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 “The top notes of this vetiver essential oil are sun-baked, dry-earthy and pond-wet-grassy. The heart and base notes are rich-vegetative, rich-woody and sweet-rooty throughout. Amber red brown in colour, of a pourable, fine treacle consistency and produced by steam distilling the cleaned and dried South Indian rootlets. Vetiver essential oil is phenomenally tenacious, exuding such a beautiful aroma and is an absolute essential purchase for all vetiver connoisseurs.”
Mark Evans has this to say “This excellent quality vetiver oil from Southern India is robust, tenacious and comparable to the very best Indonesian oils. The fragrance has all the rich and complex, dry baked earthiness, sweet, woody, cumin seed rootiness and smoky depth that vetivers are prized for. After a long time on the blotter the earthiness dissipates to be replaced with delightfully swampy, green and grassy, exotic aromatics which remain present for days.
The incredible complexity of vetiver oil is due to the fact that the long roots that are steam distilled not only have many hundreds of fine rootlets that are in direct contact with the soil in which it grows, but also delve deep into the earth, up to 2m down. All of the earth’s subtle and rare molecules are absorbed into its vascular system which in turn transforms them into a galaxy of molecules within the plant. This also explains why vetiver oil can differ so greatly between growing regions. Differences in soil and climate are reflected in the composition of this robust plant which seems able to grow successfully anywhere, regardless of the terroir.
Did you know that vetiver is also used as a refrigerant throughout Southern Asia? Its dried roots are woven into mats and linen to provide a cooling effect. Vetiver reeds are also woven into screens which are hung over windows to cool the air during the hot summer months. The roots are even used in cooling tisanes and candy!
In perfumery, vetiver oil’s complexity and heavy notes make it a fixative and blender par excellence. When used with a light hand, it unites every part of a composition from the top notes to the base. When used at higher levels, it can also provide unique, strong effects in fougere, chypre and oriental type compositions.”
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joseph1 (verified owner) –
Vetiver is probably my favourite essential oil. This Vetiver exemplifies the classic rooty, well-rounded Vetiver note that I love so so much. When you smell this, you become the ground from which Vetiver grows – the depth is intoxicatingly beautiful, but not at all overwhelming. It has such width and range, along with such grounding and embracing qualities that I feel it to be an extraordinary foundation for all types of creations.
Thomas (verified owner) –
Adam, you said : “sun-baked, dry-earthy and pond-wet-grassy”, well, I agree. This one is definitely more earthy and rooty than your vetiver hydro. Even more difficult to mix in a perfume accord, especially because of its earthy facet. Or, maybe in a tiny amount within a woody accord, in order to bring a “forest” or “fougère” note to it. However, I cannot help from sniffing the bottle. “Call me a Philistine !”
Esta Bån (verified owner) –
Like all other reviews – which are spot on. I would add a petrichor smell unique to Kerala (South Indian) in the first monsoon rains (August). In Kerala vetiver root is added to boiling water for a sweet medicinal water which is the most thirst quenching substance on the planet! – very reminiscent of that too.
enachison (verified owner) –
This is a beautiful vetiver. I agree with Adam – it has a sun baked dry earthy quality while also possessing the wet grassy undertones of “classic” vetiver. I have been using this South Indian Vetiver absolute as both a foundation and accessory aspect when making desert inspired scents. For me, the dry, warm aspects of this absolute conjure the heat of the desert.