Amber Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Amber (Succinum) is not a plant but fossilized tree resin, most of it Baltic amber some 40 million years old; its parent trees were extinct conifers placed close to the pine family, Pinaceae, or to the umbrella-pine family, Sciadopityaceae. It is found along the southern Baltic coast of Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, washed up after storms or mined from blue-earth clay. Amber is light, warm to the touch, and ranges from clear honey-yellow to cloudy white and dark cognac brown, often trapping ancient insects. It smells of pine when rubbed or heated and has been carved into beads since the Stone Age. We extract the dried amber resin.