Candle Aroma of the Week #1: Amaretto
- wfleuraroma
- Mar 21, 2017
- 2 min read
Each week I will highlight a scent from my line of natural soy candles - and maybe some fun facts or history about each aroma. Check back every week to see which aroma is featured. All aromas are available for purchase online and in-store at The Shops at Damascus Electric.
The first aroma is Amaretto. Amaretto is a sweet, almond-flavoured, Italian liqueur associated with Saronno, Italy.
The W Fleur Aroma Amaretto soy candle is a robust, nutty, sweet, and tantalizing aroma with a delicate apricot, sweet almond and vanilla aroma. It is a wonderfully delicious scent to enjoy on warm summer night or sitting by the fireplace on a cool winters eve. Absolutely enjoyable anytime!
About Amaretto
Amaretto is Italy's best-selling liqueur and rightly so, we say. And it's best served with fairy lights around the glass...
Whether you’re warmed or repelled by the almond taste of Amaretto, you’ll be intrigued by the romantic history of Italy’s most famous – and bestselling – liqueur.
As far as love stories go, you can’t beat the Amaretto legend. Amaretto has a lineage dating back to one of the most romantic and creative periods in Italian history – the Renaissance.
In 1525, a Saronno church commissioned artist Bernardino Luini, one of Leonardo da Vinci's pupils, to paint their sanctuary with frescoes. As the church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Luini needed to depict the Madonna, but was in need of a model. He found his inspiration in a young widowed innkeeper, who became his model and lover. Out of gratitude and affection, the woman wished to give him a gift. Her simple means did not permit much, so she steeped apricot kernels in brandy and presented the resulting concoction to a touched Luini.
It’s not known if the relationship fizzled out – the recipe certainly didn’t. Towards the end of the 18th century, the secret formula became the property of the Reina family who continues to produce Disaronno ‘Originale’ – an infusion of apricot kernel oil, absolute alcohol, burnt sugar (hence the deep amber colour), and seventeen selected herbs and fruits.
Fun facts:
Contrary to popular belief it’s made from apricot kernels, not almonds.
In the U.S., Amaretto only become available in the 1960's.
The drink is as famous for its distinctive square bottle as it is for its taste – the bottle was on show at Italian artist Gianmaria Buccellati’s exhibition at the Louvre in 2000, as an object synonymous with the 20th century
Iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and actress Sadie Frost are fans.
This sexy liqueur was even featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film ‘The Godfather’.
Source: Disaronno, http://www.disaronno.com/
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