Late summer only.

The Harvest

Goldenrod flowers for a few weeks in August and September, and that is the entire production window. We cut it then and distil it here.

Aug-Sep The Only Window

Limited Small Runs Each Year

Our Still Cut and Charged Here

3 yr Both Dates Printed

A Specialty Oil, Honestly Small

Goldenrod is not a commodity and we are not going to pretend we can supply it like one.

The plant flowers late and briefly across North American meadows, yields are modest, and the harvest cannot be extended by wanting it to be. What comes out of a season is what there is.

That makes it a genuinely interesting oil and an awkward product line. We would rather sell a limited run and say so than pad the volume with something that flowers more obligingly.

Cut goldenrod flowering tops loaded into a still

Straight From the Cut

Nothing arrives here as oil. We take cut flowering tops and do the rest ourselves, which for a seasonal specialty is the only practical way to know what is in the bottle.

The material is packed and steamed until spent. What separates smells honeyed and grassy with a soft floral sweetness over a faintly hay-like base, which is unlike anything else on our shelves.

We run each charge out fully rather than to a schedule, since there is no second harvest to fall back on.

Distillation and bottling dates with a lot number, so you know which season you have. Amber throughout the range, small bottles included. Pure Solidago canadensis, undiluted, with no filler to make a short run go further.

Flowering Tops, In the Meadow

Solidago canadensis is the tall golden wildflower that lights up meadows in the last weeks of summer, and it is the flowering tops we want rather than the whole plant.

Cutting happens while the plumes are fully open but before they begin to set seed. Leave it a fortnight and the aromatic character has already thinned out.

Because the window is short, the whole year's production is decided over a few weeks of fieldwork.

Tall goldenrod in full yellow flower across a late summer meadow

Analysed Despite the Small Scale

Every limited run is sent to an independent laboratory, which is unusual for an oil made in these quantities.

Constituent profile

The full picture for the batch, since goldenrod is uncommon enough that published reference data is thin.

Species confirmation

Solidago is a large genus and the species matters. This checks the batch is canadensis.

Purity

Confirms a single-species distillate at full strength with nothing added to extend a small run.

Ask for the profile on your lot and we will send it, or contact us via the contact page.

📄 Certificate of Analysis

Two Things Worth Knowing

We make no health claims for goldenrod. It is an unusual and interesting aromatic, and that is the whole pitch.

Goldenrod belongs to the Asteraceae family, so if you react to ragweed, daisies or chamomile, approach it carefully. Blend it into a carrier and try a small area before anything larger. It is worth adding that goldenrod is widely blamed for hay fever caused by ragweed flowering at the same time; the pollen that troubles people is not this plant's.

When a season is poor, we sell out until the next one. There is no way to buy around a six-week harvest and we will not pretend otherwise.

One Season In a Bottle

Flowering tops cut in a narrow late-summer window, distilled in our own still in limited runs, analysed independently and dated by season.

Buy it while the run lasts.

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