
Steam-distilled Boswellia carterii oil — bright terpenic lift over a dry, resinous, faintly citric body.
Essential Oil
Sample dataSomali Frankincense Oil
Boswellia carterii
- Origin
- Somalia · declared
- Documentation
- Available for this lot
Demonstration dataListings, lots and offers shown are samplesAbout sample data
Application
Incense work uses raw resins, woods and oils in forms that are largely unavailable from conventional fragrance suppliers. Grading conventions here are traditional and market-specific, which makes origin and lot identification unusually important.
13 materials

Steam-distilled Boswellia carterii oil — bright terpenic lift over a dry, resinous, faintly citric body.
Essential Oil
Sample dataBoswellia carterii

Dhofari Boswellia sacra tears, sorted by the traditional colour-and-size grading.
Resin
Sample dataBoswellia sacra

Steam-distilled Commiphora myrrha — warm, bitter-balsamic, medicinal and deeply tenacious.
Essential Oil
Sample dataCommiphora myrrha

Hydrodistilled Aquilaria crassna oil. CITES Appendix II — supplied only against a documented permit pathway.
Essential Oil
Sample dataAquilaria crassna

Steam-distilled Santalum album heartwood oil — creamy, lactonic, exceptionally tenacious.
Essential Oil
Sample dataSantalum album

Hand-sorted Boswellia papyrifera tears — sharper and more turpenic than the Somali species.
Resin
Sample dataBoswellia papyrifera

Resinous Aquilaria crassna heartwood chips for burning. CITES Appendix II.
Fragrance Wood
Sample dataAquilaria crassna

Osyris lanceolata — CITES Appendix II and subject to national export controls. Listed for reference; not currently offered.
Essential Oil
Sample dataOsyris lanceolata

Cultivated Santalum album heartwood chips for incense and distillation feedstock.
Fragrance Wood
Sample dataSantalum album

Washed, dried and chopped vetiver root for distillation, tincture and direct use.
Aromatic Root
Sample dataChrysopogon zizanioides

Cistus ladanifer resinoid — ambery, leathery, sweet-balsamic and hugely tenacious.
Resinoid
Sample dataCistus ladanifer

Styrax tonkinensis resinoid — vanillic, sweet-balsamic and creamy.
Resinoid
Sample dataStyrax tonkinensis

Hand-picked Crocus sativus stigmas from the Taliouine region — leathery, honeyed and metallic.
Aromatic Flower
Sample dataCrocus sativus