Blessing on Boxes of Spices

Blessings on smells

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Question

Should one recite the blessing on spices [trees, herbs, or types] for boxes that are sold containing various spices?

Answer

Shalom and blessings

There are spices available in the market that are natural spices with added drops of fragrance essences, and it is not simple to bless them with the blessing on spices.

The reason is that the fragrance essences are absorbed into the natural spices, and this is considered a fragrance without a source, which is not blessed. Also, the essences are synthetic [and the fragrance of the natural spices is not so noticeable, and perhaps one follows the majority quality of the fragrance which has no source, is also synthetic, and sometimes the natural fragrance is not noticeable at all]

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