This rare aromatic is a majmua attar, a traditionally distilled blend of flowers and botanicals from India.  This particular version includes saffron, adding a distinctive powdery note to this rare natural perfume.  Saffron sone of the most healing substances known, and is used as both a medicinal herb and a culinary spice.  Read about saffron’s healing properties here. It is an excellent choice for relieving trauma and negative emotional energy.  Its aroma restores the internal balance in the emotional body without losing the understanding of life lessons that came through the trauma. Ruhs and attars, are pure, steam distilled essential oils that are traditionally distilled in copper degs.

Attars

Attars are distilled into a sandalwood oil (or sometimes vetiver) receiver, and can take many days to complete the process.

Ruhs

Ruhs are simply distilled on their own.  They contain only the essential oil of the single species, or group of species, that are being distilled. Most of these aromatic formulas have been distilled in the same way, using time honored recipes, for hundreds of years or longer.  This traditional form of distillation has been in effect for literally thousands of years. The prices of these rare natural substances reflect the difficulty and time invested in producing them.  This kind of loving attention produces a substance that is sacred, and beyond any synthetic perfume made in a laboratory.  One must experience it to understand.

Aromatic Profile

Top Note:  Rich, spicy, with ethereal floral notes

Heart Note:  Complex powdery floral, with earthy, rooty base notes

Base Note:  Green, spicy, herbaceous, mossy notes

Classification:  Heart note

Tenacity:  Very high

In natural perfumery, saffron majmua attar can be used as a complete perfume in itself.  Its complex and wondrous aroma is rare and beautiful. The addition of saffron to the basic majmua distillation makes a deep, rich aroma, one which will not soon be forgotten.

Although it is a fine natural perfume on its own, it also makes a fine base for blending  quality floral perfumes, amber perfumes, oriental perfumes, fougeres, earthy and mossy blends and incenses. Just a drop added to medicinal essential oil blends can add a whole new dimension to the healing properties and experiential qualities of the blend.