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New Lilac and Jasmine Pommades!

Delicious and smooth, new and luscious. Our new Pommades are here—lilac and jasmine!Remember, most flowers refuse to be distilled—jasmine and lilac are two of those. While some jasmines, like sambac, grandiflorum and a few others, will accept a hexane or CO2 extraction, jasmine polyanthum is not extracted, to my knowledge, anywhere, using those procedures. But all flowers can be enfleuraged.Why?Well, enfleurage is not really an extraction—it’s a persuasion. Almost every extraction, no mat …

About Our Frankincense Sourcing…..

We received lots of questions involving our sourcing, spurred on by the Vice News video about frankincense sourcing in Somaliland, so let me answer a few of those questions. That video is from Somaliland, with some information from Puntland; it involves corporate sourcing on a huge scale, and the corruption that comes along with it. It’s not about the traditional harvesting practices of frankincense, whether in the Horn of Africa or Arabia. Oman is a different country than Somaliland. It …

More About our Omani Frankincense Production

As you might already know, we have our own, independent distillery for frankincense, distilling our own Boswellia sacra in Muscat, Oman, since 2017. Before that, we were in Salalah, and I formed our company there in 2011. Dhofar, the Governate that Salalah is the capital of, is the nerve center of Omani frankincense. Frankincense trees love Dhofar, and voluntarily grow and thrive there. While they are possible to grow in the north, and even other countries, these trees will not flourish i …