10th May at 6.30pm: Today we have lost a little ground on the progress we have been making of late. The area we live in was without electricity from the early morning until late this afternoon. However by Tuesday all the May orders on our books will be dispatched. And I am now aiming at addressing the wholesale list from early next week - it will happen I promise. Good news on the SDS front, we received another batch of them including for plantation ouds and across next week they will be uploaded to the site. Please remember SDS are only available by logging into your account and going to the SDS section. Here you find everything on file connected to your purchases. Ok, we are taking the weekend off now for some family time, so we will be out of contact until Monday. Thanks to everyone as always for your support of our little business and if it's ever possible to leave reviews please do so as they help improve the website experience for everyone that visits. Thank you, Adam : )
Recap - new materials recently added - 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, Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto) Thank you, Adam : )
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.”
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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!