Elemi is a resin from a Philippine tree, and the oil smells of lemon peel and pepper over a balsamic base. Just over half of it is limonene, with elemol adding the woody weight underneath. Perfumers call it the poor man's frankincense, which undersells it. Oil from a closely related African Canarium species helped skin cells close wounds and calmed their response to ultraviolet damage.^[1] That is a different species in a dish, so treat it as a lead rather than a finding about this oil.