Lilac and Wild Vermont Fir Balsam Enfleurage.

The Wild Veil Lilac and Vermont Fir Balsam Enfleurage is an organic, whole plant perfume made using the traditional method of cold enfleurage of fresh lilac flowers from my family's 40 year old heirloom French lilacs. I first fixed the pommade with my in-house absolute of Abies balsamea boughs and needles. I had tinctured the raw material, which I gathered sustainably from wild stands of fir balsam in the old growth forest at my childhood home, then used natural evaporation to slowly reduce the solution to an absolute. The absolute is deep green, at 100% concentration and smells like strawberry leather, young conifer tips, and the telltale mark of fir balsam, gumstope: gumstope - (adjective) having the scent of starch based adhesive or gum used to line the flaps of envelopes or previously the backs of stamps, activated by moisture (in practice usually saliva).      Etymology           From gum + stamp + envelope.   I gently worked my handmade fir balsam absolute into an emulsion of