Satyamani Natural Gum Gomboge Resin Incense

Satyamani Natural Gum Gomboge Resin Incense is comes in the beautiful golden yellow colour. The transparent colour comes from the sap of the Garcinia tree. As the sap is poisonous and has a poor light fastness, the original Gamboge has been replaced with harmless pigments that do not fade under the influence of light. The name Gamboge is derived from the Garcinia tree, which is aboriginal to South-East Asia. When the trees are ten years old and some fifteen metres high, the yellow milky sap is tapped from the wood. This naturally extracted Gamboge consists of one-quarter water-soluble gum and three-quarters insoluble resin. It is the resin that gives it its colour. It contains essential oils and is more used for therapeutic purposes and incense. You can literally recreate ancient aromatic history in your own home. The smoky fragrance produced by burning resin on charcoal disks is quite unique and amazingly evocative.