I am pleased to announce the first of a series of Floracopeia natural perfumes compounded from highest quality essential oils and traditional attars. "Savitri" rose perfume was inspired during my journey through Rajasthan, where its ingredients are cultivated, harvested, and distilled. This rose perfume is a very simple blend, but it has a fascinating story and an intriguing, intoxicating fragrance.
According to the perfumers of Kannauj, India's ancient perfumery center, the combination of rose oil and vetiver oil is one of the finest of all fragrance blends. "Savitri" rose perfume is blended using two unique oils: the rosa bourbonica, and ruh khus. Rosa bourbonica, also known as the "Edward rose," is organically cultivated outside the holy city of Pushkar, beneath the mountaintop temple of the goddess Savitri. The flowers are freshly distilled in the fields in traditional alchemical vessels over low heat, giving the oil an extraordinarily high content of Damascenone molecules, which give roses their fragrance. Ruh khus is a thick hydro-distilled extract of dried wild vetiver roots from the desert; its complex earthy notes give body to the rose perfume and act as its fixative.
Listen to a live recording of David Crow telling the tale of Savitri
Read more about the creation of Savitri Rose Perfume.
Bottle size: 1 Dram
