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content/blog/learning-to-love-myrrh-by-making-a-myrrh-and-rose-incense.md

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 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.
 
-I've long had an inkling that myrrh would pair well with rose. It's challenging to incorporate flowers into combustible incense; some say it's close to impossible to do without winding up with an incense that smells of acrid burning plant material with, if you're lucky, a touch of whatever flower you've added. Certainly, I have found that often other methods of incorporating floral fragrances work best. Recently I have found, however, that if you start with very good material, and methodically try varying ratios in a series of trail-burning tests, you may wind up surprised by how close a fragrance you can achieve to the fragrance of fresh flowers while minimizing acrid notes. For instance, in my testing, I found that a combination of 30% Rosa Canina and 70% Santalum Spicatum, both very high quality powders given to me by [Dave of *The World Makes Scents*,](../visiting-chicago-incense-maker-dave-of-the-world-makes-scents/) smells absolutely wonderful.
+I've long had an inkling that myrrh would pair well with rose. It's challenging to incorporate flowers into combustible incense; some say it's close to impossible to do without winding up with an incense that smells of acrid burning plant material with, if you're lucky, a touch of whatever flower you've added. Certainly, I have realized that often other methods of incorporating floral fragrances work best. Recently I have discovered, however, that if you start with very good material, and methodically try varying ratios in a series of trail-burning tests, you may wind up surprised by how close a fragrance you can achieve to the fragrance of fresh flowers while minimizing acrid notes. For instance, in my testing, I found that a combination of 30% Rosa Canina and 70% Santalum Spicatum, both very high quality powders given to me by [Dave of *The World Makes Scents*,](../visiting-chicago-incense-maker-dave-of-the-world-makes-scents/) smells absolutely wonderful.
 
 [![A beautiful light-pink dog rose, rosa canina.](/img/pexels-david-roberts-940521-8323579.webp "Rosa Canina in bloom, by [David Roberts on Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-dog-rose-in-bloom-8323579/)")](/img/pexels-david-roberts-940521-8323579.webp)
 

eleventy.config.js

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 import { DateTime } from "luxon";
+import { eleventyImageTransformPlugin } from "@11ty/eleventy-img";
 import markdownIt from "markdown-it";
 import markdownItFootnote from "markdown-it-footnote";
 import markdownItAnchor from "markdown-it-anchor";
@@ -36,6 +37,17 @@ export default async function(eleventyConfig) {
 	eleventyConfig.addWatchTarget("content/**/*.{svg,webp,png,jpeg}");
 
 	// Official plugins
+	/*
+	eleventyConfig.addPlugin(eleventyImageTransformPlugin, {
+		extensions: "html",
+		formats: ["webp"],
+		widths: [270,540,810,1080],
+			defaultAttributes: {
+				loading: "lazy",
+				decoding: "async",
+			},
+			urlPath: "/img/",
+	});*/
 	eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginRss);
 	eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginSyntaxHighlight, {
 		preAttributes: { tabindex: 0 }

package.json

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 	"homepage": "https://upchur.ch/gitea/n_u/nathanupchurch.com",
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@11ty/eleventy": "3.0.0-alpha.13",
-		"@11ty/eleventy-img": "^3.1.0",
+		"@11ty/eleventy-img": "5.0.0-beta.10",
 		"@11ty/eleventy-navigation": "^0.3.5",
 		"@11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle": "^1.0.4",
 		"@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss": "^1.2.0",