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White Flowers

Are you one of those people who just wants to smother yourself in jasmine? Is your favorite perfume a string of sambac blossoms? Do you have gardenias strategically planted along your walk to ease your comings and goings? Are you someone who dreams in tuberose? Are you a floral freak, a fanatic, a fiendish follower of flowers?Sometimes our hearts crave the soft and sweet reality of blooming flowers, as they grow, as they are connected to the earth. No matter how delicious an absolute, how …

Chemotherapy

Many people ask about this. And it’s no wonder; a bad diagnosis can upend the patient’s life and the people who love and care for her/him. It’s natural to want to help, and this help is often in the form of looking up stuff online and then forwarding it to your loved one. That’s not actually helpful.Believe me please when I say I’ve had a lot of experience with chemo, both myself and so many people I care about. I had ACT (Adriomyacin-Cytoxin-Taxol) chemo in 2016 for Breast Cancer. I did …

Distillation Station

As some of you know, we own and operate our frankincense distillery in Muscat, Oman, where we have access to the best, juiciest, most fragrant and delicious Omani gum/resin. Boswellia sacra, that’s all we do. We started in 2008, in Salalah, with one single alembic, and made it official in 2011, growing to 5 stills. In 2016 we shifted to Muscat, where we remain today, in our small and sturdy distillery by the sea, using 10 copper alembics in a closed and renewable system, that generates ve …