Our Story

Direct From Six Sources

We don't buy from commodity brokers or anonymous middlemen. Every batch of our frankincense traces back to specific harvesting cooperatives across the six regions where genuine Boswellia grows wild:

• Dhofar, Oman — Boswellia sacra Hojari, the sacred frankincense
• Cal Madow, Somalia — Boswellia carterii Royal Hojari, the classic church frankincense
• Maydi region, northern Somalia — Boswellia frereana, the rare lemon-pine frankincense
• Rajasthan, India — Boswellia serrata, the well-studied everyday variety
• East African drylands — Boswellia neglecta, wild-harvested "black frankincense"
• Ogaden region, Ethiopia/Somalia — Boswellia rivae, the rare herbaceous variety

Our sourcing partners are multigenerational harvesters who use traditional tapping methods passed down for centuries. We visit these sites, know the families, and pay fair-trade premiums that sustain both the communities and the trees they steward.

This isn't marketing language. It's the reason our resin grades, aroma profiles, and chemical compositions are consistent from batch to batch — something anonymous supply chains simply cannot guarantee.

Extraction Standards That Matter

How frankincense oil is extracted determines what ends up in the bottle. We use low-pressure steam distillation at controlled temperatures to preserve the full spectrum of therapeutic compounds — particularly the boswellic acid precursors, incensole acetate, and species-specific terpenes that distinguish each variety.

We don't use solvent extraction, and we never blend distillation fractions from different species. When a label says Boswellia sacra, B. carterii, B. frereana, B. serrata, B. neglecta, or B. rivae steam-distilled essential oil, that's exactly what it is — single-species, single-method, single-origin. No mystery blends.

Every bottle carries the distillation date, not just a vague "best by" window. Essential oil quality degrades over time, and you deserve to know how fresh your oil actually is.