Lilac and Tabacum Leaf Enfleurage.

The Wild Veil Lilac & Tobacco Leaf Enfleurage is a vegan, organic, whole plant perfume made using the traditional 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 of organic cured tobacco leaves. I tinctured the raw material, whole burley leaves, for 9 months, then used natural evaporation to slowly reduce the solution to an absolute. The absolute is syrupy at 95% concentration and smells like warm rolled leaf and foliage. I gently worked it into avocado butter to fix the pommade for enfleurage. I spread this cozy autumnal scented fat very thin (1/6 inch) and I laid fresh flowers on it, recharging daily until saturated. I only use the individual blossoms (not whole inflorescence or "bunches"). This maximizes surface area and uses as little of the whole plant as possible, while producing an aromatically superior product by isolating and capturing the singular scent of the lilac blossom, w