3 reviews for Hyraceum (Africa Stone)
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26th April at 7.35pm: A quick update. Many parcels have left today. The situation is as follows, we still have one order left to process for the 10th (Paris retailer), one for the 11th and a lot more still for the 15th through to the 18th - mostly USA wholesale orders. The plan now is to work on orders across the weekend and by no later than Tuesday 30th - every order placed upto the 18th will be dispatched. Ideally they will all be out by Monday 29th but based on how I called it wrong recently I think it's better to call it for Tuesday. I'll update on order lead times for the 19th onwards on Monday 29th. It goes without saying that I am very sorry about the lead-time but like the lab and staff, it is now just a matter of a month or so before we are better organised, holding larger stocks of each aromatic, and in turn the lead-times will drastically improve going forward. Ok, back on Monday and thank you to everyone for the continued support. Thank you, Adam : )
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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€18.00 – €35.00
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.