I adore
flowers! Maybe, my obsession with perfumes has started from there. I don’t even
remember how many times I hold a flower so close to my nose for hours or How
many times I walked through a specific alley so I can feel that transparent
breath of the flower…
Honeysuckle
is one of my favorite’s blooms. The English word implies the sweet, honey like
scent and taste of the flower. This is true! My grand mother used to eat these
flowers as a child. The Greek word is Agioklima which means Holly flower but
the origin of the word is from the word Aigioklima which means the shrub that
is eaten ny the Goats! The same meaning of the word can be found in French language
“chevrefeuille” which also means the leaves
that are eaten by the goats! We are talking about Goats gourmet here!
The best
time to enjoy Honeysuckle’s scent is the evening. This climbing vine has
scented a lot of our summer nights out and ours best memories!
The natural
essential oil or absolute is not easy to find and if you do is very expensive. That’s
why, Perfumers usually use lab made accords or fragrances. In that way they
recreate almost exactly it’s delicate scent.
Well known
perfumes that have Honeysuckle as a note:
D&G
SICILY
Le
Chevrefeuille Annick Goutal
Honeysuckle
& Jasmine Jo Malone
Haute
Claire by Aftelier
Please
comment with your favorites!!!
From these
above I have only Sicily but I really want to try Haute Claire by Aftelier
And A soap!
Because of my
love for Honeysuckle I decided to make a
Honeysuckle Soap! This is an ozonic kind of a Honeysuckle that I used. It has a
honey note too!
As my oils
I used: Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Palm Kernel oil, Shea butter and
Castor oil
To color my
soap I used White and Yellow clays to represent the flower of the plant.
I really enjoyed reading this post! That's so funny that in Greek and French it means "The shrub that is eaten by the goats". My grandma had honeysuckle in her backyard, and I used to eat it when we'd visit her. It was so yummy! I actually own a honeysuckle perfume. It's MAC creations-Naked Honey. It was limited edition, and I'm sad to say I blew through it because I loved it so much. I kept the bottle though :)
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήYour honeysuckle soap looks delightful! May I have a link to your shop? I'd love to try your soap when I run out of the one I'm using now <3
This Summer I am definitely trying out a honeysuckle flower. I have to know how it tastes!
ΔιαγραφήI didn't know that MAC carries perfumes too. It's so annoying when they dicontinue a fragrance. I hate it:(
Thank you so much for your interest in my soaps! I want to open an etsy shop in the future.
If you want send me an email with your adress here: irishandmadesoaps@gmail.com and I will send you one!
Honeysuckle is sooo very yummy! If I remember right, you're supposed to gently pull tr flower out and suck the honey out of the "tube". I'll have to google it, haha!
ΔιαγραφήI know, I absolutely hate when anything gets discontinued :( The people that sell discontinued things on eBay or amazon always want so much money for it, too! Bah!
I emailed you :)
yep, I have seen crazy prices for rare bpals. I try to buy a full bottle for anything I really love to avoid ebay or the scecond hand market later but sometimes I just can't...
ΔιαγραφήBeautiful post! I like honeysuckle but haven't experienced the real flowers enough to actually appreciate it. I had Yardley's soliflore of honeysuckle which I didn't love but I did like it.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήI second Brightest Star's request. I would love to visit your shop for some beautiful soaps :)
Su, Thank you so much! I wish I could find a scent that it's exactly the same as the real flower but I know it's impossible... I haven't tried Yardley's Honeysuckle. I will give it a try the next time I find their range somewhere.
ΔιαγραφήLike I said to Brightest Star I don't have a shop yet, I want to open an etsy shop thought... If you want send my your adress in:irishandmadesoaps@gmail.com and I will send you one!
I am writing you an email as we speak! Thanks :)
ΔιαγραφήEmailed back:)
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