A gift from Irene of Rauchfahne, who as well as running her incense blog, also makes her own incense. SamsaSpoon is the name she uses on a Reddit incense forum, and on her emails.
Burgundy Pitch is the resin of the Spruce tree, which has been cleaned to remove off-notes. Irene explains it here. It looks like toffee or butterscotch, and because I now have that association in my head, when I break a piece off and sniff it, it has a butterscotch toffee aroma mingled with the sweet, fresh notes of spruce, combined with some honey polish and a faint awareness of soap. It is a very attractive, slightly resinous, oily, natural scent. Very clean and uplifting.
On the lowest heat settings on both my electric burner and my tealight burner, the resin bubbled and popped and gave off luscious wafts of spruce. Good stuff, like peat whiskey - earthy and resinous and bright. Very enjoyable. I'm not a big fan of mono-scents - I like complexity and contrast, and journeys, and stories. But this is a rather engaging scent - quite natural, quite uplifting, and somewhat interesting in itself.
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