I notice you do put yourself and abilities down quite a bit. You're quite knowledgeable, learning skills is supposed to be hard, that's how you know you're growing! When it becomes easy/rote that's when you should be concerned!
Agreed and in fact I was just thinking to myself how the way you @MaxFromHolland are approaching things is the way that leads to clear perception, growth, etc.
Very nice. There are tons of small apples just hanging on abandoned unpruned trees around here that used to be part of old orchards etc.. I have a jar of an apple resinoid I purchased years ago (1996) from one of the French extraction pioneers - it's kind of like a paste of apple cider scent, as a resinoid I guess extracted from dried apples - I'm not sure. Was thinking I should give something with the apples a shot but I'm not sure this is the year for it - I've got a queue of things here to work on.
That resinoid sounds nice. I should try extracting some fruits some day. Closest i got was strawberry plants, of which the extract smells of strawberries, funny plant.
I'm not crazy about it honestly which is part of the reason why I still have most of it after all this time. The particular aspect of the apple aroma that it captures is not one that I've ever felt inclined to incorporate into perfume... so I have been pondering distilling the peels over alcohol or something like that
Add a little yeast and some time and you might be on to something 😉
hey no drinking direct from the stock bottles!
There is this vintage absolue with smell of cider with hints of wood and wax. Dark brown paste, from a French house, très expensive (although everything from that particular seller is) 🙂 Probably interesting for those into 'boozy' perfume notes. That's made by enfleurage of shavings btw.
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Bubbles are getting bigger, which tells me increasing viscosity, in other words the base fraction of the patch and ceder are distilling over.
Ended the run after 36 hrs. Hydrosol still fresh but kind of losing body, and it was either this or add 10 hrs (job).
I really like the type of spice note coming from the ginger, it has both something sharp and soft. Very curious how this is going to evolve and whether the patch will shed its fresh distilled green without losing the apple green and ginger freshness. 🙂 Time will tell, somewhere mid december, aww patience..
I had a similar flashback moment years ago when I was living in oregon. I have posted about it here in the past... i was walking through tree-lined streets in Portland in the autumn and there were deep piles of leaves on the ground... as I moved further into this neighborhood I began to get this weird feeling like I was back in Brooklyn, where I grew up as a child. For the first minute I had no idea what it was, I wasn't even sure it was the aroma of the air in particular because it was a subtle aroma that gradually grew in intensity as I walked... then in an instant pretty much it hit me… it was the particular smell of the autumn leaves. The streets where I grew up were heavily planted with sycamore trees and I knew the smell of those leaves like the back of my hand but the last time I had really been in their presence was before I had really started tuning into fragrance. Very much a kind of "petrichor from my past" because it was a pretty subtle dry leafy mineral type aroma that came from the combination of the concrete and the leaves and whatever else you find in an urban environment.
Fascinating how that works, not just the memory of a scent but the brain paining an entire picture if not movie around it.
Whoa 🤪 that is a bonkers combo. I need to start making something so I can trade with people.
