Dedicated botanists, as for backdrop to a fragrance-making and mixing enthusiast “hobbyist” sort of pseudo-professional profile of perfume-maker - not quite a lab chemist, ever, foreseeably, yet not quite an elementary-level “essential oils only” type of fragrance mixer, by moonlight, as it were… would not quite classify the Iris as a notably fragrant flower. No, by it’s formative traits, it is a perennial tuberous root-replicating crop; a rhizome, that is. The flowers? Classic, via our Art History lessons, as Jean Claude Van Damme, though… man, he could kick some ass.
I’m still on, like, my last blog post’s lingering persona and effects, and attitude.
Sorry about that. It’s Claude Monet, who did the famous landscapes of the folk-ish peasant pastorale, he, himself, a master of observation, and an indulgent one, when it came to large strokes, and goop, with his impasto technique, with the tube of acrylic, forming some of the characteristic primary favorites of art lovers, of the Early Modern Period; here, Impressionism, as it’s known, along with Van Gogh, who did similar work, stylistically.
Botany enthusiasts ex art lovers-slash-historians would instantly draw a connection, between Claude Monet and his Irises.
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But the irises? They’re not quite well-reknowned, by budding botany enthusiasts, and gardeners alike, yet the 3-year aged rhizomes, of the adult plant (apparently, that’s the premise, here), will produce the desirable fragrance components irones and ionones. These aroma chemicals have particularly to do with the iris, but what does a scent-less flower’s tuberous rhizome, aged three years, have to do with something that smells good? Where does it fit, in a fragrance composition?
On one hand, I couldn’t quite speak as an expert. I got in on this ionone thing as a tropical fragrance-seeking enthusiast, with an aspiration to incorporate the tuberose flower, Polianthes tuberosa, colloquially now known as Agave amica. I went with Eden Botanicals, for my tuberose absolute. Sure, it’s costly, but it’s a little more lean on the budget, compared to Perfumer’s Apprentice. It was my first time, shopping Eden Botanicals. The products don’t disappoint.
The alpha ionones, though having procured some iris concrete (butter) from Perfumer’s World, on a prior shopping mission, which ends up “looking like” ground up rhizome, well enough, yet a smell out of it? and I feel that, perhaps, this stuff is meant for reference and artifact material resource, for a fragrance exhibit collection, and for studies, etc. The topic constituent aroma chemical components, I inferred, after having experienced iris concrete butter, as a generally scent-free material, was that the irones and ionones, as the fragrance suppliers’ listings would imply - are an effect, and adjuvant, of a fragrance composition, diffusion-wise, as it were.
Jump in to “environmental” fragrancing, with several droppers-full of alpha ionone (natural), from Perfumer’s Apprentice. Even, like, you’re not “supposed to,” sorts of diffusion, the type that would completely suck for the fragrancier, particularly if the rest of the fragrance sucks. But out a bit of standard old isopropyl alcohol and some hydrogen peroxide: 75%/25%, and the composition seems to shrink back down to standard human proportions. Because, how could someone really appreciate smelling up an entire small locale? Who knows what isopropanol would do, absent isopropyl myristate, as a solvent (which I haven’t tried), and this “type” of alcohol introduction to the fragrance being perhaps simply experimental and ad hoc, within reach. Perhaps subliminally squat pre-limbic intelligence serendipity? I’m not even sure I can smell the truth of this tropical fragrance thing, any more, but if you want diffusion I, a fragrance, those are my tips, and my observations, be they what they could be, based on what I’ve disclosed, here. Enjoy.
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