True Myrrh (Commiphora Myrrha) Yemen Gold Obsidian and the reason an evenly

and the reason an evenly perfect blue is usually a dyed one

On charcoal: opens lemony and bright with a piney note

the veils and inclusions inside each stone are the record of that growth

the sage takes over with its familiar camphor-eucalyptol register

White Copal is the incense an entire continent burned for thousands of years before contact with the rest of the world

True Myrrh (Commiphora Myrrha) Yemen Gold Obsidian and the reason an evenlyMyrrh is a grounding scent without much joy in it, but a quiet kind of presence the resin people have reached for at gatherings where words feel insufficient. Burned alongside frankincense across Arabian, Mediterranean, and Christian traditions. The companion to frankincense for as long as anyone has burned either. Where frankincense lifts a room, myrrh deepens it. The two together carry an older register slower, balsamic, dense, asking the room to