Yerba Santa Smudge Stick (Eriodictyon Californicum) incense The reason is partly chemistry

The reason is partly chemistry - α-pinene smoke is strongly antibacterial - and partly availability: nearly every cold or dry region of the northern hemisphere has its local Juniperus

a tough amphibole

One of the four true cedars (genus Cedrus)

Each bundle uses a small fraction of a 30g tin's worth of resin from an endemic Socotran tree

slightly camphorous

Yerba Santa Smudge Stick (Eriodictyon Californicum) incense The reason is partly chemistryThe resinous leafed shrub of California's dry foothills. The leaves are sticky with eriodictyol a flavonoid resin that doesn't fully release until heat softens the surface coating. The bundle smokes slower, denser, and sweeter than sage. On the burn, the opening builds across the first minute rather than arriving at once. A green, herbaceous, slightly sweet note develops and holds for the length of the burn. Longer lasting than sage, less sharp than