Continuing with my series of very curious experimentations.
Got my hands on some cultivated green Kyara powder through a close friend of my fathers who is an Oud seller in China, and decided to run a simple tincture to see how it behaves in alcohol.
Working with a 5% tincture in Perfumers...
Hello fellow Ouddicts,
I am trying to get a raw tobacco leaf note and it is nothing like the tobacco tincture (which is mostly like pipe tobacco).
So I am trying to macerate / tincture some raw tobacco leaves.
My tincture is a week old and already has hints of tobacco in it. I am worried about...
hello all I hope you’re all doing wonderfully today, been a while since I’ve posted here lol.
I just had a small question about a type of material used that I never actually heard of before.
A “Vanilla Resinoid”
I was looking for a vanilla tincture product and found my way to AncientResins...
For my first one, I went for ~17%, which is now 24+ months old. The most recent one (7+ months old) is about 20% (1 part grain: 4 parts Santalum album).
I warmed each maceration only 3- 4 times for 2-3 minutes in an espresso cup - say once every 1-2 weeks (don't remember exactly) for the first...
Dear fellow ouddicts, the violet blooming season has begun here and soon the fields will turn purplish from fragrant viola flowers. I would like to make a tincture (I know enfleurage is the better way, but repeated tincturing might be much easier for me, and I don’t care about pigmentation...