Guest guest Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 ________________________________ To: NaturalPerfumery Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 9:20:33 AM Subject: tinctures Hi all, Doing some online reading, I found alot of herbal tinctures. I understand that is done for a different result. One thing I had not read with this group, is that the herbs are aired until limp to reduce the water content. Is this a part of a perfume tincture? Thanks all, ************************************************************************* Hi , Yes, it is also true in perfumery. Generally you want to reduce the water content in the herbs to further concentrate the aroma in the resulting tincture. Patty Ganache for Lips http://www.ganacheforlips.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Prabha wrote: Since so many of you are into tincturing, could you please educate me as to which materials give a better diffusion and are more lasting than their eos or absolutes? That is to say, which mateials you would rather use as a tincture, than its eos , abs etc? Thank you in advance. Prabha ************ Hi Prabha, There are others who can probably answer your question more directly than I can, but to me it seems like tictures of materials that are very costly otherwise are great candidates many times. Jasmine Absolute is beautiful, but isnt a really cheap aromatic to buy. I found a beautiful jasmine plant at a local nursery for $6, so gladly brought that home and tried my hand at enfleurage. The result was incredible, and I have a beautiful pommade that could be used many ways and was cheaper to produce. I hear of tinctures of jasmines, champacas, osmanthus, and such and those are the ones I would try if they grew here. You get a closer connection producing it yourself, and when you have a plant growing with an abundance of flowers, what a great way to use it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 > > > Since so many of you are into tincturing, could you please educate me > as to which materials give a better diffusion and are more lasting > than their eos or absolutes? That is to say, which mateials you would > rather use as a tincture, than its eos , abs etc? > Thank you in advance. > Prabha > > > Most people make tinctures of things they cannot obtain essential oils or absolutes of...such as rare flowers, fruits, and wierd and interesting things just to see what happens! Sometimes it's also a cheaper way to get the fragrance as absolutes can be very expensive.... Ambrosia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 > Most people make tinctures of things they cannot obtain essential oils > or absolutes of...such as rare flowers, fruits, and wierd and > interesting things just to see what happens! > Sometimes it's also a cheaper way to get the fragrance as absolutes can > be very expensive.... > > Ambrosia > Yep. I've been tincturing tropical and summer fruitsm as we cannot have pineapple, mango, peach, banana etc etc eoils or abs. I dry them for many hours intially, in a food dehydrator. Am yet to play with them in any perfume-tinkering-creations. { The less said about a whole container of lovingly chopped and dried fruits in snap lock bags in my freezer - yes the bags were labelled, but not the container - and the extra-efficient efforts of members of my family who cleared the freezer and fridge for our recent house move, the better... sob...;D } Margi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Since so many of you are into tincturing, could you please educate me as to which materials give a better diffusion and are more lasting than their eos or absolutes? That is to say, which mateials you would rather use as a tincture, than its eos , abs etc? > Thank you in advance. > Prabha Hi Prabha, There are various reasons to make tinctures. Some materials are solid or semi solid so a tincture is made (civet, musk, ambergris for example), some don't exist as an EO or absolute, and some tinctures are made so that the perfumer has a softer, more delicate version of what you would get from an absolute or EO (for example, vanilla absolute is much more potent than a vanilla tincture). You can also make tinctures of certain resins and use them as fixatives for some delicate floral blends (benzoin, styrax, etc). I hope this helps a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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