Does myrrh smell like pine trees in a way?
Or any kind of forest smell.
It smells herbal, fresh, and more like balsam or cedar than pine to me, but not all that much. It smells a great deal like tansy. Smells are notoriously hard to define, and are perceived differently by different people. It could be described as forest-like, yes.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
It smells herbal, fresh, and more like balsam or cedar than pine to me, but not all that much. It smells a great deal like tansy. Smells are notoriously hard to define, and are perceived differently by different people. It could be described as forest-like, yes.
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November 28th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Yes, resinous scents depend on a mixture of complex sesquiterpenes. Myrrh from Commiphora myrrha is not exactly the same as from Commiphora erythraea or Boswellia carter yet all have been used historically in harvesting the resin for use as myrrh. Pines also have blends of sesquiterpenes.
Myrrh has a number of fragrant molecules in the resin: furanosesquiterpenoids, lindestrene primarily. http://www.bojensen.net/EssentialOilsEng/EssentialOils20/EssentialOils20.htm#Myrrh
It is the pinene and the sequiturpenoids that scent pine tree resins.
http://www.bojensen.net/EssentialOilsEng/EssentialOils25/EssentialOils25.htm
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