A rich, resinous frankincense with a bright, almost lemony-terpenic top that settles into warm, dry balsamic incense smoke. As it develops, softer woody-spicy nuances and a faintly sweet, church-like character emerge — meditative and slightly dusty.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 288.
Olibanum appears as pale yellow or pale amber-colored, tear-shaped or drop-shaped, egg-shaped or almost round lumps, varying from pea-sized to walnut-size. Other grades may be orange-yellow, orange-red or brownish in color, and the tears may be agglutinated into large lumps.
The odor of the crude botanical will give certain indications; an experimental distillation will give the best answer.
To increase the production of olibanum from the bark, the natives (mostly Bedouins) make incisions in the bark at regular intervals. The viscous oleo-gum-resin which oozes out will soon resinify, and is either broken off the branches or collected from the ground where it sometimes may fall.