We continue our overview of the raw materials used in perfumery with cardamom. Origin, processing, benefits and use in perfumery, you will know everything about cardamom.
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| Cardamom: The Plant And Its Perfumes |
A little history about Cardamom
Latin name of cardamom: Eletarria cardamomum
Family Zingiberaceae
Legend has it that Cleopatra, very much in love with Mark
Antony, burned cardamom scents before their romantic rendezvous.
It is a robust, perennial, herbaceous plant, 2 to 5 meters
high, which grows at medium altitude in tropical rainforests.
It is a plant with thick rhizomes that give white flowers
veined with red, cardamom is a dry capsule type fruit.
Each capsule contains 10 to 20 black and fragrant angular
seeds. The fruits are hand-picked in India during the period from September to
December.
Ginger and turmeric are members of the same plant family as
cardamom.
This spice, which is the queen of spices next to the king
pepper, often has its name distorted, it is cardamom and not cardamom n e.
Cardamom is the typical spice of Indian cuisine, it is used
in the composition of a curry, Massala and chai tea.
It should be noted that it is one of the most expensive
spices after saffron and vanilla.
Reduced to powder, it loses its fragrance very quickly.
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Cardamom Treatment
In order to obtain cardamom essential oil, the cardamom
seeds are flattened and then steam distilled for 5 hours before a purification
and agitation phase. This is followed by an evaluation before export. This is a
fairly expensive spice, as its production requires a very substantial amount of
labor.
Origin of cardamom
There are different varieties of cardamom, white, green,
beige or brown. The color will vary depending on the drying technique.
It is mainly native to India and Sri Lanka but it is also
grown in Guatemala, which is the world's leading exporter of these precious
green capsules, as well as in Tanzania, Vietnam and Cambodia. It is green, then
turns yellow and begins to detach, which means it is time to harvest it.
There is another quality: black or brown cardamom. It is a
cousin of green cardamom, but larger, rougher, with a more powerful, smokier
scent and more used in savory preparations.
Scent of cardamom
It goes well with all olfactory families and especially
colognes. It is used in both women's and men's perfumes, they go particularly
well with the woody family, the chypre family, the oriental family.
Guatemalan cardamom is more appreciated in perfumery than
that of India, because it is purer and more aromatic, and therefore more
appreciated by perfumers.
Olfactory description of cardamom
This is a fragrance that I particularly like, which is
classified in the fresh spices, slightly camphorated, very aromatic with a
eucalyptus and rosemary effect, with a hint of pepper and lemon. It is
therefore both spicy and aromatic.
It goes well with the chocolate, coffee and tea note and with all other spices. It also goes very well with all other citrus fruits because of its rising hesperidic facet, extremely invigorating.
Other fresh spices:
- Coriander seed
- Pink pepper
- Timut pepper
- Ginger
- Juniper berries
Virtues and benefits of cardamom
- The Egyptians chew it to whiten their teeth and freshen their breath.
- It has digestive and stimulating properties. It is also supposed to help with coughs and sore throats.
- Cardamom calms nausea and kidney pain.
- Cardamom also flavors some cigarettes and is also widely used in perfumery.
- It is widely used in Ayurvedic medicine.
- It also flavors Lebanese coffee and oriental desserts.
- In Scandinavia, it flavors cakes, mulled wines, pies, and pastries as well as gingerbread.
- The leaf can also be used to flavor dishes of Indian origin.
Cardamom in the Bahisht Aroma Collections
In reference to the chai beverage, Vangelis' Vanilla
Collection by Bahisht Aroma includes a number of spices, including cardamom,
clove, pepper, and cinnamon. A powerful scent that combines the softness of
vanilla with the power of spices and woods (patchouli, vetiver, cedar, and
sandalwood). It's a hot vanilla flavour.
Memory of many trips to India, it is a meeting with Vangelis
in a palace of Rajasthan in India mysterious and intriguing, his face is
dressed in a colorful turban, he is tasting a chai tea in which the spices
crackle.
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Perfumes containing cardamom
It is a spicy note that the great perfumer Jean-Claude
Ellena particularly appreciates. A note that was initially more masculine than
feminine, we now see it more and more in women's perfumes, but especially more
and more in so-called confidential niche perfumery (see Confidential perfumery
or niche perfumes ).
- Bulgari Green Tea Scented Water
- Cartier Statement
- Penhaligon's Junniper Sling
- Killian's Intoxicates
- Joe Malone's Mimosa and Cardamom
- Kenzo Jungle for men and women by Kenzo
- Dzongkha of the Artisan Perfumer
- Mugler Alien
- 1969 Perfume of Perfume Stories
- Journey of Hermes
- Vangelis by Bahisht Aroma Paris
Bahisht Aroma Perfumes
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and Vanilla Collections. You can try them with the Discovery Boxes (5 Eau de
Parfum x 2 ml) and rediscover these raw materials as you have never smelled
them before.
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