Ever wanted to find out what real botanic fragrances are truly like on their own, straight out, not blended or 'enhanced'?
 
These Precious Gourmand Dilutions are a selection of precious oils; favourite and popular delicious scents, diluted in certified organic Jojoba Oil. (Perfumers prefer to use pure Jojoba or Fractionated Coconut Oil as these have virtually no odour and will not interfere with assessing a botanical note.)
 
Why diluted oils?
Trialling in a dilution gives you a gentle introduction to each ingredient's message, as full strength essential oils, absolutes and CO2 extractions can sometimes be overpowering.
 
Each single note gourmand is presented in 10% dilution so you can experience the subtle nuances of each fragrance. This dilution percentage provides enough scent molecules to decipher comfortably.
 
Choose from The Set or select single samples.
 
Vanilla Oleoresin - The dessert dream, the most delicious of all the oils. It's luxurious aroma is used in the most decadent foods, drinks and cosmetics. Find out what the real vanilla smells like. This is an oleoresin in 30 fold strength. It's thick, dark and gooey in its raw form, just like squeezing a dried, plump vanilla bean. Diluting it enhances the scent because in its raw form can be suprisingly 'dirty' smelling! ;)
 
Coffee - Wake up and smell the beans! This delicious roasted coffee absolute will bring you all the caffiene happiness memories and have you salivating for a latte asap. As with the vanilla oleoresin, this can smell dirty and bitter at full strength. The dilution allows the gentler, rounded tones of the coffee bean to come through without the bitterness.
 
Cinnamon Bark - The real smell of sweet treats baking. Cinnamon Bark is a warm, emotional hug but without dilution it is a powerful skin irritant. Spicy, sweet, intoxicatingly lovely, cinnamon bark can be added to florals to form a classic 'oriental' fragrance. A little goes a loooong way. Use it as a 'one drop' additive to perfumes to create subtle botanical musk and extended longevity.
 
Fennel Sweet - Bright, sassy and refreshing, the anise/liquorice notes of sweet fennel are used in more foods and beverages than you possibly think. It's also the starting point for a lot of men's fragrances. Pair it with a citrus or citrus-floral to really see it shine. As a dilution, you're getting the musk-lolly tones that have led it into the role of aftershave additive extrordinaire. 
 
Nutmeg - Another must have spice full of homely happiness, botanical musk, and the ability to explode other oils, especially useful with resins and woods. If you are up for a challenge, enjoy using nutmeg in 'one drop' amount with about 2ml of Rose 10% dilution (or a simple Rose Geranium oil) to enjoy a fresh carnation bloom experience.
 
Ginger - Warming, comforting and uplifting, the scent of real ginger root is spicy and gets the saliva glands going. Used in tiny amounts to create curiosity in perfumery. It can add a 'dusty' note to florals or bring a little heat to cooler blends for balance.
 
Rosemary - Unassumingly used in our culinary lives for millennia, the scent of fresh Rosemary is very much like the scent from the essential oil distilled from the plant. Refreshing to the extreme it is an oil to be used sparingly. It 'explodes' citrus blends, brings a fresh infusion to mint and other herbals.
 
Pink Grapefruit - Sweet, citrus, zesty and floral all in one. It's mouth-watering. Added to high end perfume blends to thin out an extrait so it's more affordable, the blessing in this is that Pink Grapefruit is a short-lived scent, so the precious oils end up being 'on stage' quickly after the opening act of citrus-floral. 
 
Spearmint - Fresh, sweet and delicious, the scent that is a boiled lolly in a bottle. Add it to other gourmand scents like Rosemary, Vanilla, Cacao and Cinnamon in tiny amounts to create interesting pathways through well known scent trails.
 
 
Enjoy creating space in your day to enjoy these as singular experiences, or if you are a budding Perfumer, try combining one, two or three after assessing them individually.
 
All ingredients used are either certified organic, wild-crafted and or pure essential oils (distilled or cold pressed), Absolutes and CO2 extractions.