Lilac and Bushman Candle Enfleurage.

The Wild Veil Lilac & Bushman Candle Enfleurage is a vegan, organic, whole plant perfume made using the method of cold enfleurage of fresh lilac flowers from my family's 35 year old heirloom French lilacs. I first fixed the pommade with my absolute/resinoid of Sarcocaulon mossamedense (bushman candle, wild, collected by the Himba in parts of Namibia and Angola). I tinctured the raw material, a waxy bark that has desiccated in the desert heat, for 6 months, then used natural evaporation to slowly reduce the solution to an absolute. The absolute is sticky, hard, at 100% concentration and smells like brown sugar and brown butter, musk, and frankincense; it has a crackling fiery energy like wood smoke, without the acridity of smoke. I gently worked it into avocado butter to fix the pommade for enfleurage. I spread this amber, caramel, and incense scented fat very thin (1/8 inch) and I laid fresh flowers on it, recharging daily until saturated. I only use the individual blossoms (not wh