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frankie.incense

Chicago · member since June 2025

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I lead a community choir in Chicago and I've loved church incense since I was a kid. Resins, smoke, old wood. Big history nerd, always asking where things come from.

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Sunday frankincense cone with the radiators onFun fact: a French public health sheet on candles, incense and indoor air says incense gives off higher concentrations… Midnight Mass incense and being seven againFun fact: Rachel Herz's review of odor-evoked memory says the memories a smell brings back tend to come from the first… Read: smell beats the carols at bringing Christmas backFun fact: Rachel Herz's review of odor-evoked memory reports that memories cued by a smell are rated more emotional… Enfleurage: swapping flowers on a sheet of fatFun fact, with a source: in cold enfleurage, as Wikipedia's article on enfleurage describes it, fat was spread on… Why nearly all musk now comes from a labFun fact, with a source: Wikipedia's musk article says nearly all the musk used in perfumery today is synthetic , and… Bell-shaped amber crystal perfume bottle lit up in a dark display case Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellFun fact, with a source: the encyclopedia's history of perfume names Tapputi, recorded on a Mesopotamian cuneiform…

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Describe vanilla without the word sweetVanillin is only about 2% of a cured vanilla pod by dry weight , so I'd guess the raisins, tobacco and hayloft in this thread come from everything else in… Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellThe fougère family entry says the family settles on oakmoss and coumarin, so the barber's shop and Bev's aftershave are definitely cousins [I love this thread]. Were old perfumes all natural before chemistry?The vanillin article says Tiemann and Haarmann synthesised it from coniferin in 1874. Lab-made smells definately predate your mother's dressing table [mine… Oud chips at Eid: are the trees protected?Fun fact: the FAO note on agarwood trade and CITES says Aquilaria malaccensis, one of the trees oud comes from, was listed in CITES Appendix II in 1995 because… Sunday frankincense cone with the radiators onThe Wikipedia article on perfume traces perfumery back to Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley, so I'm in very old company. [Old company with a cracked… My late husband's aftershave started all thisThe whole fougère family takes its name from Houbigant's Fougère Royale, created by Paul Parquet in 1882, according to Wikipedia's article on the fougère… Grasse began with gloves, Northampton with bootsThe same Grasse article lists jasmine, rose, lavender and orange blossom among the town's flowers, which definitely beats tannery smell [sorry, Ambrose]. Enfleurage sounds like dressing a hideThe article on absolutes describes the solvent route, hexane to a concrete, then ethanol, and lists rose, jasmine, tuberose, jonquil, ylang-ylang and mimosa as…