Dragon Blood Resins

The premium and hard to come by tears of Socotra Dragon's Blood resin harvested from the Dracaena Cinnabari tree at Socotra Island, Yemen .
The tears are beautiful, clean with no bark and they break to expose a glass-like center of the deepest red colour.Dragon's Blood Socotra usually comes in lumps of aggregated resin with little form. It is rare to find it in its tear-form. It will not last long in the shop. Get it while it lasts. 


There are approximately 20 different trees around the world that supply a red resin called Dragons Blood. Some grow in Asia and others South America, but, it is thought that the Dragons Blood from the Dracaena cinnabari tree on the island of Socotra is the original resin traded for thousands of years to the West along with Frankincense and Myrrh through the "Incense Route". For this reason, it is considered to be the material referred to in ancient Greek and Medieval texts, formularies and Pharmacopoeias through the ages. This has lent this resin the nickname "Medieval" Dragons Blood.