Gathered from incense trees and bushes this aromatic resin is deliciously complex in scent – warm, woody, spicy, sweet, smoky, creamy – and has been used for millenia to perfume the body and sweeten the air. The things we know are neither rich nor rare,īut wonder how the devil they got there.” Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! Think of the vanished Amber Room in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo: a golden chamber entirely plated with sheets of amber, vanished since 1945. This is the amber which catches vegetation and insects in its path and thousands of years later may end up, fossilised, as jewellery or used in interior decoration. “An amber scent of odorous perfume” may have a variety of origins.įirstly there is the resin exuded by certain trees to heal damage to their bark. One of perfumery’s most ancient ingredients, amber is also one of the most mysterious and most confusing due to the semantics of its name. The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
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