4 reviews for Gurjun Balsam
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23rd April at 4.10pm: Unfortunately, regarding the message below and lead-times, I called it wrong. My apologies. As such all orders placed upto the 15th - and about half of those placed on the 16th, will leave by Friday 26th. On Thursday no collections are possible by couriers as it's a national holiday here in Italy. On the subject of SDS, the company handling this for us, has written to me today, acknowledged more are owed to us (submitted in December and January) and that they are now working on producing the final lot of SDS for us. This includes Plantation, Wild and Jungle ouds that many of you ask about. Next, I have spent the past year (literally) sampling ambrette seed e.o and absolutes from various producers and resellers to no avail. They all smell really poor compared to what I carried. They are too nutty, too fatty, too vegetative, too lacklustre, falling away very fast, and really dont showcase the musky textured qualities of a top ambrette properly. Even the big naturals brands are all obtaining and selling sucky poor man's ambrette at the moment. Written as I have decided to move over to carrying ambrette CO2 and this will be in place until I can find a wow absolute and E.O again. CO2 is still not on par with what I had, but it offers a far better profile on the musky front than the abs and e.os in the market place right now. This CO2 will be in stock by early May. Next, we will put all the non.eu destinations we can supply to, back on our website on May 6th - so U.A.E, UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Australia. On the new product front, the next batch of 10 superstars will be released on the 20th May - lots more roses planned. And I will get started on expanding the bulk wholesale side of the business very soon - more aromatics and offered in larger weights as standard - likely upto a kilo on the website. Ok I will write again by Monday. Thank you, Adam : )
19th April at 5pm: Quick update to first say I have now added the following big ticket aromatics to the website: Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto). Orders, as I type with exception to 3 orders, every order placed up until the 11th has left with the couriers. By Monday 22nd, all orders placed up until the 14th will leave with couriers and I will type again across Monday with another update. Bulk Wholesale orders that still need to be manually typed and billed will be done so by Tuesday 23rd. Thank you, Adam : )
15th April at 5.30pm: Today I am running behind but I am happy to say that along with all E.U countries, we now can supply to the USA again. USA switched on just now and the Mysore Sandalwood 4 year aged E.O offer is extended for a week for USA clients to enjoy too. By Wednesday 17th all orders from the 9th April will be dispatched with DHL. Although we are rather full-on with orders at the moment, the lead time will improve significantly very shortly. Reason being since reopening the focus has been solely on building stocks up and we have staff coming on as well now (at last!). I will write again on Wednesday regarding lead times. This week my tasks are to get on top of the SDS we are owed by the company we have employed to handle this. And other than this I am adamant I will update the bulk wholesale list with more aromatics. Finally for now - the following 11 aromatics have recently been added to the site - French Rose Geranium E.O, Sandalwood Mysore E.O 4 Year Aged, Tuscan Olive Leaf Absolute, Mitti Attar (Petrichor), Persian Queen of Roses (Otto), Tomato Leaf Absolute, Oud Assami Skank E.O V.1, South Indian 10 Year Aged Vetiver E.O, Bengali Nagarmotha E.O, VIolet Leaf Concrete, Italian Helichrysum Absolute S.G. Thank you, Adam : )
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Mark Evans has this to say “Gurjun balsam essential oil is gently warm, sweet and complex and you’ll find yourself regularly turning to it when in the need for the perfect material to round off rough edges and seamlessly bridging one part of a composition with another. The soft fragrance is woody, sweet, dry, balsamic and resinous with hints of pine, patchouli and camphor – beautifully calming and centering.
Gurjun balsam itself is an oleoresin exuded from trees of the Dipterocarpus species which grow in various parts of Asia, particularly in India and is used in the varnish and lacquer industry there. In natural perfumery can be used in a wide variety of compositions as inexpensive fixative and blender/modifier in the same way as other similar materials such as copaiba, guaiacwood and sandalwood.
Due to its physical properties (to do with optical rotation of the molecules) as well as its versatile woody scent, gurjun oil is frequently used as an adulterant in patchouli, guaiacwood, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, vetiver and cubeb oils. On this point, in Indonesia it is common practice to space individual layers of patchouli leaves in the distillation vessel with twigs of the gurjun tree. Gurjun balsam present in the twigs contains an essential oil that contaminates the patchouli oil. Is this an adulteration of the patchouli or simply a method used in the production of the oil? Indeed, sometimes smelling gurjun balsam on the blotter the mind is tricked into thinking it’s smelling patchouli. Or is it that when smelling some patchouli oils, you’re also smelling gurjun balsam?”
Botanical Name: Dipterocarpus turbinatus
Origin: Indonesia
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Sarah J (verified owner) –
The first inhale for me takes me back to the late 80’s when my Mum used to take us 4 kids when to the first health food shop opened near where I lived in Newcastle – when dried Italian pasta was the new thing. It instantly takes me back to the smell of the rickety pine wooden shelves warmed up by the sun, mixed with all the dry spices, nutmeg, cinnamon, tumeric, dry ginger, dried fruit – raisins, figs, apricots, prunes, fig roll biscuits, oats, seeds, nuts, apple juice concentrate, rye bread, honey, dried herbs, chamomile & mint teabags, vanilla, incense sticks, teatree.
There is a hint of an intriguing floral which I think is Boronia. Then is becomes more dry versions of sweet earthy herbacious oils with patchouli / nagamotha / spikenard / vetiver and grasses, I am also reminded of oakmoss/treemoss/cedar moss/lichen. The residue several days in, is a creamy balsamic wood with delicate sweet spicy caramel and much more dried out patchouli.
The oils I was drawn to when I got this oil are to blend are all Hermitage with Blue Cypress and Wormwood Alba White Ice, Siberian Fir Co2, which when combined together totally surprised me as I’m instantly in the company of the aftershave smell of my long departed Latvian Grandad. I’ve got goosebumps after being taken back in time to these decades old scent memories!
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
This material is not the mind blowing oil but rather is the second violin in an orchestra that gives that warm sweet, patchouli, vetiver complex of notes that actually is a gift and in a good price!!
Rob Lloyd (verified owner) –
Am about to order 100ml of this after trying it. Perfect to harmonise all other accords…
Silvija V (verified owner) –
To Sarah J
Sveicieni no Latvijas, Tava vectēva dzimtenes. Arī man patīk šis aromāts. Silts un dziļš kā Latvija…stiprs un sīksts kā mēs-Latvijas cilvēki. Sirds sveicieni no senču mājām!