Frankincense and cedar

Frankincense, also called olibanum, can combine bright citrus and pepper-like lift with warmer amber-resin depth. It gives woods and flowers a drier, aromatic contrast to sugary balsams. The material comes from Boswellia gum-resin; a frankincense note need not smell like burning charcoal, and the name does not specify one oil or extract.

Dry, fine-grained wood with pencil-shaving crispness and a faint resinous edge. Cedarwood can give flowers a clean outline or bring structure beneath juicy fruit. Compared with sandalwood it is usually less creamy. The broad note does not identify a cedar species, origin or extraction method.