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Commodity illustration: Gum benjamin

Category:Perfumes and remedies

Gum benjamin from Madagascar

Standard price
900 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
400 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,000 pieces of eight

Export regions

Gum benjamin, also known as benzoin, is a fragrant resin, shipped in small droplets known as tears or in larger reddish-brown and amber lumps. Some pieces are mottled with white, like almonds set in a paste.

Perfumers use it in scented pastilles and mixtures for burning, and apothecaries buy it for their preparations. Warming a piece releases its sweet scent. The resin seeps from cuts in a tree's bark and hardens before it is collected. Siam and Sumatra are among the places supplying this trade.

Sources and adaptations

Pavillon Noir official references:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 529.

Ludic RPG adaptations:

  • Commodity description.
  • Illustration (AI-assisted).

An independent, unofficial fan-made resource, created by Ludic RPG and adapted from the role-playing game Pavillon Noir.