Material: HalmaddiGoloka
Nag Champa
SweetBalsamic
Balsamic Entry 15 of 34
Halmaddi
Soft, balsamic resin of Ailanthus triphysa, part of the traditional nag champa formula. India banned extraction by the 1990s because crude tapping killed trees, so it is now scarcer in incense.
- Scent family
- Balsamic
- Listed in Dupa Incense
- 2 incense
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Incense with this material
Found in these traditions
Same scent family
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Photo credits (7)
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- Ailanthus triphysa, the tree that yields halmaddi. Forestowlet, CC0
- The leaves of Ailanthus triphysa. Forestowlet, CC0
- Incense sticks burning beside brass pots in India. A general illustration. 4174332, CC0
- Kemenyan, or benzoin resin (Styrax benzoin). Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Dragon's blood trees on Socotra, a source of the red resin. Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Cistus ladanifer, the Mediterranean shrub that yields labdanum. Haggeswood, CC BY 4.0
- Liquidambar orientalis, the source of Anatolian storax, in Turkey. Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0