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  • It must not have any turpene based ingredients (like cooked rosins, or similar ingredients) because that stuff flies off with alcohol.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

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  • "Inside the silent grove, the fragrance of hemlock and cedar enfolded me at once in a mist of resins and turpenes, the odor cold and sharp, clean and invigorating...."

    —Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 397

    January 19, 2010