Lol hadn't thought of it that way, but I was DIYing guerilla distillations on scavenged glassware of pine and rosemary from material that I gathered on the University of Washington campus before I was ever thinking about literal perfume making, so there is some truth to that.
oh yeah speaking of which, I had a bunch of leftover cannabis from last year (I grew some but I'm not a big enough consumer to go through it), so I made some cannabis flower resinoid absolute. That is not to be trifled with(!), and a product connected to the history of this town… New Lebanon was the source of the original snake oil, the first herbal pharmaceutical factory in the United States which was famous for its opium tincture and unbelievably potent cannabis extract. There is a book called "The Hasheesh Eater" by Fritz Ludlow, recollections of his experiences on heroic doses of Tilden's tonic, a concentrated extract of hashish that this town was famous for. 😂 Better yet, the heir to the family fortune Samuel "Honest Sam" Tilden became the governor of New York and ran for president in a contested election… He won the popular vote but not the electoral college. His cemetery is down the road from my house and on his tomb it reads "I Still Trust the People".
I wonder if he would still trust the people nowadays. 😅 That tonic sounds like a cannabis version of laudanum, which I had mixed up with labdanum for a while (I was wondering how it was possible for an illegal narcotic to be present in perfumes 🤣). Unfortunately, cannabis has never agreed with me. Even a tiny amount of flower material gives me a full-blown panic attack - and yet in my day I could eat MDMA all day and usually be the better for it. The few times I tried LSD were also panic-inducing but taught me a lot about myself, though I never got the bottom of why I could never do the supposedly softer pot.
Doesn’t suit everyone, cannabis…. Like alcohol doesn’t suit a lot of people I know but they still have it… in case of cannabis, you can’t still have it, but alcohol many can, even if it doesn’t suit… I stopped cannabis, after many years of use, as it doesn’t suit me anymore. Now I like a drink or two, at a point I didn’t because it didn’t suit.
I am reading the Hasheesh Eater now - his first reaction was a panic attack type response to a strong hallucinogenic dose. It's actually really interesting reading about somebody from this long ago describing the experience and their efforts to navigate it. Something I and quite a few of my acquaintances have been through - people often overdo it on the edibles due to their slow and sneaky onset. nothing happening after an hour so you eat another brownie and then whammo next thing you know you are trying to remember how to breathe 😂
My favorite of the author's hallucinations: a space filled with old "crones" who, on close inspection, were actually striking facsimiles of old women made of meticulously knitted yarn; the old crones were busy knitting more old crones 😂
Fascinating!
I wonder does a cannabis extract exist that’s free of THC and CBD? I want to get my hands on it but I don’t want to exclusively eat lentils and bread for a decade.
You can order the steam distilled essential oil from Eden Botanicals (was on sale for a long while) and presumably some other suppliers. No THC but the aroma is pretty abstracted from the really favorable characteristics of the flowers… It tends to be more of a green crushed stem beta caryophyllene note. To me it is too far off the mark.
Do you think tincture in ethanol then aging would make cannabis useable? My ones are still in soak and has this ‘spicy fried peas’ smell…. It hits you in the nose… I hope it ages well….
There is a proper essential oil (hydrodistilled) of Cannabis, sold as 'Hemp essential oil' and it is free from both THC and CBD (and any cannabinoids), while presenting a full, bold and iconic aromatic character of that pungent zesty herb. As based in EU, I know that Hermitage sells artisan-grade produced in UK Hemp essence (smells like a real thing 😉 ) that costs just a tad more than 40€ for 5 ml (and the price slides down (per volume) if you buy more - meaning it is 5 times cheaper than the cheapest plantation Oud.
ejayb / olefaktory made a blend "cannagris" which was ambergris extracted into really fine dank mossy cannabis oil he distilled. very harmonious combination. Also there are some strains that have a distinct ambergris profile like GMO cookies I think. I made some tinctures last year from some flower of that strain grown locally and it really reminded me of ambergris
Stunning.
