diff --git a/content/blog/learning-to-love-myrrh-by-making-a-myrrh-and-rose-incense.md b/content/blog/learning-to-love-myrrh-by-making-a-myrrh-and-rose-incense.md index 6087a0e..7c52bf0 100644 --- a/content/blog/learning-to-love-myrrh-by-making-a-myrrh-and-rose-incense.md +++ b/content/blog/learning-to-love-myrrh-by-making-a-myrrh-and-rose-incense.md @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ tags: synopsis: "I finally figure out how to make myrrh work in a composition." imageURL: /img/pexels-david-roberts-940521-8323579.webp imageAlt: A beautiful light-pink dog rose, rosa canina. -mastodon_id: "" +mastodon_id: "112909867440319574" --- -Myrrh can be a challenging note. I've seen the resins collected from various members of the Commiphora genus described as everything from loamy, bitter, and mushroomy, to reminiscent of cleaning fluid or a dental clinic; whatever impression you take from the fragrance of myrrh resin, there's no denying that it's unique; there is no mistaking myrrh. While I'm rarely a fan of myrrh alone, or as the predominant note in a sparse composition, I've always felt that there is something compelling about it. Despite its overall unpleasantness, I find heated myrrh resin to produce a dark, mysterious, and somehow sexy fragrance. When balanced well, such as in Mystic Jade from Shoyeido's Magnifiscents collection, it adds a wonderful, earthy warmth to a composition that's hard to beat. +Myrrh can be a challenging note. I've seen the resins collected from various members of the Commiphora genus described as everything from loamy, bitter, and mushroomy, to reminiscent of cleaning fluid or a dental clinic; whatever impression you take from the fragrance of myrrh resin, there's no denying that it's unique; there is no mistaking myrrh. While I'm rarely a fan of myrrh alone, or as the predominant note in a sparse composition, I've always felt that there is something compelling about it. Despite its overall unpleasantness, I find heated myrrh resin to produce a dark, mysterious, and somehow sexy fragrance. When balanced well, such as in *Mystic Jade* from Shoyeido's *Magnifiscents* collection, it adds a wonderful, earthy warmth to a composition that's hard to beat. For some time I've struggled to incorporate myrrh into a stick that I can be proud of; it isn't a resin that you can just drop into a composition with the expectation that it'll work. My experiments with commiphora kua, opoponax, and wightii have all ended in disappointment… until recently.