Essential oils · Woody & Resinous family
Myrrh essential oil
Commiphora myrrha
Một dược · Burseraceae
Warm, bitter, resinous, with a medicinal note and something like dried mushroom. It is dense, slow, and makes no effort to be likeable.
As with frankincense, myrrh burned in a censer and the steam-distilled oil are two different smells. The oil has no smoke. It keeps the bitterness and the resin, and stays on a smelling strip for days.
The Vietnamese name một dược comes from traditional East Asian medicine, where this resin has been used for a very long time. In blending it rarely stands alone. It is used as a dark ground for brighter smells to lean on.
- Plant part
- Resin
- Vietnamese name
- Một dược
- Scent family
- Woody & Resinous
- Plant family
- Burseraceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Myrrh
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Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Burseraceae Elemi · Frankincense · Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata
Also from the resin Benzoin · Copaiba · Frankincense · Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata
Same method: direct steam distillation Bay laurel · Eucalyptus dives · Fingerroot · Himalayan cedarwood · Lavandin · Ponderosa pine · Turmeric · Zedoary (white turmeric)