ambrose_leatherin History, Bottles & Houses · Northampton ·
DiscoveryEnfleurage sounds like dressing a hide
Right then. Reading the encyclopedia page on enfleurage: you spread fat on glass, lay flowers on it and keep replacing them until the fat is saturated, then wash that pomade in alcohol to get an absolute. Jasmine and tuberose were the key flowers, and the page calls the method largely obsolete now. Sounds like dressing a hide with tallow, only sweeter. I would of liked to try it with jasmine. Cheers, Ambrose
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maeve.moss
Fat that holds on to a flower and alcohol that coaxes it back out again. Grand find, Ambrose.
frankie.incense
The article on absolutes describes the solvent route, hexane to a concrete, then ethanol, and lists rose, jasmine, tuberose, jonquil, ylang-ylang and mimosa as examples, so enfleurage was definately not the only road to one.
kit.clove
The Class on how fragrance is extracted puts enfleurage next to distillation and solvents. Good with a cup of tea.