26th April at 7.35pm: A quick update. Many parcels have left today. The situation is as follows, we still have one order left to process for the 10th (Paris retailer), one for the 11th and a lot more still for the 15th through to the 18th - mostly USA wholesale orders. The plan now is to work on orders across the weekend and by no later than Tuesday 30th - every order placed upto the 18th will be dispatched. Ideally they will all be out by Monday 29th but based on how I called it wrong recently I think it's better to call it for Tuesday. I'll update on order lead times for the 19th onwards on Monday 29th. It goes without saying that I am very sorry about the lead-time but like the lab and staff, it is now just a matter of a month or so before we are better organised, holding larger stocks of each aromatic, and in turn the lead-times will drastically improve going forward. Ok, back on Monday and thank you to everyone for the continued support. Thank you, Adam : )
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 “Ok, let me warn you all in advance, I have got very lucky (09/06/22) and pulled off a real score here, so expect product content loaded with positivity, joy and plenty of superlatives!
This aromatic came about because I don’t leave any stone unturned. I became aware of this producer a few years ago, however due to falling in with some Indian producers I never looked at what this Indonesian producer was able to offer. But thankfully I did write his telephone number down in my contact book. A small diary sized leather bounded book that is stuffed to the brim with names and numbers of producers.
Now as most know, the Indians in question proved to be one-time wonders, sad but genuinely true. For me, in the moment, they showed us all a glimpse of sandalwood paradise in varying artistic forms, but also these producers showed us that they didn’t unfortunately have the skills to keep grinding out the results.
So recently, I was looking through my contact book, I noticed this Indonesian producer and made the telephone call. A few weeks later this sample submission followed, and low and behold I came away so impressed that I put in an order a few days later.
What I love about this Indo Gold is that true to CO2 form, it has a warm creamy woody buttery bright opening with a hint of lemon-orange candied freshness, cedarwood atlas character and tinged with gourmand qualities of sorts that is a little reminiscent of smelling bran absolute and Play-Doh. This opening also partly reminds me of the smell of homemade creamy-rice pudding with nutmeg spice worked into it. The smoothness of this aromatic is clear as day whether applied on skin, strip and even when directly compared with some of our more fancy Indian offerings.
The engine here is once again animalic tuned – clean-musky, clean-human skin and ambergris. At times I find leathery-woody-resinous tonalities, and scent that reminds me of walking into a carpenters work room, that instant explosion of wood shavings, freshness, dampness, dryness, sweetness, a smorgasbord of woody scents are all present here throughout. And in keeping with Indonesian materials I again find the saturated roasted nutty-wood DNA, different to our Kupang e.o though, as there is zero sharpness here.
Santalol content comes in at 70%, produced from S.album logs estimated to be around 50 years of age, a select extract, golden-amber to syrup-red in colour subject to weight/volume, of a slightly thick gloopy viscosity, and from 0.5ml applied on my forearms (neat) I get a respectable five hours of solid wear before the scent slowly fades away. Everything considered this really is a damn fine bottle of sandalwood that I think all sandalwood enthusiasts can enjoy : )
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Wilco L (verified owner) –
though i did NOT appreciate the vial it came in at all and ended up with me messing with it and wasting about 1/4 (with oud I would go crazy), be sure to hold the dripper against the side and most will fall back into the bottle, but since it’s so full it’s problematic. That being said I do love the warm inviting scent. Despite the initial vial stress I think somehow the image goes well with the scent. 🙂 It makes for a warm, relaxing and cozy attar, perfect in winter. I still want to try an alcohol solution as sandalwood tends to open up in alcohol, sometimes more sillage than the pure oil. So I am curious and about that and pleased with the purchase. I would give 5 stars but because of the vial 4.
Adam A (verified owner) –
From the five sandalwood samples I ordered from Hermitage, this one is my favorite. To start, this one has the strongest scent when smelling right out of the bottle. It is extremely smooth! It doesn’t have any of the sour notes that are sometimes present in sandalwoods. To my nose it has a very subtle orange pulp scent that gives it vibrancy and character. It has a subtle, almost Caramelized vanilla quality after about 15 minutes on the skin. am especially pleased because this one happens to be one of the more affordable sandalwood options on Hermitage. Creamy smooth and bright all at the same time. This is a gorgeous, high quality sandalwood CO2 and I will definitely be getting more!