First Flame
4.9 · 58 ratingsLight your first frankincense.
Wild Boswellia sacra from the Dhofar mountains, air-cured into pale gold tears. Bright Hojari to begin, honeyed Amber beside it. Nothing is ground, cut or perfumed.
Lemon and pine as it catches, then balsamic earth, a subtle spice, and amber as it fades.
Burning the Hojari Blend is wonderful. We are slowly learning how to use it, and it is calming and brilliant. It is like a ritual you look forward to: my daughter goes to bed, and I wait until I can light the charcoal and lay the resin on it.
When I opened the package and touched the resin, I could not resist. Such a freshness of the tree.Beata B. · Legionowo
The incense is wonderful, and even better on the mica plates.Adrian G. · Gdynia
Everything in the First Flame set is just as it should be, and I'm really enjoying it.Luiza G. · Ciechanów
I've never burned resin. Will I get this wrong?
Probably once. Almost everyone does, and it is nearly always the same thing: too much resin at once, which only means more smoke than you wanted. Light the coal at its edge and wait until it greys over. Then one tear, and sit down. The card in the box says it in four lines if you forget.
Is it too strong for a small flat?
Not if you use the mica. Laid over the coal it warms the resin instead of burning it, so you get the scent with almost no smoke. One tear is genuinely all a small room needs. It holds for an hour or two, then it lets go.
What if I simply don't like the smell?
Then it is not for you, and that is a real answer. Write to me within thirty days, send back what you have not used, and I refund it. You do not have to explain yourself. I would rather you had one honest evening with it than a box you feel you ought to keep.
Where does it ship from?
From Olsztyn in Poland, and it leaves the next working day. Poland and Germany in one or two days, the rest of the EU in two to four, the UK in four to seven. Checkout shows the delivery cost before you pay. Outside the EU, any import charges are collected by the courier on delivery.
Is Boswellia sacra being over-harvested?
In places, yes. Overtapped by some, ignored by most. A tree cut too often stops giving good resin, and in the end stops giving any. We buy straight from the families who tap the trees in Dhofar, with nobody in between, and every lot carries its number, so a box can be traced back to where it came from. I cannot show you a certificate for that. I can tell you I have stood under those trees.
Everything the first fire needs.
Hojari Blend
30 g · £15
White tears lift a room, black settles it. Sorted by hand, never ground. Harvest 2023.
Amber Frankincense
30 g · £24
Honeyed stillness. Sweeter and slower, for the evenings the bright one is too much. Harvest 2026.
The card in the box Keep it beside you the first time: coal, mica, one tear, then sit down. Included.
The two resins alone are £39.
The price also includes the burner, tongs, mica, charcoal and guide.
ships the next working day from Olsztyn · thirty days to change your mind
The ritual
Simpler than it looks.
Four short films, no sound, looping where they sit. Light the coal, set it down, lay the mica on. Then the part that is not a step.
2 minutesLight the coal
Hold it in the tongs, touch it to a flame. It catches and sparks across in seconds.
Ready when it greys over
3 minutesSet it in the burner
Lower it in and wait. Two or three minutes, until the sparking stops and a pale ash forms.
No smoke yet, this is the pause
1 minuteLay the mica on
Then one tear on the plate, whichever of the two the evening asks for. The resin melts instead of burning. Barely any smoke, and no bitter edge.
It melts, it does not burn
30 minutesSit down
It holds the room for about half an hour. That part is not a step, it is the reason. Breathe, and give yourself to whatever draws you closer to yourself. This scent has been the background to moments like that for as long as there have been people. Now it is inviting you.
Nothing left to do
Dhofar, Oman · among the Boswellia sacra
I grew up in the smoke, before I knew what it was.
In Oman, when a baby is born, they fill the room with frankincense. I was born in Salalah, wrapped in that smoke, and for years I did not realise what I had been given.
A decade later I came home, and the stillness did not come with me. Same practice, same intention, and the walls would not hold it. What held it was the smoke I was born into and had never once looked at.
I didn't start Sacrasoul. I returned to it.
Now I sort this resin by hand with the harvesters in Dhofar, and this is the box I would put in the hands of anyone starting where I started.
A few things you might be wondering.
How long does it last?
Twenty discs of coal in the box, and resin enough to outlast them several times over. The coal runs out first. How long that lasts is yours to set — we would rather count what is in the box than guess at your evenings.
Is it safe around children and animals?
The coal stays lit for about half an hour and the burner gets hot, so it wants a heatproof surface and a place children and animals cannot reach. Never leave it burning in an empty room, and open a window a little while it does.
What does it actually smell like?
Nothing like heavy church incense. Bright and clean — a little citrus from the Hojari, a quiet sweetness from the Amber. Lemon and pine as it catches, balsamic earth as it settles.
Is this a good gift?
It arrives complete and ready to light. The card inside teaches the first burn, so there is nothing to explain and nothing else to buy.
What happens when it runs out?
Only the resin and the coal run out. The burner, the tongs and the mica stay with you for good. Charcoal is £5 a roll when you need more, and less by the pack.
What people write back.
Most simply leave the stars. Here is what some of them took the time to write.
Burning the Hojari Blend is wonderful. We are slowly learning how to use it, and it is calming and brilliant. It is like a ritual you look forward to: my daughter goes to bed, and I wait until I can light the charcoal and lay the resin on it.
I recommend Sacrasoul's frankincense. It is genuine. Before the war my uncle visited Oman and brought me a kilogram of Boswellia sacra. Sacrasoul's is exactly the same, and I burn it every day.
I am so happy I found your resins and oils. When I opened the package and touched the resin, I could not resist. Such a freshness of the tree. Everything is top-shelf, incomparable to anything else.
The incense is wonderful, and even better on the mica plates. I had already fallen in love and cannot imagine a day without it now.
The smoke disappears, and the scent remains for many days.
Everything in the First Flame set is just as it should be, and I'm really enjoying it.
I light it once my daughter is asleep and the flat finally goes quiet. The smoke moves through the room and something in me settles. I didn't know how much I needed that until I had it.
I used to keep a drawer full of candles and sprays. Since this arrived I have given most of them away. After a long day I light one piece of the resin and sit a while before I start supper. The whole flat smells warm, not sweet.
I teach small evening classes in a rented room that never quite feels like mine. I started burning a little before people arrive, and by the time they walk in the room is softer somehow. A few have asked me what it is. My old cone incense never did that, it only smelled of smoke.
I've burned frankincense for years, and most of what you find is tired or cut with something. This is the real thing, clean and alive. You can tell it came from an actual tree in Oman.
The whole thing is beautiful, the burner, the little bags, the quiet of it. Lighting the coal in the evening has become the part of the day I look forward to most.
It takes a little practice to get the coal right, but once you do, the scent fills the whole flat and stays for hours. Nothing from a shop ever came close.
Smelled it at a friend's flat and ordered the same evening. Still learning to keep the coal going, but the frankincense itself is the real thing. My kitchen has never smelled like this.
The moment the smoke rose I was a little girl at Mass again, that same scent. My husband laughed at me standing over the burner with my eyes closed. I do it every Sunday now before the family comes.
Reviews from verified customers, translated where needed.
There is one box, and it lights tonight.
Two resins, the burner, the tongs, the mica and two rolls of coal. Thirty days to change your mind.
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