Sucrose (table sugar) is made by joining two specific monomers, glucose and fructose. Different monosaccharide pairs produce many of the common disaccharide sugars we associate with food, including sucrose, maltose (malt sugar, two glucose monomers) and lactose (milk sugar, glucose and galactose monomers).
Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in religious ceremonies across a wide territory from India to Europe. Catholic Church iconography uses spikenard to represent Saint Joseph. With this meaning, Pope Francis has included
lol @ enfleurage. Spikenard is a stinky note but my sample does not smell overtly of feet. It has a bit of the camphoraceous element of patchouli but is less sweet and instead more musty, dank, and leathery. It is useful in very small quantities to add a leathery presence in the dry down.he latter smells a bit earthy and woody but not of feet (divine or otherwise). Take a look at the Good Scents Company page on spikenard oil and youâll see a description of the refined version. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.