Selenite Crystal Pyramid Ananta Sandalwood Incense Stick The oil matures with age

The oil matures with age when stored cool and dark - a bottle opened today reads richer in five years than it does this week

the colour running lilac to deep purple

The reason is partly chemistry - α-pinene smoke is strongly antibacterial - and partly availability: nearly every cold or dry region of the northern hemisphere has its local Juniperus

and jasmine in classical compositions

the aromatic register left entirely to the resin placed on top

Selenite Crystal Pyramid Ananta Sandalwood Incense Stick The oil matures with ageSelenite a translucent white cut to four faces, a satin sheen running up each side toward the point, the soft gypsum named for the moon. Softer than almost any stone cut. From Morocco, a pyramid. It is gypsum hydrated calcium sulfate, Mohs 2, soft enough to mark with a fingernail. The satin sheen is chatoyancy, light running along the stones fine fibres, a band that travels as the light moves, like sheen on satin. Two things follow from its softness