Palo Santo sticks

Our last shipment of Palo Santo sticks was a bit blah. We had to remove it it from the shop.
We found a new supplier and the intense fragrance and high quality of this material blow me away. Beautiful, heavy, thick and fragrant sticks. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Note that this material is full of essential oils and cut into larger more substantial pieces than earlier shipments.

To use-Palo Santo Sticks
Light the tip of the stick.
When it has a good flame and you can see the red of an ember, blow out the flame and it will emit sweet incense smoke for a few minutes.
It will go out independently within a minute or so and can be relit in this manner multiple times.

Leave Palo Santo Sticks in your drawer to scent your clothes for months.

Palo Santo sticks can be shaved or ground to make an excellent material for incense blends for sticks, trailing incense, cones and pastilles.

This is the very best description I know of Palo Santo and I admire the author greatly. If you have an opportunity to take one of his online incense courses you will come out enlightened and enriched in ways you can not now imagine.

 The description below is borrowed from the Listening To Incense Program/Northwest School of aromatic medicine.
For the full article and to learn more about courses, visit https://aromaticmedicineschool.com/palo-santo-holy-wood/

Palo Santo (Holy Wood) has been used throughout Central America and many northern territories of South America for thousands of years for purification and cleansing of the physical, energetic, and spiritual realms. Its uses are as numerous as the tribes and cultures that call on this sacred tree’s healing and spiritual powers. Its warm, delicately sweet and woodsy aroma that fills people with a sense of peace and tranquility, its powerful presence in ceremonies and spiritual practices, and its vast physical healing powers have sparked much interest in this sacred incense material around the world, giving rise to the popularity of this wise ancient tree.

Palo Santo creates a pleasant, fresh-smelling smoke with hints of mint and citrus. It’s uplifting scent raises vibrations in preparation for meditation and ceremony and allows for a deepening of spiritual connections. When people get a first whiff of Palo Santo smoke, they tend to sit up straighter, their eyes widening. The aroma of this tree seems to often give people a feeling of something ancient, sacred, just beyond their grasp. I tend to describe the feeling it generates within as an old ceremonial energy.

In a spiritual sense, Palo Santo is a strong ally to many medicine people, shamans, and healers. It is used to cleanse homes of negative spirits and energies, attract good fortune, communicate with the spirit world, in smudging rituals, as an aid in meditation, clearing the mind and sharpening awareness, and much more. Native cultures say that the spirits of Palo Santo trees materialize themselves in the oil and are responsible for its potency and healing qualities.

 

Materials: Palo Santo Wood, Bursera Graveolens.