Incense Resins

In use for over 5000 years, this fragrant desert resin has been prized by many cultures around the world for its therapeutic and spiritual properties.

Manila Elemi is the soft, fragrant oleoresin obtained from the trunk of the Canarium luzonicum. The resin Elemi is pale yellow or greenish in color and has a balsamic fragrance, smells a bit like Fennel.

Canarium strictum

Camphor is the white crystalline substance obtained from the tree Cinnamomum camphora.

Commiphora myrrha is indigenous to Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen, and South Arabia. Myrrh is the resin of this tree. Myrrh has been used from remote ages as an ingredient in incense, perfumes, etc.

Copaifera resin has traditionally been used by healers in the Amazon, and still burns as an incense during many ceremonies and in churches.

Copal resin was frequently used by the Mayans and Aztecs during ceremony dealing with purification.

This aromatic gum resin is now used in perfumery and many incense formulas.

A powerful incense, that was widely used medicinally by various North American Indian tribes.

Pine is purifying, refreshing, and uplifting. Sacred to the Druids. In Celtic times, Pine was one of the Seven Chieftain Trees of the Irish.

Benzoe is the resin from the tree Styrax benzoe, native to Indonesia. The aroma of this resin is relaxing, soothing and deeply sensual, with notes of sweet vanilla and cinnamon.

Sandarac resin is obtained from tears of the Cypress Sandarac tree that grows in the Atlas region in Morocco. The gum leaks from the bark and branches of the tree and hardens in the air.