Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Mountain Blue Sage in a smokier register

in a smokier register

myrrh deepens it

so each bead is a cross-section of its own growth - light and dark greens in curved eyes

resinous scent that wakes at the warmth of the wrist

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Mountain Blue Sage in a smokier registerSmoky 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