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Frankincense

Boswellia sacra

Boswellia resin. Lemon and pine at first, then a cool incense that can carry a composition as its heart.

Place in the wear
Heart
The middle of the wear. Where most of the idea lives.
Office
Heart
Carries the idea of the composition.
Family
Resin
Type
Essential oil
CAS
8016-36-2
Origin
Dhofar and the Somali coast
Span
Long for a resin that opens with lemon. The incense remains after the citrus.
Odor
Lemon peel, pine, pepper, cool church incense
Also called
Frankincense oil, Boswellia carterii oil

Frankincense is a resin tapped from Boswellia, burned as incense and distilled into an oil that is brighter than people expect. The first minutes are lemon, pine, and a little pepper. What remains is the cool, mineral incense.

That remaining part is why the house files it as a heart, not only as a base. It can be the idea. Myrrh makes it more bitter and ancient. Neroli makes it more floral. Sandalwood turns the incense into cream. The resin itself is the sentence.

Each species gives its own incense: sacra, including the Hojari of Dhofar, carterii from Somalia, frereana, papyrifera, rivae, neglecta and serrata from India. Incensole and its acetate mark papyrifera, alpha-thujene is abundant in serrata, and cembrene A belongs to the heavier part of the resin.

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