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Bruise the flowers in the jar with a wooden spoon and THEN add grapeseed oil. Put the jar in a sunny window, make sure all of the flowers are below the surface of the oil and cover with a paper towel, cheese cloth and a rubber band. I leave these flowers in the sun for 3 weeks. This is how I make infusions. And yes, everyone, this is a an infusion, not an essential oil.
I'm sure this is a very nice scented oil, but it's not an essential oil. Essential oils aren't made with infusion but typically through some kind of destillation process. Essential oils don't contain grapeseed oil, just the substances from the flowers/plants.
You are making an Infused oil NOT an essential oil. I enjoyed the video but as an Clinical Aromatherapist it would be nice to change the name of the video as to not confuse viewers.
I'm Drying the flowers in cardboard to remove moisture, then I'll try this procedure in the middle of a cold Canadian winter. Thank You Keila, you are lovely.
I followed everything to the T perfectly, mine turned out smelling like old shoes and stunk up my home today. Lolol it was worth a shot, just wasn't meant to be for me, good luck everyone with your experiment ♡ I used the correct oil too. It was worth a short tho :)
Lol me too!!! I was expecting a beautiful scent but it was horrible. Cost me a whole bottle of grapeseed oils :( I'm positive the heat is important to not get too hot. I'm going to try the covered jar in a sunny window method this year.
Not actually essential oil. This is infused which is just scented oil. But I do not care, as long as it smells like real lilacs. But I've never found anything that smells like fresh lilacs. The essential does exist, but is very hard to find and when you do its way over $100.00 for 0.5 tiny jar.
I tried this and it didn't turn out. I did everything exactly like mentioned but my lilac infused oil smelled like cooked vegetables. Did i do something wrong?
sniknik1 Same experience! I tried this recipe and followed it to the "T" and I ended up wasting my money on grape oil ($14.00 for 2 8oz bottles) and it smells like plants cooking and no scent at all in the oil. Wasted 6 hrs besides. These flowers were extremely fragrant!! Sorry, crappy recipe here people.
sniknik1 I had the same issue! I spent my entire Saturday picking, stripping flowers and cooking at 170 in my oven and it smells like poo...they were such fragrant flowers too...makes me very angry I wasted my time, oil & money with this is a crap video.
yes i think it is too long to cook them, im going to try again for lesser time. there was a point where they smelled really really good but then cooked for too long i guess.
Olá Keila! Amei os seus vídeos - obrigada por compartilhar! Eu infelizmente não cultivo flores por morar em apartamento, mas me interessei em fazer o óleo a partir de cravo e canela. Você diria que o tempo de cocção é o mesmo tempo usado para fazer óleo de flores? Obrigada!
The lilac oil smells like fried green tomatoes :( I followed all your directions except that I used olive oil instead and had the oven set at 190 for 6 hrs. Why is it not smelling like lilacs??? Is it the oil? I feel as if I have wasted so much oil and lilacs now......
This was the worst DIY-experience I ever had and I really wonder if the poster has any sense of smell. I wasted the grapeseed-oil like all the others and the finished "product" smelled like grilled Zuchini/tomato. I have not the slightest idea why someone would burden their karma with keeping something like this posted. After wasting the grapeseed-oil (and much to much of it) I used a cheaper cornbased-oil for the infusion. I guess any less fragrant kitchenoil should do. I put the oil in a pot, put stones on it to keep the blossoms under the surface of the oil and let it stand in about 20°C for 7/8 weeks with just the regular lid of the pot on. I strained the oil first with a sieve and then with a double-coffeefilter. There is still a little cloudy residue but I´ll let it set in the closed bottle now for a while and then just use the clear part. The Oil smells very good and fragrant. May you would like to try it out this way for once, Keila?
Hi,you are making infuse oil not essential oil,Essential oil must be extract from the flowers without anything added by distillation process. So Don't confused the Viewers. Pls change your video thumnail
Dear woman, this is NOT an essential oil....you're infusing but not extracting the lilac oil, please do not mis inform people..there is enough misinformation out there.
