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  1. Adweeya Mufriha

    Effects of essential oils on the skin

    It is certainly not a stupid question at all ! Well, Oud has been a medicinal substance for two millenia plus, up to today (f.ex: I have excellent japanese medicine to be taken internally where it is a core component.) I wouldn't just "go for it" randomly, but wouldn't worry about occasional...
  2. Adweeya Mufriha

    So what is your day job?

    haha is everyone's day job consuming magic mushrooms ? (just joking: I was surprised to find this discussion on a thread with this title 🤣 ) Where I live, in the Franco-Swiss Jura mountain range (where the name jurassic comes from), the psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap ?) grows abundantly...
  3. Adweeya Mufriha

    Tools for incense making

    hmmm sandalwood being extremely hard, it might.. grind most coffee grinders :D. if you think you have a very powerful and robust one and don't care about its fate, in any case, yes : good Idea to prep the raw material very small and thin you'd be better off with a heavy duty melanger designed...
  4. Adweeya Mufriha

    Tools for incense making

    Vitamix is great! Powerful genuine 2cv power. I also use a small sized coffee grinder, that my parents bought in the 1960's that works amazingly well and reduces granit to dust (hyperbole but this things does a wonderful job) ... programmed obsolescence had not been invented, then :Alien...
  5. Adweeya Mufriha

    Ambergris, you just never know.

    I saw the article earlier, and was asking myself the same question (about the "curing" by exposition to elements) many people here still think that whales are killed for ambergris, so the article might reinforce this association :confused:
  6. Adweeya Mufriha

    Incense Confiscation At Customs

    I am sorry this happened to you. I do have the impressions things are globally getting worse on the postal front Some of my recent experiences : After years and years of non events and (relative) customs leniency, I have the impression covid times contributed to tighten the screw in many...
  7. Adweeya Mufriha

    The painful side of this thing

    I do emphatize, brother. While I am thorough and try to write everything systematically, there is always a mishap waiting to happen somewhere. If it is one of the blends you prepared, I hope that your memory will allow you to reconstruct it (from within aka re-accessing some memories of...
  8. Adweeya Mufriha

    Durian Extraction

    :Roflmao: the so popular notes of the elusive Aquilariadurio crassnazibethinus :Alien:
  9. Adweeya Mufriha

    Durian Extraction

    I am happy some people experiment with that openly, and as I love the fruit, I'd definitely be curious about Durian Extraction (and a study quantity of a good oud codistillation) It seems that co-distilling durian skin with plantation incoculated agarwood is a common adulteration technique in...
  10. Adweeya Mufriha

    Fragrance Industry Antitrust Crackdown - EU

    Hi JK. I hope you are well. :) Glad it already at that effect ! A bit more info on the Swiss investigation process here, in case you are interested: https://www.ouddict.com/threads/firmenich-givaudan-iff-symrise-under-legal-investigation.5846/#post-95669
  11. Adweeya Mufriha

    Firmenich, Givaudan, IFF & Symrise under legal investigation

    I 100% agree with you. By writing "I hope it is good news" [english is a foreign language for me also], I only meant that I am not sure how thorough the legal investigation will be, and whether it will bear fruits, and if so, of what kind: just symbolic... or substantial, which would mean...
  12. Adweeya Mufriha

    Firmenich, Givaudan, IFF & Symrise under legal investigation

    I don't buy any of what is produced with their stuff, and I try to fight / resist against the fruits of the very powerful industrial perfume lobbying over EU and associate countries. I don't know what will come out of this procedure, but I hope it is good news that practices in the sector start...
  13. Adweeya Mufriha

    Oud Oil Few Samples From Al Shareef Oudh

    Yes, but Aroma Sublime specializes in "cleaner ouds" and has made a trademark of that, so the comparison doesn't fully work: they tend to steer away from strong barny profiles or from profiles / notes that necessitate an extra acquired taste (that could put off who haven't developed it). Their...
  14. Adweeya Mufriha

    Effects of essential oils on the skin

    .. apologies : there was a bug on my pc and a refresh. All looked normal buht then I noticed a double post after I was done editing the one above :( .. I could not find how to erase this duplicate post.
  15. Adweeya Mufriha

    Effects of essential oils on the skin

    @The Scent Guru I was glad to read that it was "just" allergy, for your Mother ! This was a recurring problems with the pigments used in traditional European paintings for centuries and centuries (many having slow-building toxic, including heavy metals, etc). Up to the XXth century full time...
  16. Adweeya Mufriha

    Active La Maison Khenata - Malay Cola

    I loved malay cola, I bought two bottles from brother Farid at the time. Still missing him and his oils a lot. I hope he is doing well. this was just a sharing the love / reminiscence post. I have nothing to sell, but wish you the best of luck in sourcing it !
  17. Adweeya Mufriha

    Effects of essential oils on the skin

    Here are the generic safe dilutions recommendations made by Tisserand & co (who made essential oils safety one of their core specialty within aromatherapy). While I do not particularly follow them (by far :Roflmao: ), I do think they make good sense if you are new to the field. Try things in...
  18. Adweeya Mufriha

    Regulatory Issues and IFRA

    @mattmeleg, @Royhalwood Thanks for you input, friends ! Study material wont't work for what I am developping beyond my RL business, but I imagine that it could work legally if you develop a site / shop / project with that focus. I have been working with a law expert for a while (thanks God...
  19. Adweeya Mufriha

    essential oils vs ouds

    100 % that :)
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