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Myrrh CO2 ORGANIC (SELECT)
Adam Michael has this to say “The aroma of organic myrrh CO2 is balsamic warm, cream sweet, oriental spicy and extremely tenacious. This material blends well with frankincense, sandalwood, opoponax and benzoin to name just a few. Myrrh also complements patchouli so beautifully and actually excels in adding warmth, depth and character to patchouli materials of young age.
Therapeutically, myrrh blended down at 50% in organic sweet almond is a very good way to treat mouth and gum infections. All you do is add a few drops of the 50:50 blend you have made to a glass of warm water and gargle for a minute and then spit it all out. Repeat after meals and upto 3 times per day. Massaging this 50:50 material onto the throat area will also help those suffering with a sore throat and/or voice loss.
This organic CO2 is a select extract, rich golden honey yellow in colour, very sticky but of a pourable viscosity and the major constituents are 23.7% curzerene, 37.7% isolindestrene and 17.3% lindestrene.”
Botanical Name: Commiphora myrrha
Origin: Somalia
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NOP –organic cert. by CERES
6 reviews for Myrrh CO2 ORGANIC (SELECT)
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Mauricio (verified owner) –
I was confused when I first sniffed it neat from the bottle. All I thought I knew about Myrrh was from commercial perfumes with a ‘very prominent Myrrh note’ and it smells nothing like that. It is bitter-ish while still being sweet, hot without making your eyes water, uncomfortable yet cozy and, well, addictive despite/because of all that? I didn’t know what to do with it before diluting, then it made sense.
It must be brought at least up to 50% to be fully appreciated (although I like it neat, nowadays). At the 50-50 mark, it becomes sweeter, but still a bit too feral. Around the 30%-25% mark lies my sweet spot, when this material becomes majestic, mystical. This offering is a great introduction to Myrrh since I think other types (like the Ghugul and the Black Myrrh) are a tad more complex and, thus, even more difficult to comprehend.
My only gripe here, that eats up one star, is versatility. I love to tweak with scents and Myrrh seems to do what it does and that’s it. It certainly pairs well with other resins, and base notes such as Sandalwood, Patchouli, Vetiver etc, but I couldn’t blend it successfully, yet, with fruits without making a saccharine mess, or with herbs without making it smell like bad medicine or with flowers without feeling like I opened a gate to the land of the dead. The problem, though, lies within my abilities since I’m having a hard time figuring out how to use this sticky and dominant resin properly.
thursturston (verified owner) –
This is unique myrrh material, and demonstrates how much resins can vary. To me this has a very medicinal feel, herbal, ancient, quite reminiscent of herbal cough mixture, with a strange, arid, bitter-sweetness.
If you’re expecting the toffee sweetness of the Ethiopian soap myrrh (also available here) then think again.
It’s a powerful material and despite diluting it to a relatively low concentration it can easily dominate in incense accords, shrouding olibanum as it tends to do…I need to play around more. That’s just my lack of skill in blending though because in the right hands I’m sure this material is fantastic, I smelled a similar medicinal myrrh note in Les Indemodables Oriental Velours recently.
Sarah J (verified owner) –
I love Myrrh but many of my aromatherapy clients not so much as they find too pungent.
This Myrrh CO2 offering is subtle and complex but without the overpowering-ness of the E.O. I’m really taken with it, it’s sweet, warming and dry, balsamic, reminds me of that delightful smell of old wooden furniture that has been baked in the sun. I find it really calming and comforting – in a sleep infront of a warm log fire on a rug kind of way, a deliciously delicate smokyness, it feels ancient, musky, but it also has a refreshing smell – it always upflifts me – it feels so healing to the soul.
Another benefit I have an E.O. from a different brand where the oil somehow seeps up through the lid making it tricky to open, this CO2 doesn’t do that.
dnushaj (verified owner) –
A deeply-relaxing, mesmerizing, and meditative scent. It is highly evocative of museums, old libraries, maybe mummies? I agree with Sarah, this could be the scent of a wooden lodge with a burning fire and wooden masks or old tapestries hanging on the walls. I think this is an essential scent for perfumers to experiment with; works magic with florals – especially roses and jasmines, as well as adding depth to leather perfumes and “dryness” to patchouli and cedar bases. It does need to be diluted to work with because of its viscosity and power.
Simon D (verified owner) –
My favourite Myrrh!
This material really transports me. It was a shock the first time I smelled it. It takes me to somewhere ancient, pre-historic, quiet. It is a very atmospheric extract that makes me think of cold, wet stones, fungus, lichen, streams of water, caves…. Natural Sorcery! A calming, serene experience, maybe even melancholic, definitely meditative and just truly special. No other Myrrh I have smelled gives me the same sensations. Really interesting together with Yarrow CO2. They are both like gates to magical worlds…
UTSAHAN (verified owner) –
Anytime I ever order from Hermitage, I can always rest assured about the quality, and for the Myrrh as well. Although I don’t consider Myrrh to be a perfume oil but a health oil- it was supposedly a favorite of Hippocrates, and it completely kills pain in case of burns, cuts, abrasions, as well keeps insects away. Myrrh is a true treasure even if not the most comforting aroma.