BERBERA
An amber woody incense with the finest gums extracts from Somaliland
Unique Creations
clean & safe
90% natural
With BERBERA, Nissaba honors the Horn of Africa through its sacred resins—incense, myrrh, and opoponax. Named for Somaliland’s windswept port, where desert meets sea, the fragrance echoes the journey of these precious gums—from sun-drenched landscapes to the ateliers of Paris, Grasse, and New York.
Description
An amber woody incense with the finest gum extracts from Somaliland. A resinous, captivating and sophisticated scent. Powerful and long-lasting. It can also be used for layering, as is common in the Middle East. A very 'niche' fragrance for lovers of subtle scents. This deep, mysterious and intense fragrance uplifts and purifies the soul.
TOP - A superfluid extract of spicy incense meets resinous elemi and a duo of nutmeg and black pepper essences.
HEART - Leathery, powdery incense enhances warm myrrh.
BASE - Pyrogenic incense gums with amber facets enrich a superfluid extract of Somali opoponax.
Incense from Somaliland : The same grade of incense has been used, but extracted in three different ways, blended to offer a continuous, vertical narrative flow, and a long-lasting fragrance: superfluid extract (C02), molecular distillation, and pysogenized extract.
Other gums-resins from Somalia: superfluid extracts of myrrh and opoponax.
Other key ingredients : Elemi essential oil, black pepper essential oil, pink pepper superfluid extract, nutmeg essential oil, Iris extracts, musks, amber woods and ambrox.
Certified organic French wheat alcohol
Total content of natural origin > 90%.
22% concentration
Son of a Grasse perfumer, Fabrice Pellegrin is now recognized as one of the most eminent talents in the global perfume industry.
Fabrice Pellegrin belongs to the category of perfumers who favor natural materials above all else. He draws his inspiration from the heart of nature and avoids the use of synthetic molecules wherever possible. As well as being a passionate creator, Fabrice stands out as a generous teacher, keen to pass on his know-how from generation to generation.
A perfumer since 1999, Fabrice Pellegrin has created iconic fragrances for L'Occitane (Thé Vert, Néroli, L'Eau de l'Occitane, Thé Blanc), Diptyque (Do Son, Eau de Lierre, L'Eau Duelle, L'Eau Papier), as well as Womanity and Tonka for Esteban.
Coralie Spicher is a passionate and curious perfumer born in Geneva, Switzerland.
Coralie's inspiration comes from everyday life - people, places, architecture, art, food, ceremonies and experiences. Her patience, perseverance and hard work, combined with her curiosity and sensitivity, enable her to capture authentic emotions in her olfactory creations. Coralie has been a part of the olfactory creations of several brands including Altaia, Boitown, L'Occitane en Provence (Rose Pêche de Vigne, Rose Poire) and O Boticàrio.
No additives (no colors, UV filters, stabilizers).
The color of the fragrance comes from natural ingredients and may evolve over time.
Best consumed 36 months after opening.
Our fragrances are free from controversial substances : parabens, phthalates, added BHT and BHA, polycyclic musks, nitromusks, formaldehydes, nitrates, toluene, lyrial, lilial.
INCI list : molecules present in ingredients with a potential for allergens: LIMONENE, LINALOOL, HYDROXYCITRONELLAL, COUMARIN, CITRAL, GERANIOL
Vegan. Not tested on animals.
Alcohol vol : 74.7%
Key ingredients from the Origin
Olibanum
Harvested in the arid, rocky regions of northern Somalia, particularly in the Puntland area, Somali incense is a natural resin tapped from the Boswellia carterii tree. Incense from Somalia is less spicy than the incense from Oman (from Boswellia sacra tree)
Myrrh
Sourced from the wild-growing Commiphora myrrha trees in the plains of Somaliland, an historic hub for the trade of myrrh, dating back to ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Arabian civilizations.
Opoponax
Somaliland is one of the world’s premier sources of opoponax, also known as sweet myrrh. Gums are harvested from the Commiphora guidottii tree—a close botanical cousin to myrrh.
'Berbera is an inspiration to travel and mystery. I hope that when you smell this fragrance you'll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it'. Fabrice Pellegrin.
