keris oil

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Originally Posted by nechesh

Well, i have been informed that while kananga and ylang-ylang come from the same family of plant that they are indeed different. A quick whiff from my ylang-ylang bottle comfirms this. So i am back to my starting point. If anyone knows where i can obtain Kenanga oil i would greatly appreciate it, thanks.

I just wandered into this forum from Alan Maisey's page with whom I've done business for at least the last 15 years. I'm not quite as avid of a collector as I once was, but I am still greatly fascinated by ethnographic weaponry.

This is the only source of kenanga oil I've been able to find:
http://libertynatural.com/index.html They sell Cananga Odorata forma Macrophylla which, as far as I can discover, is the ylang-ylang subspecies known as kenanga oil. I did quite a bit of research on this topic while trying to copy Alan's keris oil recipe which primarily uses sandalwood and kenanga oil. I've never been completely satisfied with my results, however. I've purchased the kenanga oil from Liberty Natural and it is still very sweet. I"m not sure that I would be able to tell the difference between it and ylang-ylang (which I guess is not too surprising considering their extremely close kinship). I use very little of it and end up using mostly sandalwood oil. Because the kenanga oil is considered an inferior oil to the ylang-ylang, it is fortunately, quite inexpensive.

Hope that helps!