27th September at 8.30pm: Quick message to say all orders (unless the client has been notified otherwise) placed up to the 13th September have been completed and will be collected across tomorrow by the couriers. Tomorrow, we start working on orders placed on the 14th September. Thank you, Adam
22nd September at 10.55pm: Happy and relieved to type that orders placed on the 8th, 9th, 10th September have now all been completed and will be collected across tomorrow by the couriers. This means that tomorrow (Friday 23rd September) we will start working on orders placed between 11th, 12th and 13th. All of these orders will be dispatched by Wednesday 28th September. And then on September 28th, we will begin working on orders placed on 14th September and should clear those orders by no later than the 10th October. I will write here again across the early part of next week with another update. I finish for now by saying thank you to everyone, especially our long-standing clients for all your support, loyalty, patience and well wishes. Adam : )
PLEASE READ VERY CAREFULLY – LEAD-TIME UPDATE
20th September at 10.35am: Orders placed between the 5th,6th, 7th September were surprisingly easy, are all complete and are all being collected across the day by the couriers. So today we start working on orders placed on the 8th, 9th, 10th September. These orders will all be dispatched by Friday 23rd September. Then on Saturday 24th September we will start on orders placed between 11th, 12th and 13th. For orders placed on the final day of trade – 14th September, I will provide a lead-time for this date on Monday 26th September. Thank you, Adam : )
14th September at 9.45pm: We are now closed for 2022 and no more orders can be accepted. Adam : )
July 27th: Adam Michael here with an update. Ok, my partner Eleonora is pregnant with our first child. Written because across September Eleonora goes on maternity leave for 5 months and I intend to join her and use the opportunity to have a rest before the baby is born. The exact date will be confirmed nearer the time but for now just to say if you need anything from Hermitage Oils to please plan ahead because when we close it really will be for 5 months and during that time we will be completely out of contact. Thank you, Adam : )
Adam Michael has this to say “Somalian opoponax essential oil, also known as sweet myrrh, exudes a toffee sweet, fruit spicy, sticky resinous warm, salty, leathery aroma with white wine and chocolate nuances and all of incredible tenacity.
Unlike the absolute we offer this material is of a very liquid and pourable viscosity, amber in colour and produced by steam distilling the resin. In natural perfumery opoponax is used in chypre, fougere, leather bases, oriental bouquets, heavy-floral perfumes and pairs beautifully with frankincense, amber and bergamot naturals. The major constituents are trans beta ocimene and trans-alpha-bisabolene accounting for nearly 75% of this material.”
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rolandujvari (verified owner) –
Sweet warm, mesmerizing and resinous, it is sticky in a non literal way that it grabs your attention in a subtle manner, to my mind the smell is feminine, slender like a ballerina.
M (verified owner) –
– This sweet myrrh e/o begin like a varnish smell – somewhat similar to tarpentine smell, I remember some carpenters used in our old house in the mid-1980s.
– It then quickly becomes warm – quite myrrh like. But it is wamer and more rounded than the myrrh e/o I bought from here.
– Initially, the smell has some flinty quality accompanying some spicy vibes too. By flinty, I mean it’s progression have some discordance at the start but it quickly goes away and presents it’s beautiful warm, incensy and resinous quality. It remains so till the end.
– In some cases, it can be used to ‘fix’ some compositional mistakes.
– A fantastic material. 5/5
Chris Conway (verified owner) –
A heady, airy aroma but with a mineralistic and resinous back-note. To me it smells like a clean dishwasher that has just been opened, or bath sea salts bubbling in a jacuzzi. There is an overwhelming sense of purity and cleanliness when you inhale this aroma that makes you want more!