yeah I'd like a big jug of it just to get me through the snowstorm here... could use the calm… It's so cold that I'm worried the waterline from the spring is going to freeze up and I will be out of water for a while. Hoping we don't lose power, it's not that unusual to get an outage with a big storm up here.
Well let me research this! Cause I have olibanum absolute 50%
Yep, I found a CO2 extraction of Boswellia serrata. Now, it’s not cheap, nor is it very expensive, and it’s from a vendor I sometimes go to when she has something intresting available. I’ll write her an ask her what the odor profile is because the description provided isn’t very thorough.
Right? It’s supposed to get to 16” of snow here in Brooklyn too! I just woke up about an hour ago and decided to forgo work and play online, so your post was perfect for that!
I’ll ask her, but I don’t think she has technical documentation, just saftey documentation.
I should correct myself, Sigma-Aldrich does sell it, as a research chemical and in mgs units. lol, I don't think a couple of mgs is going to modify or add to a natural fragrance.
.4% is way too low.
is that the very top of the line or is this the lower grade stick? I smelled someone burning one of their very highest end kyara sticks in 2002 or so - it was a product demonstration session from Baieido in one of the retailer's shops in PDX. It's the only other stick I've smelled that was as intensely saturated with the green kyara aroma as translucent path. I'm not a real stick connoisseur but I have never smelled anything like those two and no other stick that I have sampled from baieido was like that one demoed in the shop - clean green kyara sharp and saturated, no filler or tabu or camphor or competing notes. I thought that was the kokoh... this is a memory from early on in my path but it was a very striking memory.
yeah who knows how it would smell to me today, the one time I experienced it was when I was first learning about some of the different varieties. I smelled another one of their straight kyara sticks, I think a price level below the kokoh and it also had the green kinam note, but it was not the dominant scent and it was in a more general woody context. Your description reminds me of that a little bit. Again these are memories from 2002/3 so who knows. that one stick was so remarkable though - a peak experience for me when compared against my other recollections, whatever the reason.
This might be relevant to the conversation? https://apothecarysgarden.com/blogs/blog/frankincense-as-medicine-truth-myth-and-misinformation
