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Storax Incense
Apart from storax incense, storax incense sticks and other storax incense products the storax is also used for making storax resin, storax perfumes and storax essential oils. Storax is an aromatic gum resin exuded from the flowering plants of Liquidambar, which belongs to the family of family Altingiaceae. This aromatic gum has a sweet, balsamic fragrance with a tinge of vanilla and is used by perfumers to soften and meliorate the bottom notes of floral composition.
The liquidambar trees are large deciduous trees, which grow to a height of 40 meters with many branches and a thick, purplish gray bark. They have aromatic, palmate leaves set up spirally along the length and bears white flowers arranged in little, round solitary heads. Liquidambar has four species, and each of them are used to make storax incense and other products:
- Liquidambar acalycina - Chang's Sweetgum (central & southern China)
- Liquidambar formosana - Chinese Sweetgum or Formosan Sweetgum (central & southern China, southern Korea, Taiwan, Laos, northern Vietnam)
- Liquidambar orientalis - Oriental Sweetgum or Turkish Sweetgum (southwest Turkey, Greece: Rhodes)
- Liquidambar styraciflua - American Sweetgum (eastern North America from New York to Texas and also eastern Mexico to Honduras)
Turkish sweetgum is considered to yield the best quality of storax, which appears as a small transparent masses of pale-red or yellow color. Storax is mainly obtained from the inner barks of these trees. When the young bark is injured it leads to formation of oil ducts wherein storax is secreted. The outer bark of the tree is removed, and incisions are made up from where the sap oozes out. Alternately, the barks can also be boiled in large vessels to skim off the balsam and pressed to acquire more of this semi liquid opaque substance.
Liquidambar storax is very rare and expensive now a days as this tree has been over harvested for years and is now on the verge of extinction. It has been commercially substituted by Benzoin, which is obtained from a fast growing shrub from the family of Styracaceae, bred mainly in Sumatra and other parts of eastern and southern Asia.
Chemical Constituents
- α-Storesin and β-Storesin
- Vanillin
- Styrol
- Styracin
- Cinnamic acid-ethyl ester
- Cinnamic acid-phenylprophyl ester
- Storesinol
- terpinen-4-ol
- styrocamphene
Uses of Storax:
Storax is used mainly for its aromatic properties, that is why storax incense sticks are widely popular. Apart from storax incense and storax incense sticks the storax is also used in perfumery as a fixative to prepare floral fragrances and in aromatherapy because of its relaxing, strengthening and sensuous attributes. Medicinally the essential oil is considered to have stimulant, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and expectorant properties and is used to treat strokes, convulsions, coma and heart diseases. The resin is often used to mask the bitter taste of alkaloids in pharmaceutical pills. It also has the reputation of being a potent aphrodisiac.
This storax resin combines well with bay leaf, cardamom, carnation, cinnamon, clove, geranium, ginger, helichrysum, jasmine, lavender, lemon, nutmeg, orange, rose, and ylang ylang resulting in variations of fragrances in storax incense. Feel free to contact us or send your query to buy or for more information on storax incense, storax incense sticks, storax incense products, storax resin incense sticks, storax resin, storax essential oils, storax perfumes.
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