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| Suat Eman |
A quick glance through my collection of essential and fragrance oils will reveal I have a bit of a thing for coconut. There's regular coconut fragrance oil, black coconut, coconut ice, coconut milk, and coconut cream pie. I love coconut! What's not to love? It tastes great, it smells delicious, and coconut oil has about a million uses from cooking to make-up removal.
So when I found a supplier offering coconut CO2 I impulse-bought a bottle immediately without really bothering to read the material information. Hey, it's coconut! It's already perfect! Why inform yourself further? And let me tell you, it is pretty perfect. It has an amazing coconut flesh smell - bright, sweet, tropical, nutty, and fresh. Honestly, I love all my coconut oils, but the difference between a coconut fragrance oil and this stuff is light years. It smells good enough to eat.
There is one, tiny, problem with coconut CO2. It's solid at room temperature. The texture is buttery/fatty and although it will become liquid with some gentle heat, it re-solidifies back to a butter once it cools. So obviously this is not a material for perfume oils. Disappointing, but that's what solid perfumes are for, right?
Having recently stocked up on some great fragrance oils from the US that will lend themselves perfectly to bright, exotic perfumes, I'm brainstorming some ideas for more solids. I've got a particularly lovely puakenikeni oil that should be heavenly with coconut CO2. I'd love to know what scents you guys think coconut should be paired with too - this is the kind of material you really want to experiment and go crazy with! I can see it working with brazil nuts or pistachio, cherry or chocolate, marshmallow...maybe even some deep spices like clove. What do you reckon? What's your perfect coconut combination?
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| winnond |
