What Are Floral Waters

Most of us have heard of Rose Water, that's the most well know floral water.

In fact any part of a plant that is aromatic, meaning has a nice smell, can be made into a floral water.

The Process is Distillation.  You take the petals, leaves, or sprigs (stems)...whatever has the smell, and boil water through the flowers, the steaam captures the scent, up through the stainless steel or copper tubing, down through a cold bath, and out comes the condensed aroma...Floral water.  This is steam distillation.  What comes out is called the hydrosol...the floral water

We just learned that a floral water is called a hydrosol, and it comes from flower petals.

When you distill the fragrant leaves of a plant like mint, or the aromatic stems of lemongrass you can call them Herbal Hydrosols.  Same steam distillation, but of leaves and stems instead if petals and flowers.  I make 4 of those.  Rosemary, Lemongrass, Lemon Balm and Mint.