Frankincense Serrata Absolute India

I have two steadfast rules about oils, absolutes in particular: first, don’t wear the absolute undiluted on skin and second, dilute the absolute. I’ve managed to break both with Frankincense absolute. In the past, I’ve evaluated frankincense carterii absolute and felt it wasn’t a rival for the frankincense CO2 I’ve been aging for the last four years. A high bar to meet, I know but one compost of making perfume This absolute, barely a year old, has quite frankly knocked me off my feet. It’s a warm, rich middle note that has the wisdom of aging but the experience of artisan distillation. There is a very muted, softened citrus top note but vastly different from the typical citrus notes found in a frankincense extraction. This absolute could easily be a component in a fougère but I can also see it in amber accord, something I wouldn’t ever consider for an amber note. It’s the seductive cognac heart notes that makes its inclusion a possibility. I found that dilution in perfumer’s alcohol is a little bit of a challenge but that the absolute absorbs into the alcohol within a couple of hours to be filtered out as usual.