Obtained for solvent extraction (absolute) or enfleurage from the flowers of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. (loto sacro, loto Indian, loto asiatic), plant water perennial of the Nelumbonacee widespread in South Asia and oriental (India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Southeast Asiatico), where grows in stagni, laghi and channels of water sweet with fondo limaccious. The loto is the plant sacra for eccellenza of induismo, buddhismo and jainismo — simbolo of purezza spiritual which emerge immacolata from the fango. L'essential oil or absolute of loto is among the more rari and prezious of the world — the production is estremaly limitata poiché the flowers devono be raccolti manually to the alba. The phytochemical profile is complesso and include 1,4-dimetossibenzen, alcohol benzilic, alcohol feniletic and composti indolic which provide the fragrance floral-exotic intense and paradossal — sweet, polverosaly acquatic and slightly animalic. In aromatherapy it is used as sedative, aphrodisiac spiritual and tonic emotional in the practices meditative oriental. Heart note floral, water, sweet and sacra.

India, China, Tailandia, Egypt

Flowers

Extraction with solvent (absolute) or enfleurage

• Perfumery: heart note eterea and only in the fragrances floreal and acquatic.
• Meditativo: facilitates the meditation and the concentration spiritual.
• Emozionale: calming, relieves anxiety states and promotes the serenity mental.
• Spirituale: used in ritual of purification and raccoglimento in molte traditions.

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