Essential oils · Woody & Resinous family
Frankincense essential oil
Boswellia carterii
Nhũ hương · Burseraceae
Resin, lemon, pine. The opening is bright and close to lemon peel, then it settles into a warm, slightly spicy layer of resin.
Many people expect the solemn smoke of a church and are surprised not to find it. That smoke is burnt resin; the oil is resin distilled with steam, and the two processes give two quite different smells. The main compound here is alpha-pinene, which is also the main compound of pine resin.
This catalogue has four Boswellia species, and they are not interchangeable. Carterii is the brightest and most lemony; sacra is rounder, serrata cloudier, frereana sweeter and less piney.
- Plant part
- Resin
- Vietnamese name
- Nhũ hương
- Scent family
- Woody & Resinous
- Plant family
- Burseraceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Frankincense
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Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Burseraceae Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata · Opopanax · Palo santo
Also from the resin Elemi · Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata · Labdanum · Peru balsam
Same method: direct steam distillation Cassia bark · Catnip · Clove basil · Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata · Niaouli ct 1,8-cineole · Nutmeg