Consanguine

Dam al-akhawain (دم الأخوين). The blood of the two brothers. The name the resin has carried in Arabic for over a thousand years. Consanguine is the Latin for what the name says. Of the same blood. The Arabic tradition tells of two brothers of Socotra, Darsa and Samha, who killed each other on the land. The first tree grew where the blood fell. When its trunk is cut, it bleeds red. Dracaena cinnabari grows only on Socotra. The two smaller islands nearest to it are called al-Akhawain, the brothers, after the two who died. The land and the material carry the same name. The composition holds the tree whole. The milky texture of the fresh resin. The red it dries to. The smoke of its burning. The florals of the land around it. The mythology the resin carries. The perfume carries what the name carries.