Gardenia and Bushman Candle Enfleurage.

Gardenia and Bushman Candle Enfleurage ☽•☾ vegan, organic, whole plant☽•☾I first fixed the enfleurage pommade with my absolute/resinoid of Sarcocaulon mossamedense (bushman candle, wild, collected by the Himba in parts of Namibia and Angola). I tinctured the raw material, a waxy bark that has desiccated in the desert heat, for 6 months, then used natural evaporation to slowly reduce the solution to an absolute. The absolute is sticky, hard, at 100% concentration and smells like brown sugar and brown butter, musk, and frankincense; it has a crackling fiery energy like wood smoke, without the acridity of smoke. I gently worked it into organic shea nilotica to fix the pommade for enfleurage. I spread this amber, caramel, and incense scented fat and I laid fresh flowers on it, recharging daily with over ten of my gardenia jasminoides cultivars until saturated. Limited quantity.   Photos: wild harvested bushman candle prior to tincture, my organic gardenias, and fresh flowers on the enfleu