Description
Lilac Flower Enfleurage High Quality Essential Oil
5ml -לילך סגול
Syringa vulgaris
Aroma is light floral leafy green bite, with soft honey floral and sweet powdery notes. Color is amber yellow to a peach amber color depending on the lilac colors and varieties we forage each year.
It is full of phytonutrients, antioxidants, and naturally occurring Vitamin A palmitate. It is the fat that most closely resembles human sebum, and is a potent healer of many skin issues. However, when infused with the essence of lilac from the simple exhalations of living flowers into sweet Coconut Oil, and Sunflower Oil, with small amount of babassu Oil, and Desert Date Palm Oil for its beautiful texture and feel on the skin., it becomes a lovely perfume that kisses your skin with its delicate scent.
This elegant Enfleurage Oil is made with purple, pink, and sometimes white flowers, using the cold extraction method. We used mostly organic Israeli Virgin Coconut Oil, Israeli Sunflower Oil, Babassu, and a small amount of Israeli Desert Date Palm as the base to capture the elusive scent that cannot be captured or produced in traditional methods such as steam distillation. Each year the scent may vary slightly in accordance with which lilacs are the colossal bloomers that year.
The flowers are carefully applied onto the fat base, while they exhale their gorgeous elegant aroma. Then these flowers are diligently recharged with new flowers regularly every 24 to 26 hours for 30 days or more, to coax these flowers to exhale their true scent. Not many people like working with Lilac because of it’s labor intensive process. More than 40 bushels of fresh flowers go into producing each 5ml of Lilac Enfleurage extract. One Batch is made each year and supply for the year is limited to so many limited 5ml bottles.
Benefits and Uses: Enjoy as a natural perfume by massaging a small amount to a few pulse points, Great to hydrate and conditioning the skin and hair. Perfect for lifting the mood and adding to your favorite delicate florals such as daffodil, Jasmine, magnolia, honeysuckle, and gardenia, and is lovely with lilac lavender.
What is enfleurage?
Enfleurage is a beautiful ancient technique of extracting fragrance from delicate flowers. The botanical is placed on to a layer of fat that absorbs the scent of the fresh breathing flowers. The flowers are replaced every day for an extensive period of time until the aroma is captured. The base that absorbs the flower-scented molecules is called a “pomade”.
There is a method which was devised in France in the late 18th century using animal fat such as lard, and then the fat was further mixed with alcohol then heated to burn off leaving the enfleurage oil. However, We do stop at the “pomade” stage, so NO alcohol spirits or unkosher lard fats are used in our batch because the fats we use is organic, 100% plant-based, and Kosher. This is a Pomade that is pourable because of Coconut oil and Sunflower oil base. You will be very pleased how strong the aroma is but yet so soft when it kisses your skin as a lovely natural perfume
Enfleurage Pomade Oil was also historically made in Ancient Egypt, Israel, and most of the Middle East which used the same technique of applying flowers to a base of fat long before 18th Century France started their alcohol technique. In Israel and parts of Egypt, Date Palm was most commonly used during Biblical times by very skilled perfumers and apothecaries often not only used for perfume but as a medicine too.
Historical data on Pascha, or Lilac, was scarce. However, we know that it originated in the Middle East and was used in enfleurage for many centuries, Most Likely before Europe’s use of Lilac before the 14th century. It is reported sailors traditionally used it for safe passage across the seas. It was noted Women on the Mayflower carried a sprig in their bosom, to ensure a safe passage across the Atlantic. Lilac, or Syringe vulgaris (common syringe), is proposed to have been introduced in the US at Plymouth Rock by several recorded European Refugees.
The flower is also processed for aromatic compounds added to perfumes formulas for a dark green leaf aroma with a light hint of buttery honey floral. Lilac contributes so much to the perfumer’s pallette. Our enfleurage pomade is mindfully made in very small batches when the flowers are in season. It really is labor-intensive. The aroma is subtle and true and feel you will be very pleased.
Researchers are extracting certain compounds from the bulbs to be used for Alzheimer’s treatments. the flower represents rebirth and renewal. It is thought by Science Researchers and Herbalists alike think that just inhaling its aroma can bring new memories and restore old ones in dementia patients. Of course, more research obviously needs to be done.
Keep in a cool place or a refrigerator to preserve freshness. Store away from direct sunlight, bright lights, and high temperatures.
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