Words And Special Meanings

I guess if you asked a hundred people what color 'amber' is they will predominantly say 'yellow' or a translucent yellow or yellow-orange.'

Now we have seen in the recent prior articles here that even in the case of the 'mythological' 'cave of wonders' in actual reality such a thing truly exists. And, the real version that is located in Travancore has all the same elements contained in the basic fairy-tale: magic words of opening, curse, immense treasure within, even the aspect of a guileless youth who could be sent inside to obtain some of the treasure.

Dominican blue amber is very rare - only about 100g a year
are mined

In a world today in which it seems that you can get anything and everything quite readily by using money to buy it, I'll give you an example (of which there are quite a few) of something that you cannot get commercially - and which is quite surprising given that the kinds of people behind these markets and ventures you would suppose 'already know it all...'

Amber - real stone resin amber, not ambergris from whales - when burned, gives off this churchy, sort-of medicinal frankincense-y odor which is used extensively in modern Oriental-classified perfumes. The obvious examples are the Guerlain suite which includes Shalimar, and Encens Mythique D'Orient, and say also Opium by YSL, and Tabu by Dana, and maybe Dior's Poison. All of these have amber in varying degrees of prominence.

But they are all standard 'yellow' amber.

There is another amber - Dominican amber - and it is incredibly rare, and it is blue. It also renders an amazing scent when burned or rubbed... 'Blue amber' is mostly from the Dominican Islands, but it is also available in tiny quantities from other places around the world where there had been ancient prehistoric forests - now fossilized - of a kind of a gigantic pea flower tree, or a giant prehistoric bean tree.

Now it doesn't matter to me that Clive Christian claims to make the world's most expensive cologne or aftershave or perfume...

LOL.

So far then, you know the key ingredients are: Sesame oil, and amber. Because I have told you.

But you need to know what to do with the Sesame oil, same as I have just discussed that it is the 'blue' type of amber which is used. You can't put the Sesame oil into the fragrance. That is not the point of it.