Botanical Set — Stillness

White sage · Salvia apiana · Mexico. Burned across many cultures for thousands of years to purify a space, an object, or a person - a clean slate before something new. Its sharp, camphor-like smoke rises from the oils in the leaf.

Juniper · Juniperus deppeana · Mexico. The smoke of high places - burned to purify the air across the highlands of Mexico and far beyond, among the most widespread aromatic woods in human use. Rich in aromatic terpenes.

Palo santo · Bursera graveolens · Peru. Fallen wood from the dry forests of Peru, left to age until the resin forms. Burned across South America to brighten a space and lift the air once it is cleared. Warm and sweet, rich in limonene.

Questions, answered

Are these the true species?
Yes - each botanical is named to species and origin: Salvia apiana and Juniperus deppeana from Mexico, Bursera graveolens from Peru.

What does juniper smoke smell like?
Resinous and clean - the terpenes that scent a juniper forest, concentrated. It sits between the sharpness of the sage and the sweetness of the wood.

Is the palo santo cut from living trees?
No. It is fallen wood, gathered and left to age until the aromatic resin forms - the aging is what makes the wood worth burning.

How long does the set last?
Each piece relights and reuses; with light use, each lasts several sessions. Store cool and dry between them.

1. Light the tip and let it flame, then blow it out and let it smoulder.
2. Move the smoke through the room.
3. Rest it in a fireproof dish; press the lit end to the dish to put it out.
4. Relight and reuse - with light use, each piece lasts several sessions.

Store cool and dry, away from heat and moisture. Always rest lit botanicals in a fireproof dish; press the lit end to the dish to extinguish.

• Set: Stillness · three botanicals
• Contents: White sage · juniper · palo santo
• Species: Salvia apiana · Juniperus deppeana · Bursera graveolens
• Origins: Mexico · Mexico · Peru
• Character: Sharp camphor · resinous terpenes · warm, rich in limonene
• Use: Burned directly · no charcoal needed
• Reuse: Relights · several sessions per piece with light use
• Storage: Cool and dry · away from heat and moisture

Juniper may be the most widely burned aromatic wood in human history - its smoke rose across the highlands of Mexico and far beyond, wherever the tree's hardiness carried it to high, cold, dry ground. Where other aromatics belong to one region, juniper belongs to altitude itself.

The set holds three registers of quiet: the leaf the peoples of Mexico burned first, the mountain wood burned to purify the air, and the aged Peruvian wood burned to lift it after. Each is named here for what it was - what stillness comes to mean in the room asks nothing further of any of them.