Guest guest Posted August 15, 2010 Report Share Posted August 15, 2010 I want to make sure I take advantage of plenty of my fruits, flowers and herbs before summer is over. I am going to tincture as much as I can. When tincturing for scent, do you use the same rules of thumb as tincturing for medicinals? I typically use 5 x as much alcohol (70%) as weight of herb. Does this sound right for perfuming too? http://www.sagescript.com microbiology, distillates, botanicals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 wrote: I want to make sure I take advantage of plenty of my fruits, flowers and herbs before summer is over. I am going to tincture as much as I can. When tincturing for scent, do you use the same rules of thumb as tincturing for medicinals? I typically use 5 x as much alcohol (70%) as weight of herb. Does this sound right for perfuming too? **************+************ I haven't seen any sure-fast rules on tincturing for perfumery, it seems to match folk method more that measured ratios. There are a few files on the forum site about it, if you havent found those yet. I can tell you 95% alcohol is preferred. The water in 70% can lead to problems blending oils, absolutes, and such in to. With your herbs and flowers, its best to slightly wilt most of them first so you dont introduce as much water into the alcohol. Fresh fruits would be a challenge for that, I have seen recommendations for using dried fruit to tincture. That was just mentioned again in the pomegranite posts. For dried herbs such as Orris Root, I used a 1:5 ratio in everclear (95% alcohol) and recharged it 3 times to get a nice powdery tincture. I did that for the purpose of reproducing it in the future with similar results. That's just a personal preference tho, and much easier to do with dried herbs. Hope that helps, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 > I haven't seen any sure-fast rules on tincturing for perfumery, it seems to match folk method more that measured ratios. There are a few files on the forum site about it, if you havent found those yet. > > I can tell you 95% alcohol is preferred. The water in 70% can lead to problems blending oils, absolutes, and such in to. > > With your herbs and flowers, its best to slightly wilt most of them first so you dont introduce as much water into the alcohol. Fresh fruits would be a challenge for that, I have seen recommendations for using dried fruit to tincture. That was just mentioned again in the pomegranite posts. > > For dried herbs such as Orris Root, I used a 1:5 ratio in everclear (95% alcohol) and recharged it 3 times to get a nice powdery tincture. I did that for the purpose of reproducing it in the future with similar results. That's just a personal preference tho, and much easier to do with dried herbs. > Hi , Folks.... If your starting to tincture, the rules such as they are for fragrance tincturing are kind of loose...If you check in the archives, this is a topic that comes up periodically...So there's info there.... The other thing I will mention, is that tinctures I have done...have gotten better as they age... So after you are done, even if you think it's a failure, or you don't have what you desire, tuck it away for a while... In some cases, *months*...... You may be pleasantly surprised....<G>....! -- W. Bourbonais L'Hermite Aromatique A.J.P. (GIA) http://www.facebook.com/Le.Hermite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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