And lately I am really into combining frankincense and elemi. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Notes: SmellyBlog's Take On Parfum de Jour] Reference
Created by Sophie Labbé, the fragrance is a blend of ginger, coriander, elemi, vetiver, cedar, labdanum and tonka bean. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The scent starts pleasantly sharp, with a spicy, almost clove-like and at the same time balsamic accord of bergamot, bay and elemi. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The following is a varnish for iron and steel given by a recognized authority: 5 parts of camphor and elemi, 15 parts of sandarach, and. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing] Reference
I love the interplay of the sweeter ginger and sharper, more fiery coriander in the beginning, and the way spices enliven the dry resinousness of cedar and elemi. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
It includes, besides hyacinths, sweet neroli, an abundance of the ethereal rosewood essence, light and airy lavender oil, elemi, sandalwood, myrrh and frankincense. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem to the Zodiac Perfumes] Reference
These forests are also considered broad-leaf hardwoods that grow on limestone soil and include some of dominant tree species such as maderia or Caribbean Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), and Gum-elemi or gum-limbo (Bursera simaruba). From Wordnik.com. [Bahamian dry forests] Reference
"I didn't think it was real at first," van Veghel says of the contact made with her website, elemi.ca, last fall. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
We believe that elemi possesses the same properties as copaiba, and that its indications for internal use are the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The French pharmacist Meaujean demonstrated in 1820 that elemi contains two resins, one soluble in the cold, and the other in hot spirits of wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Pili-pitch, or elemi, as they call it in Manila, is a substance existing in soft masses, slightly yellowish or gray, resembling old honey in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Sainte-Claire Deville found the essential oil levogyrous, a fact that emphasizes the probability of there being different products in the market bearing the name of elemi. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The trees, likewise, which afford gummi elemi, grow here in great abundance; as doth radix Chinæ, or China root: yet this is not so good as that of other parts of the western world. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main] Reference
Sidesplittingly, the free on line poker is far soughingly from decasyllabic langsat that they elemi not yet pragmatical dreyfus that shrublet slighting is, accommodatingly, staggeringly. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The top notes of this Tinseltown-inspired scent is a hypnotic blend of bergamot, thyme, elemi and mandarin, leading to the red carpet-ready cologne's signature scent -- a fusion of lavender, cedarwood, rosewood and jasmine. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Travel News] Reference
Other chemists, among them Baup, Flückiger and Hanbury, have found elemi to be composed of a resinous substance and a colorless essential oil; the proportion of the latter Flückiger gives as 10\% and further states that it is dextrogyrous. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Additional notes include blood orange, pink pepper, cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg, coriander, elemi, lemon peel, benzoin and vanilla. From Wordnik.com. [Now Smell This] Reference
The secretions from various vegetable glands hardened in the air produce gums, resins, and various kinds of saccharine, saponaceous, and wax-like substances, as the gum of cherry or plumb-trees, gum tragacanth from the astragalus tragacantha, camphor from the laurus camphora, elemi from amyris elemifera, aneme from hymenoea courbaril, turpentine from pistacia terebinthus, balsam of Mecca from the buds of amyris opobalsamum, branches of which are placed in the temples of the East on account of their fragrance, the wood is called xylobalsamum, and the fruit carpobalsamum; aloe from a plant of the same name; myrrh from a plant not yet described; the remarkably elastic resin is brought into. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
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