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 “As I type it is 17/01/21 and a few months ago I was emailing with a client who is very clued up about his aromatics. He explained he liked my regular offering of Orange Blossom Abs from Tunisia, yet he felt it had an off note and as such it was only his second favourite. Now, this off note he refers to is comparable in my view to that of an over ripe tomato, borderline rotting which has a genuine pro and a con in this instance. The con being is you have this debatable off note, the pro being that the materials overall profile has an enhanced fruitiness throughout that is not as present in materials that are of a cleaner and prettier nature, such as this Signature Gold offering. So, purely due to the remark of this client, who in a professional capacity I have the upmost respect for, I now have two offerings of Tunisian Orange Blossom.
The margins between the two offerings are very slight, initially I am wowed by this signature offering, applied to a strip, allowed to breathe and unravel for 30 minutes, well, it is aromatically beautiful, technically perfect, it is more jumpy, feel good bright, a material just on the strip alone of which can genuinely flood a room with its hypnotic and seductive scent for many hours. And a delicateness, a finesse, a power, a never ending breeze of neroli blossoms, gently saturating your senses and imparting a deeply peaceful calm. The pastel orange floral notes, the most perfect amount of honeyed aspects and finished with a mouth-watering juicy through to dewy floral character, this signature offering really is a flawless heart note. Remember though, as with nearly all absolute oils, you must apply this to the strip in order to evaluate properly. I get approximately 5 hours of wear applied to my skin neat (for testing purposes) and whilst this lasts days on the strip, it shows all its aromatic gears within a 10 ish hour period I find, after that you move onto a slow fade.
Uses, works wonders in Oriental and spicy-balsamic creations, more so I feel when they feature materials such as myrrh, amber sweetie and cistus e.o, pairs very well generally with all macrocyclic musks and most commonly available jasmine species and is a must when making mixed media neroli/orange blossom accords through to full on citrus colognes. Should the accord suggestion be of interest, also consider a slight touch of concentrated red mandarin e.o, often overlooked due to cost, yet it injects such an accord with unparalleled mouth- watering juicy fruity effects when compared with regular single fold material.
To sum up
In my view if you seek technical brilliance, if you want pretty through to beautiful, if you want a Master Perfumers material in your aromatics palette, then this is the one you buy. If however you want a Tunisian Orange Blossom that’s a little more edgy, perhaps even a more real representation of the living blossoms (which I know extremely well now as I live in Tuscany after all!), then our other offering of Tunisian Orange Blossom Absolute will be the better fit in my opinion.
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Patrick E (verified owner) –
Simply amazing! I’m a huge fan of neroli and orange blossom. They are staples in my collection and I find myself reaching for them as much as I reach for salt and butter when cooking. This orange blossom is deep and rich, very smooth, and pleasing to the nose. No decaying notes – a personal preference as I like to bring in those notes from other scents like Oud. This is a clean and perfect orange blossom absolute.