Hyraceum stone tincturing kit

Description

The kit for tincturing raw Hyraceum includes:

– 50 grams top grade Hyraceum stone, enough for 200 ml. of tincture

– A flask of 50 ml. 96° organic alcohol

– The detailed instruction sheet for tincturing Hyraceum, with the secrets of the trade.

Hyraxes will always use the same place to urinate and mostly a different place to defecate. This product is mostly very old and a Hyrax colony would build up a large mound of Hyraceum only over Centuries, and not over a few years.

Hyraceum is then the crystalized and petrified form of Hyrax urine. It is no wonder that Hyraceum is considered in South Africa as a remedy for kidney and bladder diseases and dysfunctions.

Hyraxes choose a place nearby their homes and it is probable that this odoriferous mass has a social pheromonal function (for example regulating the sexual maturity of the individuals), as well as marking the territory of the colony.

It is said that perfumery Hyraceum is fossilized, and it is in fact extremely dry, heavy, and hard like a stone, but I could not ascertain how old is the product, 10 000 years as some say, or just a few years in the dry climate of south Africa sufficient to dry it out so thoroughly? The least one can say is that it is petrified rather than fossilized.

The tincture is obtained by infusing the powdered raw material into pure alcohol for six months. The smell is akin to Castoreum but has a distinct urinary note that can be found only in goat hair tincture among perfumery materials.

Hyraceum definitely has an affinity with human beings, as its medical use shows. Its smell as well is not at all disgusting as one may think, but it could be described as “interesting”, even to unprepared people who are not at all perfumers.

Pheromones from different species are not that much different, even those of insects and mammals. This is why we humans can be influenced by such substances, and aromatic Hyraceum can certainly participate in the construction of the tri-dimensional perfume You can add your Hyraceum tincture as a fixative to your favorite perfumes. Animal tinctures are unique for giving perfumes a sensuality that no synthetic material can mimic.

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