Gardenia and Civet Enfleurage.

Gardenia and Civet Enfleurage ☽•☾ organic, whole plant☽•☾I first fixed the enfleurage pommade with my animalic extrait, cured for a year. I gently worked it into organic mango, avocado and Shea nilotica butters emulsified with raw beeswax to fix the pommade for enfleurage. I spread this musky aphrodisiac base and let it harden before laying fresh gardenia flowers on it, recharging daily with my dozen gardenia jasminoides cultivars until saturated. Limited quantity. To learn more about the enfleurage process generally and at Wild Veil, please continue reading below. Photos: enfleurage pommade with fresh flowers and my organic gardenias in bloom, enfleurage in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass jars.☽•☾ Wild Veil's Gardenia Enfleurage: Each day fresh blossoms are culled and laid on the pommade (plant based fats and waxes), and spent blossoms are removed. This ancient technique is the only method of scent extraction that captures the entire arc of a flower's headspace, from opening to last