Dianthus Enfleurage.

Organic Dianthus Enfleurage. A dianthus soliflore (single note perfume) handmade using a cold enfleurage of dianthus flowers and avocado butter. The dianthus from my spring/summer gardens went into this enfleurage. The result is an organic dianthus solid perfume-- a rarity. The scent is creamy, rich, and spicy. Like carnation, it features clove notes, but my dianthus has deep, edible vanilla notes, moreso than is typical of carnation. It almost crosses over into the sweet pastille territory of Viola odorata. I have a limited quantity.Literally, "in flower," enfleurage is a traditional, labor intensive, and pure method of extracting fragrance, utilizing only fat and plant material. Enfleurage is also the method of perfume extraction that most closely replicates the odor profile of the original flower: each flower's complex fragrant arc from bud to bloom is imprinted in fat, where it is stored. The scent is true to the blossom, but subtle, requiring you to bend in close for a sniff.I hav