Premium White Copal (Bursera Bipinnata) Mexico Bliss Pack Black Tourmaline It is microcrystalline quartz coloured

It is microcrystalline quartz coloured by iron oxide - the same element that rusts orange

The chalcedony sealed around them

Hand-cut in Morocco

settles into warm balsam

sticky-leaved Boraginaceae

Premium White Copal (Bursera Bipinnata) Mexico Bliss Pack Black Tourmaline It is microcrystalline quartz colouredPremium White Copal from Mexico pale, brittle resin tears from Bursera bipinnata, part of the wider Burseraceae family that includes frankincense and myrrh on the Old World side and palo santo on the New World side. The lightest grade in the Mexican copal tradition copal blanco in Spanish. On charcoal: opens lemony and bright with a piney note, then settles into soft balsam with a faint floral edge. Lighter than frankincense; sweeter than myrrh;