by Anya McCoy | Jun 16, 2014 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, natural aromatics, Perfume From Your Garden book, raw materials of perfumery
I wish you could smell these ylang-ylangs!! They look limp, and that’s because I wilt them for an hour or so before putting into tincturing alcohol. The tincture I wrote about a few weeks ago is dark green, and saturated with so much scent, it could be ylang... 
by Anya McCoy | May 13, 2014 | Anya's Garden Perfumes, natural aromatics, natural perfumery course, Natural Perfumery Institute, Perfume From Your Garden book, raw materials of perfumery
If you have Ylang Ylang growing, you must tincture it, it’s so beautiful, so easy. My ylang-ylang is blooming here in Miami, and I gathered flowers in various stages of maturity, from green to the “ripest” with yellow petals and a red throat, and put...