Knidonovan, so I guess the styrax is part of the oddness then. From Wordnik.com. [White Floral Queen Part Three: Serge Lutens Tubéreuse Criminelle] Reference
VARDAR, Y. and OF LAS, S. (1973) Preliminary studies on the styrax oil. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
It is mostly based on Peru balsam with hints of other balsams, vanilla, benzoin and styrax. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
All it has is my amber base no.3, with organic ginger CO2 and an extra boost of styrax added. From Wordnik.com. [Amber & Ginger, Part Two] Reference
We also found a white blooming tree that smelled precisely like styrax Liquidambar orientalis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The amber base includes plenty of styrax, plus benzoin, vanilla, tonka bean and two different labdanums. From Wordnik.com. [Amber & Ginger, Part Two] Reference
'Fargesii' Large leaves; flowers 2 weeks later than most styrax; greenish purple pedicels; tree like habit. From Wordnik.com. [JAPANESE SNOWBELL TREE ACCENTS JAPANESE MAPLE 'CRIMSON QUEEN'] Reference
Fothergilla, amelanchier, styrax japonicus, paper-bark maple, viburnums of all kinds, a 'green man' from Bamberg mine's from Norwich Cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [FOTHERGILLA 'BLUE SHADOW'] Reference
I would guess that the use of styrax resin and hyacinth, and possibly the clove, results in the dramatic opening, and traces of the almost medicinal quality of these accords remain. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
I am making a perfume with styrax up for my male friends but woman will want to wear as if a Veronica Lake looking lady decided to cozied up to Marlon Brando's jacket in "the wild one". From Wordnik.com. [White Floral Queen Part Three: Serge Lutens Tubéreuse Criminelle] Reference
We know about chypre scents being made on the island as early as the 12thOyselets de Chypre Chypre Birds were formed from a paste of labdanum, styrax and calamus, mixed with tragacanth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Gums, powders, roots, glass phials, branches of filipendula, and rose-petals were scattered about everywhere, and the scents were stifling in spite of the cloud-wreaths from the styrax shrivelling on a brazen tripod in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Note: top images of paper cutout and styrax via Wikimedia Commons. From Wordnik.com. [Now Smell This] Reference
L'Héritier proposes to treat blennorrhagias and leucorrhoeas with liquid styrax. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The notes include black lily of the valley accord, citron, bergamot, matcha green tea, styrax, benzoin, tonka bean and incense. From Wordnik.com. [Now Smell This] Reference
Both poplars and storax or styrax trees are common in Palestine, and either would suit the passages where the Hebrew term occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
In the vicinity of Xalapa, thick forests of styrax, piper, melastomata, and ferns resembling trees, afford the most delightful promenades imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe] Reference
Mysterious, enclosed by twisting trunks: rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias, but viewing points take you above the cloud of maple, acer, styrax, oak leaves to reveal its rainbow vastness fringed by sea and coast: magical. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Through rare elements like black hemlock extract and the smell of raw opium, you will enter an olfactive space where saffron, tuberose absolute, tonka bean, styrax resin, and treemoss slowly unfold round a musky leather heart. From Wordnik.com. [Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion] Reference
Stuartia pentagyna.styrax. subsoiling. subtropical gardening, mentioned sulfate of potash sulfide of potassium sulfur as fungicide sumac sunflowers, wild sunken fence surgery swainsona sweet-flag sweet gum sweet-herbs sweet pea, culture of sweet potato. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
Since there is already styrax in the amber formula, don’t even consider it an additional element or note. From Wordnik.com. [Amber & Ginger, Part Two] Reference
Many insects are killed by the smell of brimstone; ants, if the apertures to their dwellings be smeared with powdered origanum and brimstone, quit their nests; and most insects may be banished with burnt hart’s horn, or better still by the burning of the gum styrax. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
DIAPOULIS, C. (1952) Le styrax en Grce. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Sultry: tuberose, jasmine, tolu balsalm, labdanum, styrax, orange blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
Calice Becker is the perfumer, and the notes are mandarin, saffron, bergamot, patchouli, hawthorn, jasmine, ylang-ylang, orris root, birch and styrax. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume Posse] Reference
It may be suspected that the "royal ointment" of the Parthian kings, composed of cinnamon, spikenard, myrrh, cassia, gum styrax, saffron, cardamum, wine, honey, and sixteen other ingredients, was adopted from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Bananas, egg-plants, locust-trees, banyans, terebinths, the gum-styrax, the gum-tragacanth, the assafoetida plant, the arbor vitse, the castor-oil plant, the Judas-tree, and other somewhat rare forms, sprang up side by side with the pomegranate, the oleander, the pistachio-nut, the myrtle, the bay, the laurel, the mulberry, the rhododendron, and the arbutus. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
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