Unfortunately, frankincense, a sweet-scented resin from the desert tree Boswellia, has become even rarer and will continue to do so, researchers report today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Inevitably, if you wanted to buy cannabis 20 years ago, you were sold resin, a sweet-smelling brown block that looked like a stock cube and probably contained bits of old tyre.
And the button factory, bolstered by a stable work force, spat out four million buttons a day over three shifts, the sweet smell of polyester resin fumes overtaking the odors of the old landfill.
Drug paraphernalia, including tights, spoons, a capped syringe - which was found hidden in a box of sweets by her body - and resin from heroin were all recovered from the scene.
My favorite lady who crushed her own incense out of sweet grass, cedar leaf, and Persian resins… that smell, I will never forget.
The air was sharp and sweet that high in the mountains, scented with pine resin and recent rain.
He comments that "the "precious bitter resin" into which Myrrha's tears are changed tastes bitter and sweet, like Desire as a whole".
A profusion of fragrant images, of resins, of orange peel, of grapefruit, of carrot, of opoponax, of juniper, an odor that was sweet and sour, vivid and mild.
A few of them are solid sweet, built from a mixture of sugar, corn-syrup and water, and cooked at 300 degrees Fahrenheit, while the rest are resin coated in molasses and sugar.
The bowls and pipes of yore, abandoned but caked with resin, will become tiny treasure chests waiting to be found by starving, bored New Yorkers and gently scraped for their sweet tarry filling.
