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Ep370 - The Source of Nature's Scents | Dominique Roques

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The Magic of Frankincense

Frankincense is probably the most ancient perfume captured by men frankincense and cedarwood cedarwood okay so the frankincense you're right it's a very small tree it grows on the horn of africa. Immediately in a matter of five minutes you see little milky pearls appear in the wood which starts to exude what will become the frankincense tears. The meeting of the amazing smell of the cedar wood from lebanon with the smell of frankincense from the horn ofAfrica that's what I consider the absolute birth of perfumery in in the story of man, says author.

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