Corymbia gummifera - common name red bloodwood - endemic to Eastern Austalia
This fragrance was created from sap collected from the ground surrounding Corymbia gummifera or red bloodwood trees in my neighbourhood. The Corymbia gummifera tree at Samford Ecological Research Facilty garnered the attention of many smellwalkers during my time onsite and was thus worthy of archiving.
The sap itself has an warm, earthy, sweet, sticky, woody, vanilla-like scent which I replicated in the fragrance.
Completed Corymbia gummifera Red Bloodwood Fragrance (2022) digitally painted background.
Bleeding Corymbia gummifera tree (2022) digital image, documentation, Mianjin
Pollaroid of red bloodwood at SERF, captured and annotated by research participant Liesel Zink (2022)
Bleeding Corymbia gummifera tree (2022) digital image, documentation, Mianjin
Bleeding Corymbia gummifera tree (2022) digital image, documentation, Mianjin
Bleeding Corymbia gummifera tree (2022) digital image, documentation, Mianjin
Fallen sap of a Corymbia gummifera tree (2022) digital image, documentation, Mianjin
The sap can also be used as pigment - a technique mastered by artists such as Katie Harris Mcleod in her Sap Works