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 si …

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 …

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 …