Galbanum Seeds
This gift package includes 5 grams of Galbanum/Ferula Gummosa seeds. There are between 70-100 seeds in a package. You can choose 1 gift with each order you place in the shop. Simply add your gift to the cart.
Nothing connects us to nature and our materials like growing and tending the plants that give us such wonderful gifts.
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Plants will indeed communicate with us, and there is truth in the concept of plant allies. However, it is up to us to initiate and establish a giving, nurturing, and mutually reciprocal relationship with them first. Germinating and growing a plant and tending to its needs is a wonderful way to strike up an enduring, meaningful, and mutually beneficial relationship.
One of my hopes is that by spreading the seeds of these plants, someone will find ideal growing conditions, learn how to cultivate them commercially and relieve some of the stress on the wild populations that we are overharvesting.
Galbanum-Ferula Gummosa
Galbanum plants yield an aromatic resin on coal that has a unique green/earthy aroma and an essential oil with a rare, complex, dry fragrance with hints of green.
Galbanum resin can be used in incense, tinctured in alcohol for perfume work or infused in oils. You can make your own Galbanum absolute by evaporating the alcohol after tincturing and filtering.
Like many other resins, Galbanum is fixative in perfume and aromatic compositions.
Galbanum is one of the four essential ingredients of the Holy Incense mentioned in Exodus 30:34 and Ecclesiastes 24:14–15. It was one of the ingredients of Ketoret, the Jewish Holy Incense that was burned in the Tabernacle in the 1 st and 2nd Jewish Temple at Jerusalem.
It has been used for medicine since time immemorial and can be found in recipes for ancient Egyptian Khyphi incense.
Its odour profile is amber, sweet, and balsamic, with hints of fresh, light green notes. It is one of a few natural green base notes.
The family name Ferula refers to the sheath-like sleeve, which "Clasps" the hollow stems of most of this family of perennial herbs. A term we still use today, ferrule.
Other members of the Ferula family include Ammoniacum, Asafoetida, Sumbul, (Muskroot), Giant Fennel and Ferula Hermonis, also known as Zallouh or Lebanese Viagra.
Dan