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accidentally returned my rose absolute for rosewood -_-
prolly gonna try to get the absolute still but
I've never worked with rosewood
ne1 musings?
prolly gonna try to get the absolute still but
I've never worked with rosewood
ne1 musings?
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Re: Rosewood oil
Wed, January 14, 2009 - 10:04 AMI read somewhere there are two rosewoods. One is a wood from South America. Its got some rosiness to it, but its a bit more camphoraceous.
The other one is actually made from steam distilling branches of rose plants. I haven't smelled that (and I can't seem to actually find it) but its suppose to be rose like with a strong green planty smell. Like how petitgrain is like neroli, only greener.
I did do a mixture recently using the first rosewood and some rose absolute to see if it would work well as a way to make the rose stretch. It was okay, but I think geranium would have done a better job. Also, it was for a bath salt (christmas present for the my mother) so I think it all works out. -
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Re: Rosewood oil
Wed, January 14, 2009 - 10:05 AMoh the distilled roseplant branches are usually under the french name bois de rose. (Literally wood of rose) -
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Re: Rosewood oil
Sat, January 24, 2009 - 9:16 PMI always thought rose and rosewood weren't related
I've been using a lot of Jasmine
though might have gotten a sinus cold from over usage
it is very tenacious -
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Re: Rosewood oil
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 11:35 AMlike I said, there are two rosewoods. One is literally a wood, from South America named Rosewood, which is most commonly found and called rosewood.
The other one is distilled rose branches usually under the name bois du rose. If you can find it. -
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Re: Rosewood oil
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 1:23 PMbuying from france is an obvious starting point.
expensive (bois du rose)
and there are two types of rosewood from the tropics, perhaps 3.
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