Rai Munir

Musk Man
Musk Attars: The left is Tibetan Musk based, and the right one is Kashmiri Musk based!
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Rai Munir

Musk Man
Have you added the frankincense as a whole tear? Any reason why you didn’t grind them down into smaller size? Would love to know the scent profile seems like an amazing mix
Yes, I macerated the whole tears without even breaking them. I wanted to see if they would get dissolved quickly. They dissolved quite slowly,

Fragrance is beautiful! Tincture itself is very very strong, but the slight signature scent of frankincense in the background is beautiful.

I was fed up with all frankincense oils. So, I decided to use tears instead of oil. Till today, I could try only one quality frankincense oil, and that is JK's Frankincense Oil.
 

Andrew Salkin

it's aboud time!
Staff member
Yes. Yes. Yes. There's nothing better than wood like this. It's often heartwood and clinky sounding when dropped on a table. It's wayyyy better imho than "chips" or "skin" chips and I also find they are cleaner much better. They aren't always the best for fumigating tho from the ones I have.

I had posted a couple hundred grams of phili wood a while back that met this exacting standard of dense heartwood but the pieces were thin and small so I think folks avoided them. But the aroma was incredible.

One of the reasons I don't mind shelling out a premium for Dr incense wood when it's available is bc it all meets this kind of standard and nearly always, the wood had a distinct smell at room temp. Enough so that opening the jar, you could be tricked into thinking you are smelling an oil. I have his tarakan sinking and it's great. Also I find that habzouds sinking woods are off the charts. I have Sri Lankan from 2 years ago. One of the first batches that was under the radar for a few months until people caught on and bought it all out. There are clinkers in there that I totally cherish.

On the subutism, I've also been leaning towards 1 constant temp (starting high) and staying there. I think you get a more full spectrum this way. Often if you geek out on low temp top notes, when you go to raise the heat, the aroma sometimes decreases - bc you now have less oil melding with the resin, and resin doesn't always smell great. There's of course some exceptions. Case in point this new cultivated kinam doesn't sustain well above a 18/24 on my heater.

But give it a shot. Ill burn tiny little scraps. Less than .05 at a time and just rock it at 20 until it starts giving off notes. If you burn this way, you'll save so much wood and also makes trying many woods at once more enjoyable and quick. Kind of like comparing wines - better to do it at the same time vs one of another.
 
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