Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) Blood Stone The Stupa workshop's Nag Champa

The Stupa workshop's Nag Champa - the Kathmandu Valley interpretation of the classical Indian incense recipe centred on the champaca flower (Magnolia champaca)

daily anchoring

A different scene in every stone

The pink comes from microscopic mineral fibres dispersed through the quartz - which is why it reads translucent and cloudy rather than clear

the resin carries an undertone no other bundle in the range can match

Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) Blood Stone The Stupa workshop's Nag ChampaBlack Copal from Peru is the rainforest cousin of Mexican copal a different genus, Protium copal, with a deeper and slower character than the Bursera copals of the north. Andean and Amazonian cultures have burned it independently of Mesoamerica for centuries. On charcoal the piece softens slowly, releasing earthy resin and sweet pine before deepening into amber and dry wood. Slower than White Copal, less linear than Hojari the kind of session that