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Incense Notes: Lemon citrus, Resins, White Chocolate, Coconut, Woods
“Offrande” is a sparkling and lush healing scent imbued with a sense of place. It’s a Copal-based incense which can be used to cleanse the environment, calm your emotions and increase your spiritual energy. “Offrande” is made with Blanco Copal from a family living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Who, for generations, have harvested in the traditional way, using an agave leaf to catch the copal resin. Each tree is harvested only once every four years. This Copal Blanco is the best quality I’ve ever known. The resin is soft and malleable while a fragrance is sparkling and complex. A perfume in its own right. I’ve combined this gorgeous smelling Copal with sustainably harvested Palo Santo wood, and vanilla beans also originating in Oaxaca, making this a truly bio-regional incense.
Ingredients: Copal Blanco, Mexican Vanilla, Palo Santo, a touch of Mapacho
Heat this incense on an electric incense heater at 180º
Inspiration
Ancient Mesoamericans believed that the smoke from copal incense carried spiritual thoughts and intentions to their gods and ancestors. Copal was burned for the gods throughout the day in their temples. Sahagun reports in Book 2 of the Florentine Codex that the priests offered incense nine times a day: at sunrise, at breakfast, at noon, in the twilight, when the sun was completely down, at the time of the people’s sunset, when the trumpets of the conch were sounded, at midnight and shortly before dawn. The incense burners most commonly used by the priests were made of baked clay and shaped like a ladle. Hot coals and incense went into the spoon-shaped bowl at the end. The long handle was hollow and filled with pebbles, so it also acted as a rattle as the priest moved about and performed the ritual. The incensing coupled with the rattling created an atmosphere conducive to trance and meditation.
There is a very informative essay in English entitled “Censers and incense of Mexico and Central America”, which you can download free of charge from archive.org. The essay was published in 1912 and is not too objectionable as far as obnoxious ethnocentric language is concerned, but there is a bit of it. Nevertheless, it’s well worth a read and features some superb illustrations. https://archive.org/details/censersincenseof00houg
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