[JimSEA]

I've got to admit that for 70+ Christmas Days, I didn't really have any idea what the Wise Men brought as gifts. Now the fragrance will be more available than as the smell of old church incense.

[marktwain]

They determined how to synthesize the molecules, so the price of frankincense should drop over then next few years.

[Rufii]

When I was in college, a professor of religion explained that frankincense and myrrh were used to cover up the smell of animal sacrifices that were included in the rites of various religions—including Judaism—in the Middle East.

[BenLurkin]

Fractured language

[bkopto]

the researchers used three kilos of essential oil of frankincense from Somalia, from which they isolated a purified sample of approximately 1 mg of two odorant constituents

Well, there goes another corner of the Somali economy once the key compounds are mass produced. More Somali pirates on tap, I guess.

[Spirochete]

I stumbled across his scalpel blade frisbee video the other day. He’s a German mad scientist; even has the evil chuckle for effect.

[353FMG]

Frankincense and incense are readily available from sidewalk vendors in Yemen. Yemenis use it as chewing gum. The ancient Kingdom of Sheba was in Yemen near the Saudi border.

[RegulatorCountry]

Gold, frankinscence and myrrh. How were you able to miss that, it’s not exactly hidden, in Christmas songs, in the Bible.

[sargon]

Real frankincense is a wonderful fragrance...

The Revolution is ON!

Vote Trump!

[MD Expat in PA]

When I was a kid and my family went to Mass, when the priest would walk down the main aisle coming up to the alter with the incense and during other parts of the Mass when incense was used, which I presume was frankincense and or with myrrh, I would start coughing and wheezing, my throat felt like it was closing up, my eyes would start watering and then the sneezing would start. My mother thought I was being overly dramatic and when I was in my late teens’ her thinking it was my excuse not to want to go, but I think I am allergic to it.

I have a similar reaction to any fragrance or hair care products or candles with balsam oil. There was a perfume that my mother used to wear, I think it was Emeraude and I’d have the same reaction.

I love the fragrance but not what it does to me.

[wardaddy]

I confess

For a three legger I know perfum ....I’m a member of basenotes

I love chypre style scents much more than cloying fruit crap

Chypre and real oak moss is musty like a woman’s revved up wet scent

I love it....my on switch smells it

For the record.....antique women’s scents are a hit and a miss....some are not good like Guerlain Jicky

People could extract then like now