{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "frankincense-resin",
 "type": "Material",
 "version": 3,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 2,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GC-15",
  "GC-16"
 ],
 "notes": "The essential oil (steam distillation) and the CO₂ extract the page names are not recorded: no filed source describes them in its own text.",
 "name": {
  "value": "frankincense (the oleo-gum resin of Boswellia; olibanum)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-15",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:16",
  "quote": "The major product of Boswellia species, a dried oleo-gum resin exuded from wounded stem surfaces, has been used as frankincense since ancient times3,4.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "kind": {
  "value": "natural",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "a tree resin, used as it is gathered",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "botanical": {
  "value": "boswellia-sacra",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-15",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:22",
  "quote": "In the Dhofar region, frankincense is harvested by tapping the trunks and branches of B. sacra trees, as for B. papyrifera in Ethiopia4.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "part": {
  "value": "the dried oleo-gum resin exuded from the wounded stems",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-15",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:16",
  "quote": "The major product of Boswellia species, a dried oleo-gum resin exuded from wounded stem surfaces, has been used as frankincense since ancient times3,4.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "extraction": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "not extracted: the material is the resin as gathered; it is made by the Process record `tapping` (Lane 11 had filed tapping as an Extraction; schema v2, Lane 14)"
 },
 "grade": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no grade on record; the page’s “Hojari” has no filed source"
 },
 "descriptors": {
  "value": [
   "lemony",
   "piney",
   "balsamic"
  ],
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": "radlerboutique.html:9550",
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "the house essay’s words; no descriptor source is filed"
 },
 "constituents": [
  {
   "molecule": "incensole-acetate",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "GC-16",
    "where": "docs/sources/GC-16-miran-2022-boswellia-sacra.md:19",
    "quote": "Four new cembrane-type diterpenoids, including boscartins (16–19), together with five known compounds (1S, 3 R, 11S, 12 R, 7E)-1,12-epoxy-4-methylenecembr-7-ene-3,11-diol (20), isoincensole oxide (21), incensole oxide (22), incensole acetate (23), and incensole oxide acetate (24) were isolated from B. sacra gum resin by Wang et al.",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "isolated from B. sacra gum resin (cited by GC-16 to Wang et al.); GC-17 calls it “a Boswellia resin constituent” (docs/sources/GC-17-moussaieff-2008-incensole-acetate.md:16)"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no multi-sample measured figure with medium and method is filed"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no filed analysis ranks it"
   }
  }
 ],
 "regulation": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Regulation record yet"
 },
 "price_band": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "nothing on the site is for sale (DECISIONS_LOG P2-2)"
 },
 "media": [
  "spec-frankincense",
  "or-6-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-frankincense",
  "card": "/materials#naturals",
  "molecule": "/molecule/incensole-acetate"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Frankincense is the dried oleo-gum resin that exudes from the wounded stems of Boswellia, gathered by tapping.",
  "body": [
   "Incensole acetate has been isolated from Boswellia sacra resin. The house calls the scent lemony, piney and balsamic: our reading, not a source’s."
  ]
 },
 "processes": [
  "tapping"
 ],
 "descriptor_links": [
  {
   "as_used": "lemony",
   "descriptor": "lemony"
  },
  {
   "as_used": "piney",
   "descriptor": "piney"
  },
  {
   "as_used": "balsamic",
   "descriptor": "balsamic"
  }
 ]
}