Is it supposed to smell like tube-roses? Heavy, sweet, intoxicating?
Its a sweet heavy scent simular to jasmin.
This is how my aromatherapy book describes it…
Hope that helps
Tisha
It’s also super expensive. So if you find it cheaply somewhere, it’s usually been cut with a carrier. But it can be so overwhelmingly sweet otherwise and you may be turned off it. I made up a great mix a while ago with ylang-ylang, jasmine (another super expensive) and neroli (not cheap either!) (is there a theme here to my fragrance favs?) mixed into a carrier oil and find it gives me such a balanced sense of well-being with just four drops a night massaged into my neck. I sleep like babe, in these troubled times. I have also read it can give you sexy dreams!
Ooh, another great fav is a citrusy one called May Chang which I keep on hand to sniff my blues away!
An inexpensive source of the ylang-ylang scent is “kananga water.”