and able to handle a much larger workload per day. Once in place, USA, Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates will be switched back on. I have also updated the FAQ and mention this within that page. On the new product front, within the next 3 weeks, I am releasing Tuscan Green Olive Absolute Signature Gold, this project has been two years in the making, the end result is the most incredible olive absolute you will ever experience - it is light years superior to the Egyptian offering we and others carry. I am also going to release Italian Oakwood absolute, another custom production for Hermitage, plus I'll introduce Violet Leaf Concrete, and at least one of my 5 new Persian Rose Ottos for sale. If time allows I am going to release a wonderful Mitti Attar and two new Nagarmotha offerings as I want to put together a collection for Nagarmotha to showcase the vast differences in profile you can obtain. And finally I am definitely going to ramp up the wholesale list even further by introducing many more of our existing aromatics this month with wholesale options. Thank you and I will write again now here across early next week. Adam : )
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Adam Michael has this to say “Katrafay essential oil is deeply stimulating, exuding a most exquisite masculine aroma that is a perfume in its own right. Dry, woody, green, earthy, fulsome, warm, clean throughout. For perfumery uses, an absolute must for male grooming products, for building forest floor accords, the perfect middle material (in my opinion) for pairing sandalwood with cedarwoods, works delightfully with pepper oils, green, black, pink etc, improving the smooth and creamy characteristics effortlessly. Also works very well within citrus colognes, more so those that contain yuzu or cedrat and generally katrafay is a really useful material to have on hand at all times.
The tree grows chiefly in Madagascar and is for me at least, visually stunning as the leaves on the branches are pear shaped and noticeably spaced. The tree which grows to heights of about 6.5 metres also produces a flower and is used in Hasmanga which is a religious ceremony; in fact when these religious ceremonies take place and an animal is sacrificed and cooked it is only the katrafay plant parts that are used to keep the open fire going. Katrafay essential oil is obtained by steam distilling the bark and the colour is gorgeous yellow gold. Picture taken at the Ranunafama National Park, Madagascar.”
Botanical Name: Cedrelopsis grevei
Origin: Madagascar
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rolandujvari (verified owner) –
Masculine, exciting, sparkling spice.
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
Sometimes you need to be a gambler too and order blindly some oils and especially in hermitage store you you can’t go wrong..Katrafay is a masculine oil that has that citrus underneath tone ..its warm and almost spicy..i love it
Peter D (verified owner) –
Somewhere between cedarwood and vetiver, but lighter and with a slight green-ness – also with a stony/earthy undertone, like the smell just before it starts raining. I could see this being a very useful material.
vivienne.c (verified owner) –
Initial overview of Katrafay made me sigh a little as I willed it to be a beautiful addition to my fragrances and an inspiring individual oil. I came back to it serveral weeks later with my business partner to review it with fresh synapses and the joy of jalepenos, unpolished wooden surfaces and a yomp through the Scottish bracken. Wild and tantalising.
John (verified owner) –
Very green, very enlivening. Masculine, with a spiciness that reminds me ever-so-slightly of opening a jar of pickled gherkins.
KimRiccelli (verified owner) –
Another one of those materials that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it. Blending with it is almost cheating. Throw it at basically anything and that thing will be improved. While it certainly is a masculine leaning scent, it does incredible things to heavy florals, and helps balance overly sweet accords beautifully. Or go full throttle and pair it with a dark Papuan Oud along with some citrus and pepper (black pepper absolute, I’m looking at you!) and you’ll feel like Indiana Jones dusting off his fedora after narrowly escaping death and making off with the temple’s loot!