this being the very same process known as
enfleurage in French.
She wanted the oil to sell in her shop,
Enfleurage, in New York City, which sells all kinds of lotions, candles and oils with different scents such as oud, sandalwood and jasmine.
This process is known as
enfleurage. For some flowers, like jasmine-which go on exuding their scent long after they have been picked-this method was very effective.
When Grenouille discovers human scent can't be bottled, he sets out to Provence, to the town of Grasse, which specializes in
enfleurage, extracting the essence of flowers.
Of the possibilities that I've heard suggested, my favorite is that it is named after the key feature of enfleurage, the oldest method of capturing and transferring a scent from source to product.
Cold enfleurage is a technique that is particularly suited to delicate flowers such as violets, mimosa, and jasmine.
Using the ancient technique of Enfleurage, the essence of these flowers is absorbed by a layer of vegetable fat, requiring reapplication of fresh flowers over many days.
Jasmin (Jasminum grandflorum) Yasmeen: Dubbed the "King of Flowers," the essential oil was prepared by the pharaohs in a process now termed Enfleurage that extracts the jasmin oil without the use of synthetic solvents.
Techniques that have been used until recently, such as
enfleurage, were developed by the ancient civilisations, (distillation would not appear till the 10th century BC).
Enfleurage - Mississauga ON - Essential oils, potpourri, oil burners, gift baskets, soap, bath bombs, shampoos, conditioners - Booth 1
Monoi de Tahiti is extracted by an
enfleurage process in which buds are soaked in local refined coconut oil and then filtered.
"Five thousand years ago they were already using the method of
enfleurage -- a means of extracting essential oils from flower petals by the use of fats -- that is still in use today", Ms Wells pointed out.