Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Along with my peppers, I also ordered something I was longing for a long time - Tomato Leaf Absolute! Nothing more summery than the scent of tomato vines, it's such a unique and pleasant reviving experience to get your fingers yellowed by the green juice of the leaves and stems after tending to your vines and helping them climb on the fence... The absolute, however, is very thick and dark, and will require dilution to evaluate fully. At this point, non diluted, it smells much like stinky rotting weeds that were laying in the hot sun cooking all afternoon. Not very pleasant at all. Diluted - I was thinking it will bring out some positive and workable qualities; but I put about 1-2 drops into 5ml alcohol, and it smells equally horrendous and sickening. It may work for hay scents, but I won't recommend it at this point. I am quite dissapointed! If anyone here worked with this absolute, successfully, I would like to hear your tricks - would it ever smell even close to the beautiful and cheerful green tomato leaf? Thanks! p.s. I got this one from New Direction Aromatics as well. I was happy with the other oils I got though - the peppers (gorgeous), davana (very fruity and I can't wait to work with it!), key lime (much like lime but sweeter, yum!), coffee essential oil (great too!) and Rose Maroc (a centifolia) for a very reasonable price, and that smells very rosy and gorgeous. Ayala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 _____ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Ayala Sender Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: Tomato leaf absolute Along with my peppers, I also ordered something I was longing for a long time - Tomato Leaf Absolute! Nothing more summery than the scent of tomato vines, it's such a unique and pleasant reviving experience to get your fingers yellowed by the green juice of the leaves and stems after tending to your vines and helping them climb on the fence... The absolute, however, is very thick and dark, and will require dilution to evaluate fully. At this point, non diluted, it smells much like stinky rotting weeds that were laying in the hot sun cooking all afternoon. Not very pleasant at all. Diluted - I was thinking it will bring out some positive and workable qualities; but I put about 1-2 drops into 5ml alcohol, and it smells equally horrendous and sickening. It may work for hay scents, but I won't recommend it at this point. I am quite dissapointed! If anyone here worked with this absolute, successfully, I would like to hear your tricks - would it ever smell even close to the beautiful and cheerful green tomato leaf? Thanks! p.s. I got this one from New Direction Aromatics as well. I was happy with the other oils I got though - the peppers (gorgeous), davana (very fruity and I can't wait to work with it!), key lime (much like lime but sweeter, yum!), coffee essential oil (great too!) and Rose Maroc (a centifolia) for a very reasonable price, and that smells very rosy and gorgeous. Ayala Hi Ayala, I looked at New Direction Aromatics because your descriptions sounded wonderful. I was astounded at the prices for Rose Maroc absolute, which they described as rosa centifolia. They wanted something in the neighborhood of $350 a pound. centifolia absolute is hard to find, as you know, and is always very expensive, even directly from Grasse suppliers: more like $3500 a pound. In the description of rose maroc, the narrative described it as damask rose, clearly an error. Just to see what else they had, I looked at jasmine grandiflorum absolute. They say it is from France. They are asking $630 a pound. This price is simply not possible. Even from India. I am just a tad suspicious of this outfit. Does anyone else have any experience with them? Steve Earl Glen Custom Perfumery 26 Applewood Lane Avon, CT 06001 (860) 424-7051 G-C-P@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 At 05:57 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote: >I looked at New Direction Aromatics because your descriptions sounded >wonderful. I was astounded at the prices for Rose Maroc absolute, which >they described as rosa centifolia. They wanted something in the >neighborhood of $350 a pound. centifolia absolute is hard to find, as >you know, and is always very expensive, even directly from Grasse suppliers: >more like $3500 a pound. In the description of rose maroc, the narrative >described it as damask rose, clearly an error. Just to see what else they >had, I looked at jasmine grandiflorum absolute. They say it is from France. >They are asking $630 a pound. This price is simply not possible. Even from >India. I am just a tad suspicious of this outfit. Does anyone else have >any experience with them? Hi Steve, Ayala: I remember looking at their site a while ago, and seeing some innacuracies regarding photos not matching essences, and incorrect descriptions of extraction methods. My memory is fuzzy on it all, but I just surfed off the site. They seemed to have an extensive collection of essences, and I believe they have been in business a long time. I think they recently expanded, hence the mixed-up photos, names, descriptions. Just struck me as a bit sloppy. Could the low prices be a typo? Did you click on the shopping cart? If it is a typo, and they don't know it, they're going to go broke. If it isn't a typo, like Steve implies, there is something very wrong. Anya http://.com The premier site on the Web to discover the beauty of Natural Perfume / Join to study natural perfumery " The Age of the Foodie is passé. It is now the Age of the Scentie. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 > If anyone here worked with this absolute, successfully, I would like > to hear your tricks - would it ever smell even close to the beautiful > and cheerful green tomato leaf? (snipped OT by moderators to save bandwidth ;-) BTW, there have been recent threads in the group about folks smelling synthetics but never sniffing the real deal... I was in a supermarket today that was selling Daffodils among their floral displays - was astounded that it is Narcissus (not poeticus, of course) but Narcissus. An awakening, to be sure! But, does it smell anything near the absolute of poeticus? not!!!! reminds me more of Ylang! the same scenario with many of our other absolutes.... why should tomato leaf be any different? Diluting, I've found, is the key to this absolute and many, many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 > p.s. I got this one from New Direction Aromatics as well. I was happy > with the other oils I got though - the peppers (gorgeous), davana > (very fruity and I can't wait to work with it!), key lime (much like > lime but sweeter, yum!), (snipped again, darlinks, to save 'bandwith') their key lime is absolutely delicious! and their davana is undeniably divine as well! as for the rose maroc, Steve, can't say - never ordered it , though the prices do seem outrageously low.Let's be careful, though, not to presume anything - impossible is not a word I ever use - anything IS possible - for many of us - how 'bout calling their customer support and getting some answer? Steve?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 > their key lime is absolutely delicious! and their davana is undeniably divine as well! That's the one I forgot to mention. I just sampled Davana recently (a fellow perfumer was very kind and sent me some samples of notes I haven't tried before), and than just ordered it from them as it is not a vey precious oil. It is so fruity and luscious - a true delight! Never worked with it before, and am looking forward to it. I think it can lend a lovely fruity aroma (not of a specific fruit, just fruity...). Maybe it can even turn a clary sage into something beautiful, who knows? If you have any suggestions and recommendations for what can be added to this, please let me know! Thanks, Ayala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 I thought Tomato leaf was poisoned. Because it's family from the potato. (nightshade family). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Ayala Sender wrote: > > That's the one I forgot to mention. I just sampled Davana recently (a > fellow perfumer was very kind and sent me some samples of notes I > haven't tried before), and than just ordered it from them as it is not > a vey precious oil. It is so fruity and luscious - a true delight! > Never worked with it before, and am looking forward to it. I think it > can lend a lovely fruity aroma (not of a specific fruit, just > fruity...). Someone once said that it smells like strawberries. Having read that, I gave it another whiff and thought it was rather like strawberry candy. -Xplo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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