Wailuku ☽•☾ natural perfume.
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My recollection of a place. December 2015. I didn't have a car so I walked, and I took a lot of walks. Along sidewalks dotted with plumeria trees taller than streetlights. Butter, seashell pink, and sherbet colored blossoms constantly falling, along with the occasional startling coconut. Dawn walks watching the diorama of looming blue mountains appearing from behind misty clouds, turning to green in the sun. Block parties with fresh pineapple juice and clouds of Maui Wowie brought in by the literal truckload. Turn right off the main strip and you’re in a tropical jungle where natural tiers sprawling with ligneous vines lead upwards to a waterfall and swimming hole. Trips to the deli where the scents of local ocean catch and the best beef I’ve ever had were overpoweringly rich. I wanted to capture the raw sweet feeling I had there, but with in-house Wild Veil botanicals.
The main notes are mimosa, pineapple, vetiver, and pu-erh.
Photos: banana flower with tiny growing banana fruits; solid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass jars; liquid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass roller ball bottles; liquid perfume in 5ml amber glass apothecary bottle with orifice reducer.
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Wild Veil natural perfumes are composed by me, Abby, using homemade, wildcrafted and organic aromatics in Vermont. These include my handmade enfleurage, tinctures, enfleurage extraits, absolutes, resinoids and concretes, and floral waxes. I spend as much time growing plants and foraging as I do composing perfumes.
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The best way to experience a natural perfume is to apply it to well-moisturized skin, without rubbing in (absorption only shortens the wear time of fragrance) and without scrubbing off. Natural perfumes are dynamic and take a minimum of 2 hours to reach their final stage, or dry down. Enjoy the alchemical changes as they unfold from the initial intensity of top notes, to the warmth of the heart, to the depth of lower base notes.
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