Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) sodalite and small things

and small things

Rainbow moonstone - clear

Worn for that sheen across India and Sri Lanka for centuries

and bergamot

Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) sodalite and small thingsBlack Copal from Peru is the rainforest cousin of Mexican copal a different genus, Protium copal, with a deeper and slower character than the Bursera copals of the north. Andean and Amazonian cultures have burned it independently of Mesoamerica for centuries. On charcoal the piece softens slowly, releasing earthy resin and sweet pine before deepening into amber and dry wood. Slower than White Copal, less linear than Hojari the kind of session that