Knowledge Hub
Black Pepper: Product Highlight
How the Piper nigrum vine grows, why pepper once paid rents and dowries, how unripe fruits become peppercorns and then oil, and how the dry, warm, spicy note is used in blends.
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Camphor: Product Highlight
The camphor tree, its long history in trade and timber, how the wood is distilled and rectified into white, yellow, brown and blue grades, and two scent recipes.
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Roman Chamomile: Product Highlight
The low-growing plant behind Roman Chamomile oil, its history from Egypt to medieval strewing herbs, how the flowers are distilled, and three recipes for makers.
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Eucalyptus: Product Highlight
Eucalyptus globulus, the blue gum, can reach 300 feet. Here is the tree, how its leaves become oil, and three recipes that use the fresh scent.
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Distilling White Sage Oil
Robert Seidel steam distills a small batch of dried White Sage in a 100 gallon stainless still: weighing, packing, condensing, separating and aging.
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Distilling Douglas Fir from Wind-Fallen Park Branches
We harvested wind damaged Douglas Fir branches from local city parks, chipped them and steam distilled them. Yield, lessons and what we would change.
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