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Hyraceum (Africa Stone)
Important comments: For best tincture results, we encourage you to grind this raw material into powder form prior to adding alcohol. Whilst this may not be an enjoyable experience, it will aid you in achieving outstanding tincture material. A minimum of 1 year ageing is also encouraged to achieve optimal results.
Adam Michael has this to say “Every perfumer will be well aware of hyraceum which originates from the Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis), a type of desert living rodent-like creature. Rock hyrax live in colonies, many of which have existed in the same regions for thousands of years. In these locations there is a build-up of semi-fossilised waste, by now fairly sterile, that can be mined and extracted whilst not causing any harm to the animals.
And it is this semi-fossilised waste/raw material that we are now able to offer for sale. This hyraceum will enable the perfumer to create his or her own tinctures for a fraction of the price of buying ready made tincture, which we also offer.
The raw material on hand is a real stinker of the extreme, borderline black in colour, very urinal and faecal in aroma and perfect for some mind blowing tincture.”
Unfortunately, this material cannot be shipped to Australia or America
3 reviews for Hyraceum (Africa Stone)
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Indie Perfumer (verified owner) –
Hyraceum is a recent addition to the perfumer’s palette, a powerful animalic fixative obtained without harming the animal. Rock hyraxes live in colonies, and urinate and defecate in specially dedicated caves. Rain water dissolves their excrement, carrying it into the earth, where after several centuries, it becomes a semi-fossil that may be mined. For use in perfumery, it is possible to tincture hyraceum stones, resulting in a product whose odor recalls aspects of castoreum, civet, tobacco, agarwood and narcissus, with powerful, substantive, sweet, cresylic and phenolic notes, due to the presence of guaiacol and para-cresol. At present, the trade route for hyraceum stones is irregular, circuitous and unreliable, leaving much place for adulteration. I have evaluated samples from various online suppliers, and find those of Hermitage Oils to be the best available.
GinoF197 (verified owner) –
This is a very tough material to grind but it’s doable, I’ve managed to grind it to nearly powder and this was not a very pleasant experience just as Adam mentioned.
Very animalic and potent stuff this is, I have to wait for a long time now before I can use it. But I am sure this is going to be a very special tincture for my perfume creations.
Castoreum has a similar scent without the pissy odor etc.
Alberto (verified owner) –
I am a big fan of animalics scents. I have to say though that this one is by far the most unusual one out of the ones I tried and I have quite a few in my collection. Now, tinctured and smelled straight from the bottle it has a very pungent urinary scent, less on the fecal side. On a smelling strip I detect similarities with mongolian musk but less “floral”, if we can call any musks like scents floral. I also did a resinoid from it which actually helps in knowing the exact concentration of the product I’m using. The resinoid at 10% concentration is very very interesting I must say because besides the urinary, floral mix I can also detect some chocolatey facets, also a tad bit of almond, very addictive as are many animalic scents.Top notch material that shouldn’t miss from anyone’s collection.