[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience - incense

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Tue Aug 6 14:04:10 PDT 2002


> But wouldn't the folks bothered by burning sage leaves also be bothered
> by the aroma given off by the sage leaves, even when not burning? Or is
> that amount of vapor at such a lower level that this doesn't occur? Or
> is the heat of the burning needed to change the sage oils into something
> irritating?

Burning the leaves releases a much higher amount of oil into the air than
merely having them around. Not as much as, say, heating expressed or
extracted essential oil of the plant, but more than having it around.

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