Buddha wood oil & incenses

Price (incense stick): US$11.89/kg (F.O.B. Hanoi)

Weight & size (average) of incense stick: Diameter: 4.48mm, Length (total): 360mm, Length (powdered): 241mm, Weight: 2.80g

Ingredients:11%Budda wood powder, 78% Vietnam traditional healthy aromaticpowdersselected on The Five Elements basis (see attached file), 11%  binder (Litsea glutinosa Lour. C.B.Rob.  and Pouzolzia sanguiena Bl. Merr.).

Incense form: incense stick, incense coil.

INCENSES

DESCRIPTION OF PLANT: It is a small tree, rarely attaining a larger size than 25 or 30 feet, with a diameter of 12 inches at the butt. Anevergreen and often resinous shrub to small tree ( 3-8 meters) inheight. Grows in may areas predominantly found on Western slopes andplains of New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia. Exhibitsdark, rough bark, with hairless leaves that are bright green andaromatic. The scented wood is burnt for its pleasant aroma.

GENERALINFORMATION: Buddha Wood occurs in the arid areas of New South Wales,Queensland and South Australia. The tree, very common in WesternQueensland, is often confused with Santalum lanceolatum known asAustralian sandalwood. The logs, after reduction to shavings, yieldfrom 2-3% of a dark coloured viscous oil with a pleasant andcharacteristic odour. The oil, though dark in colour and neither asubstitute nor an alternative for true sandalwood oil (Santalum albumL.), possesses marked blending and fixative qualities. Its maincomponents are three closely related sesquiterpene ketones -eremophilone; 2-hydroxyeremophilone; 2-hydroxy-2-dihydroeremophilone -none of which have ever before been discovered in nature. Chemciallyrelated to Agar Wood.

HISTORY INFORMATION: Named after Sir Thomas Mitchell, who led the discovery expedition into Australia.

INDIGENOUS COUNTRY: Australia

GENUS NAME: Eremophila R. Br. (Synonyms: Pholidia R. Br., Pholidiopsis F. Muell., Stenochilus R. Br.)

FAMILY NAME: Scrophulariaceae (also sometimes placed in: Myoporaceae)

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eremophila mitchellii Bentham (species name)

COMMON NAME: Buddha Wood, Buddah, Budtha, False or Bastard Sandalwood Tree, Australian Desert Rosewood

BUDDHA WOOD

Buddha wood oil & incenses