3 reviews for Hyraceum (Africa Stone)
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4th May at 10.40am: Remaining orders placed between the 24th to the 29th April will all leave with couriers by the 6th May. By the middle part of the coming week I think we will have our lead-time down to 3-4 working days going forward as we have built our stock levels up considerably - and will keep doing so. Thanks, Adam : ) P.S - Across the coming week I am finally going to start expanding the bulk wholesale offering : )
2nd May at 8pm: Quick update to say we can now supply to - U.A.E, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, UK, Switzerland and Australia. Thank you, Adam : )
30th April at 2.40pm: As I type orders placed upto the 15th April have all been collected by couriers - except the Paris retailer. All orders placed upto the 23rd April will be dispatched with couriers by May 3rd. I'll update on order lead times for the 24th April onwards across the morning of Saturday 4th May. Please be assured we are working as fast as we can to get the lead-time down. Finally for now just a recap - new materials recently added - 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, Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto) Thank you, Adam : )
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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
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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.