Wild Black Spruce Soliflore. Natural perfume from wild stands of Picea mariana in Vermont's taiga. August 2024
Wild Vermont Black Spruce Soliflore ☽•☾ Organic, handmade, single note solid perfume from black spruce boughs. Collected from wild stands in old growth Vermont bogland at my home. ☽•☾ Wild Vermont Black Spruce Soliflore ☽•☾ Do you want to smell like a tree in the taiga? A muskeg black spruce standing tall and lean against the peat? Grape colored cones clustered at the crown, sphagnum bog below. Secretly preserving a blackberry jam perfume, a vessel which when dead will be draped in fruticose lichen, old man's beard, and evernia, the gray-green curtains of the swamp? If so my multifaceted soliflore from Picea mariana boughs collected in spring will help you get there. I collected broken black spruce foliage from the hemiboreal primeval forest at my home, where it grows like weeds, and left it in tincture for a year to develop a sweet, jammy, aroma. I then used the old methods of slow evaporation to preserve the delightful top notes, resulting in a thick resinoid. This single note perfum