How to make anise scents?

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The $7 for 1 oz. anise oil on Amazon is pure anise oil. It's intended for aromatherapy (for fish! lol). The Now Foods site has this to say about it:

Ingredients:  100% pure star anise oil.
Extraction Method:  Steam Distilled from ripened seed of plant.

That's the stuff I'm talking about; I paid $5.99 an ounce from Albertson's pharmacy & that was 5 or 6 years ago. What you get on the spice isle is a dried "seasoning" & no matter how much you put in the pot to boil you'll get nothing but a flavoring.