Costus

Word COSTUS
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The substance called costus was highly prized by the ancients, and specimens may be met with at a few of the London drug-houses. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

To this I added tobacco and cade to create and even smokier, leathery impression which was what I mostly associated with the concept of a gaucho; and costus for an animalic presence. ❋ Ayala Sender (2008)

Another note that stands out is that of labdanum, a resinous, ambery oleoresin from the rockrose bushes also grown on the Mediterranean mountains and hillsides and a pulsating undercurrent of costus, with its musky goat-like horns that is perhaps the reason why Pan jumps into the picture. ❋ Ayala Sender (2008)

In a connotation that now seems to be everything but original, I have paired notes of carnation (chosen for the association of Spain, Flamenco and carnations) with sweet animalic base notes dominated by costus, which turned out fantastic even though a bit quirky and peculiar (costus will add peculiarity to any perfume with its animalic sensuality). ❋ Ayala Sender (2008)

Once I have discovered that costus should not be used on the skin, I had to neglect the idea of letting anyone but myself use my Altamira perfume. ❋ Ayala Sender (2008)

I was wearing Espionage my original, costus-based formula ad sipping a blend of earl gray and lapsang suchong. ❋ Ayala Sender (2008)

The angelica absolute on its own might just be the answer for an animalic musky note sans the lactones sensitization issues that costus poses. ❋ Ayala Sender (2007)

Notably absent from this whole discussion is just how much all this stuff that neo-cons want to accomplish will actually costus. ❋ Unknown (2007)

An ointment made of the tabernamontana coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus, and the flacourtia cataphracta, can be used as an unguent of adornment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The base, originally, was spikenard (a musty root that is reminiscent of wet soil), costus (a musky root that smells like goats), and labdanum (the resin from the same rockroses that grew on the mountains that were my inspiration). ❋ Ayala Sender (2006)

I am hoping to find some great surprises when I am back… Schizm already smells lovely, with the new creamy tuberose and the addition of orange blossom for a vividly sensual white floral heart, and cepes and ambrette to supply the muskiness of the original costus formula. ❋ Ayala Sender (2006)

Next to ambrette seed, costus root is another extremely important vegetale-musk. ❋ Ayala Sender (2006)

A woman who hears a man playing on a reed pipe which has been dressed with the juices of the bahupadika plant, the tabernamontana coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus, the pinus deodora, the euphorbia antiquorum, the vajra and the kantaka plant, becomes his slave. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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