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Carnation Memories.
The sharp, sweet spice of old-fashioned clove pinks, the scent today's long-lasting florist carnations have mostly lost, rebuilt from pure essential oils and absolutes as a small, nostalgic perfume.
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About this product
May mornings, a bundle of flowers carried in from the garden, and a sharp, sweet spice filling the whole house. Old-fashioned clove pinks, the small cousins of the carnation, smelled like that. The florist's carnations of today, bred to last for weeks in a vase, mostly do not.
Perfumery books offer carnation accords built on ylang ylang and clove bud, perhaps with black pepper, but none of them smelled like the memory. So our blender made dozens of trials, starting from the basic recipes and the technical texts of Arctander and Tony Burfield, until one felt just right. It is not the modern florist's flower. It is the older one, the one in the garden, made of pure essential oils and absolutes, and made for its scent alone.
Details
- A perfume blend of pure essential oils and absolutes
- Offered as an undiluted synergy, or as a skin-safe 10% dilution in fractionated coconut oil
How to use
Touch the 10% dilution to your wrists and throat, as you would any perfume. Keep the undiluted synergy for your own blending, and dilute it before it meets your skin.
A garden from another May, kept in a very small bottle.
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Carnation Memories
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