violets and wisteria

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Violets and wisteria flowers have to be solvent treated to get an

absolute from them.

Around 1860 Parma violets ( 200t of parma flowers and 100t of leaves)

were processed in south eastern France at Vence extending to Grasse

and past it to Cabris where cher Roudnitska had his 15 acres property

later on. Then what killed the violet was overproduction, yes ,

everybody started plating parmas to no end. People can be crazy, can*t

they?, but let*s not forget to mention the introduction of ionone

(violet in Greek) in 1898 when Tiemann and Kruger isolated citral EO

from lemongrass then processed it to become alpha ionone. Perfumers

until today think that ionone has been the most beautiful product ever

invented for perfumers to work with (SFP).

The yield from parma violets was too low. The producers chose the

that were are calling the Odorata, a single flower violet,

larger and darker in color, and specifically the *Luxonne* that is

sold at the Dorset nursery. Another reason is that the parma starts

producing within 4 years where as the starts producing at the

second year and the plant can last as much as 7 years. The violet

became a bi product of the olive groves where it was planted under the

olive trees.

It takes 4000 violets to weigh one kg and the final yield is at most 4

grams of absolute, that*s about 80 drops. How much are you willing to

pay for it? The CO2 people should give it a try.

Today the world is waiting for us to go settle in La Jolla to produce

the violet absolute again.

JoAnne Bassett are you ready for this? I have been three times to the

greater San Diego area, thank you JoAnne for the invitation! It*s a

great place! I doubt that anywhere than India would it be feasible to

produce. The Blue Ridge mountains area might be a good place for

violets to grow.

I*m going back to Cyprus in May? but there are plenty of cédrat groves

in Tunisia and Morocco as well.

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