100% pure and natural essential oil obtained by distillation (steam distillation) of the branches of Cistus ladaniferus L. The Cistus is a plant that mainly grows on the poor lands of the Mediterranean basin. It is a shrub with beautiful, highly fragrant flowers whose leaves secrete a sap that the Greeks called ladanum (hence its name, ladaniferous cistus). They used it in pharmacy but also in perfumery as a powerful and sacred scent like incense, cedar, myrrh, or benzoin. Nowadays, Cistus is widely used in perfumes of the chypre or amber families.