In terms of aromapharmacology, Frankincense possesses four main categories of scent: spicy, sweet and woody. This resin is energetically polarized between the spicy, which has a rising and dispersing function in the body, and the sweet, woody and green, which have sinking and stabilizing functions. The spicy causes Frankincense's uplifting and clarifying effect that both tonifies energy and disperses stagnant energy (physical, emotional and mental). This accounts for the oil's use in fatigue, grief, depression, poor mental focus, and so on. Grief and despondency, associated as it is with lung functions, is especially addressed here, as well as issues of attachment and personal boundaries.

The sweet, woody notes, in contrast, together exert a calming, grounding and balancing effect that reduces excessive energy and regulates it at the same time. This determines Frankincense's use for tension and over stimulation with reactivity, anxiety, confusion or mental scatteredness, possibly with issues of insecurity. On a physical level, this accounts for the oil's usefulness in asthmatic conditions, and would be especially useful for the asthmatic individual that presents anxiety, e.g. in between asthma attacks. In short, from the energetic diagnostic perspective, Frankincense overall addresses conditions that are tense, weak and damp/congestive.

By promoting both an upward and downward movement of energy, this is an oil that creates a connection between the lower and upper body parts, and thereby generating a dynamic balance between them. Energetically, we can say that Frankincense connects the lowest chakra (the first) with the middle and upper chakras (the fourth and seventh). It thereby generally helps integrate the personality by creating connections between different aspects of the individual self. Moreover, it can also promote a smoother relationship between the individual and the environment, and help us maintain a continued positive feeling of connection to others, despite past hurts and wrongs, and despite (or because of) a continued sense of innate human vulnerability.

Frankincense's integrating and connecting functions result in a net balancing effect that is inherently reinforced by Frankincense's sweet notes. In particular, it is responsible for the focused state of mental calm that it induces-the Frankincense state of contemplation itself that Western religions have engaged in their many ceremonies for thousands of years. This state can be a doorway to insight and creativity, leading to transcendent liberation from the physical body. Like Sandalwood oil, Frankincense helps us focus on the present moment, in its richness and endless depth. Unlike Sandalwood, however, Frankincense keeps the process active and urges us to seek that ever-changing, dynamic state of integrated balance. In its tendency to seek balance, it will help us spotlight those areas in need of dialog and integration. For this reason, Frankincense can also assist us in taking action, leading to immanent physical manifestation of our insights and creativity. This was the essence of the sacred marriage between the Babylonian kings and the Earth Goddess on the ziggurat: the joining of heaven and earth for material abundance.

Ultimately, Frankincense is a key essential oil for helping us cross the Rainbow Bridge along our path of conscious evolution towards wholeness. With its seven colors, the Rainbow bridge connects heaven and earth, like the seven stoles of the Egyptian goddess Isis, or the winged, perfumed Greek goddess Iris who conveyed the gods' messages to humans. Frankincense can thus help us integrate the two basic life-movements: the upward movement of liberation through transcendence with the downward movement of manifestation through immanence. In so doing, it helps us connect the mundane with the sacred, the ego self with the spirit self, and the human with the cosmic, making the polarities whole, and keeping the Rainbow Bridge alive.