Onward!
Onward!
Posted by Trygve Harris on 24th Oct 2025
Onward!
Many of you have asked what's up with our distillery and when are we restarting production and where are we moving to and other questions in this vein. I know I keep saying one thing and then another but we do actually now have a plan. Here's the deal:
At the beginning of 2023, as we were visiting Dubai, thinking perhaps we should move the distillery there from Muscat as Oman had become very difficult due to circumstances after HM Qaboos passed away and then covid.
But I had a serious medical situation, which the doctors in Dubai found. I had open heart surgery to replace my mitral valve, in March 2023, in Abu Dhabi. At the same time, we discovered I had another cancer (my third, I am geneticially predisposed.) So rather than start working, I started chemo and radiation. Due perhaps to the chemo, the heart immedicaly recalcified, and I had another valve replacement open heart surgery in New York in October 2024. This one was far more thorough, and the past year has been spent healing from all of it.
In the meantime, the UAE proved to not be the right place for us to distill frankincense, although it's a very good place to live, and an excellent atmosphere for rest and recuperation. Why all this information?
To explain so that people understand why I took a long distillation hiatus.
We have to update, as we are not moving to Europe.
In the meantime, we will update when we things solid
