Guest guest Posted September 4, 2008 Report Posted September 4, 2008 So essences = essential oils, absolutes, and extracts? Hi Lori What Gary is referring to is any aromatic extract of a plant. Some people lump them all together and call then essential oils, but that's not really accurate, because many of them are not extracted using distillation. So in natural perfumery, many of us refer to them as " essences " to cover the whole lot of them. Patty Quote
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2008 Report Posted September 4, 2008 Hi Lori Well, essences can be extracted by various means. They can be essential oils and absolutes, as you mentioned. They can also be concretes, CO2 extracts, alcohol tinctures, oil infusions. I'm probably missing some. Patty --- On Wed, 9/3/08, Lori VanScoter <lvanscoter wrote: So essences = essential oils, absolutes, and extracts? Hi Lori What Gary is referring to is any aromatic extract of a plant. Some people lump them all together and call then essential oils, but that's not really accurate, because many of them are not extracted using distillation. So in natural perfumery, many of us refer to them as " essences " to cover the whole lot of them. Patty Quote
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