Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Green Aventurine Holds a single incense stick

Holds a single incense stick

and incense cones on self-igniting charcoal tablets

Long given as a token between people - named here as observation

More rounded than jasmine

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Green Aventurine Holds a single incense stickSmoky quartz clear crystal darkened to woodsmoke brown by natural radiation deep underground, and the stone Scotland cut from its mountains and called cairngorm. The same mineral as amethyst, in a smokier register. The colour is dissolved through the crystal, not laid on it: natural gamma radiation in the host rock acting over long ages on traces of aluminium in the quartz. So the stone stays translucent, champagne to near black, with clarity still