Copal Organic Perfume Girl Cologne

With the temple of the wind god at his back, Chichan turned his eyes to the east, where the sun was now rising, and murmured 'Ki'in' over the ocean. A good day for an initiation. The resins of the sacred Copalquahuitl, tied into three small bundles, pressed from the sacred tree of life, had been given to him by the earth goddess. Proudly, Chichan bit his lips. It already smelled a bit like rubber and sun-baked pine needles. This summer was warm in Yucatán.
Chichan rubbed wood shavings in his hands, driving the tips into cedar bark, which was brittle, mulchy, and dry, soon smoking tiny clouds. The little Indian closed his eyes. Beneath the rubber, the pine needles, the veils over the gnarled cedars, amber shimmered in all colors, bright stars of the Hesperides, bitter spicy drops of incense, dark pearls of warm balm in the inner earthy ground. The gods were indeed present.
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Dawn Stewart from Huntington Beach in California creates the scents for her label 'Organic Perfume Girl' from handmade tinctures of plants, flowers, and herbs, which she combines with high-quality essential oils, resins, and/or concretes, all wild-harvested or organically grown. All packaging in which she ships her fragrances are hand-stickered recycled materials, such as old matchboxes for the testers.
"Copal" combines various tree resins used to obtain copal with a smoky cedarwood tincture to replicate the scent of the copal tree, the sacred tree of the Maya, whose resin was burned in ceremonies and symbolizes the presence of the divine. The fragrance begins with the characteristic rubbery note typical of this type of incense, along with dark resins reminiscent of dried conifer needles, underlaid by brittle, mulchy, and slightly smoky cedar bark. Over time, different facets of the resins emerge, sometimes citrusy fresh, sometimes spicy or darkly balsamic, adding more and more depth to the scent as the woody notes become earthier. A spiritual and meditative, very primal incense fragrance with moderate to skin-close projection lasting about six hours.