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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julianne Guaron

The myrrh tree that's key to luxury perfumes and African incomes is threatened by drought

Climate Ethiopia Myrrh - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is under pressure from what experts call a historic drought.

Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense forest in the Somali region of Ethiopia are in danger, locals say.

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