Essential Oil
Sample dataSomali Frankincense Oil
Boswellia carterii
Origin VerifiedGC-MS Available
From$0.39 / g
Available
- SKU
- FRANKINCENSE-RESIN-002
- Material
- Resin
- Origin
- Ethiopia
- Extraction
- Hand-tapped and sorted
- Plant part
- Oleo-gum-resin
- Lots held
- 1
Frankincense ResinSample data
Ethiopian Frankincense Resin
Boswellia papyrifera(Burseraceae)
Origin VerifiedTraceableSample AvailableBulk AvailableSeasonalWild Harvested
Hand-sorted Boswellia papyrifera tears — sharper and more turpenic than the Somali species.
Boswellia papyrifera resin, hand-sorted into grades by tear size and colour. This is the species behind most Ethiopian frankincense in trade, and its profile is markedly brighter, greener and more turpenic than Boswellia carterii.
Supplied as whole tears for direct burning and for distillation feedstock. Grade nomenclature in this category is a commercial sorting convention rather than an analytical standard, so it describes appearance — size, colour, freedom from bark — rather than composition.
B. papyrifera populations face documented pressure from land-use change, fire and harvesting intensity. Regeneration in tapped stands is an active area of concern in the published literature, and it forms part of how we assess supply from this origin.
- Declared origin
- Ethiopia
- Additional origins
- Not recorded
- Harvest season
- Tapping season, dry months
- Harvest year
- 2025
- Traceability
- Recorded to collection region and sorting batch.
Lots
ETH-FRK-2025-004Origin verified
Available- Origin
- Ethiopia
- Harvest
- 2025
- Available
- 37,000 g
- Testing
- Not started
Trace this lot
Harvest / collectionHarvest · 10 May 2025
Raw material collected at declared origin during the 2025 season.
Hand-tapped and sortedProcessing · 11 Jun 2025
Hand-tapped and sorted carried out at origin. Batch identified as ETH-FRK-2025-004.
Intake and identificationIntake · 12 Jul 2025
Batch received, weighed and assigned a lot reference against the supplier declaration.
Origin declaration verifiedDocumentation · 13 Aug 2025
Supplier origin declaration checked against shipping and batch documentation.
Supplier and producer identity is held internally and is not published. Disclosure to a buyer of record is handled case by case.
Sharp, bright and green on the burn, with a pronounced terpenic lift and a clean, dry resinous body. Less sweet and less balsamic than Somali B. carterii.
Resinous95
Terpenic84
Green62
Citrus48
Balsamic38
Woody34
Relative prominence of each descriptor, recorded on evaluation. Indicative only; not an analytical measurement.
- Botanical name
- Boswellia papyrifera
- Botanical family
- Burseraceae
- Common name
- Tigray Olibanum
- Material type
- Resin
- Plant part
- Oleo-gum-resin
- Extraction method
- Hand-tapped and sorted
- Extraction technology
- Manual grading by tear size, colour and cleanliness
- Colour
- Pale yellow to amber
- Appearance
- Irregular tears, 5–25 mm
- INCI name
- Not recorded
- CAS number
- Not recorded
- EINECS
- Not recorded
- HS code
- 1301.90
- CITES status
- Not CITES-listed
- REACH
- Not recorded
- Shelf life
- 60 months
- Storage
- Store cool and dry in sealed containers away from direct light. Resin tears may agglomerate above roughly 25 °C; this affects handling, not composition.
- Allergens
- Not recorded
- Regulatory notes
- Not CITES-listed. Phytosanitary documentation is required for many destinations.
Natural materials vary by harvest, season and lot. Specifications describe the referenced lot and are not a guarantee for future batches.
1 document on file · 2 available on request
- COACertificate of AnalysisNot currently available
- OriginCertificate of OriginDocumentation available upon request
- PhytoPhytosanitary Certificate
Issued per shipment against the destination country's import requirements.
Documentation available upon request - SDSSafety Data SheetDocumentation available upon request
Documentation is issued per lot where it exists. Where a document is listed as available on request, it has not yet been published to this catalogue. Sign in to access documents released to account holders.
Boswellia papyrifera regeneration is a documented conservation concern. We record harvesting-interval and stand-management information where the supplier provides it, and mark it as not recorded where they do not. We make no certification claim for this material.
Packaging options
- 500 g
- 1 kg
- 5 kg
- 25 kg lined sack
Shipping eligibility is subject to destination-country regulations. Transit estimates are shown only where a configured shipping lane provides them.
Reference photographs
Mashoodmj, CC BY 4.0
Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0
Adam, Jacques Georges. Dessinateur, Public domain
Akkbula, CC BY-SA 4.0
Judgefloro, CC0
ShubhodeepRoy24, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mauro Raffaelli, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sjschen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mauro Raffaelli, CC BY-SA 3.0
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain
The plant, raw material, harvest and origin landscape, from public collections. Reference imagery — not this specific lot.
