Incense

Very low smoke (almost invisible) incense with aloeswood and sandalwood oil, camphor, and calming spices.

Opening camphor alongside grounding fragrant wood and spices.

This ambient incense is the lowest smoke incense that I've come across.  I find that it is never overwhelming, and that it's scent is quite calming while at the same time engaging.  Camphor, aloeswood and sandalwood oil, and other spices are dominant in this incense, that feels very well balanced and clean.

I encourage experimentation with incense and tea pairing, but I think that Sinking Night goes well with any of the dark and aged oolongs.

15g incense ~ 46x 14cm sticks.  Approximate burn time of one stick ~ 30 minutes.

Both sweet and woodsy, this lovely incense is like sipping plum wine in a pine forest.

Plum, sandalwood, aloeswood and sweet spices.

This incense smells lovely and smooth.  It is at the same time both sweet and woodsy.  There are initial notes of plum that give way to an elegant pine needle aroma, all backed by an elegant sandalwood with a touch of aloeswood depth.  

I encourage experimentation with incense and tea pairing, but I think that this incense goes pairs evenly with the 1988 Aged Ginseng Oolong, and is juxtaposed nicely with any of the fragrant oolongs like Osmanthus Jin Xuan.

20g incense ~ 60x 21cm sticks.  Approximate burn time of one stick ~ 30 minutes.

Elegant carved wood incense burner with fireproof fabric for burning the entire incense horizontally.

Beautiful incense burner that burns the entire stick.

Smoke drifts up beautifully through the magnet-attached, coin-patterned lid of this incense burner.  Made with fireproof fabric, this incense burner will burn the entire incense stick horizontally, without leaving tiny unburned nubs, as happens with incense holders.  Fireproof 'fire-cotton' fabric is used so that air can flow easily all around the lit incense stick.  

Incense will not stay lit on a plain, flat surface.  But when placed on the 'fire-cotton' fabric in this incense burner, it will burn easily and safely.

This incense burner can easily hold longer 21cm incense sticks.

Rich and beautifully damp, this incense combines the soothing aromas of sweet sandalwood and aloeswood with traditional Japanese spices

Beautiful sweet wood aroma with notes of spices and moist earth.

It's quite special when the dry fragrant material of an incense can produce a feeling like walking alongside a river with moisture in the air...  River Trail incense has that kind of feeling.  In this traditional Japanese recipe, aloeswood, sandalwood, and many spices including cinnamon, clove, and benzoin, are combined to create this very calming fragrance.

I encourage experimentation with incense and tea pairing, but I think that this incense goes well with any of the fragrant oolongs like Gui Fei or Floral Mountain Tie Guan Yin.

15g incense ~ 48x 14cm sticks.  Approximate burn time of one stick ~ 30 minutes.

Clear, uplifting, alpine cedar.  Notes of winter cabin and warm sauna.

Clear, uplifting, alpine cedar.  Notes of winter cabin and warm sauna.

I was very happy to come across this simple, yet quite lovely cedar incense.  It is a very gentle incense that I use often at my desk.  In addition to high quality resinous cedar, there is mugwort and cinnamon that create a sweet and sweet profile.  Not to be missed.  

I encourage experimentation with incense and tea pairing, but I think that Alpine Cedar goes well with any of the dark and aged oolongs.

15g incense ~ 50x 21cm sticks.  Approximate burn time of one stick ~ 30 minutes.

Dark resin of frankincense with notes of spicy copal.  Notes of ancient mid-winter feast.

Dark ancient resin with notes of copal and orange peel.

Real frankincense tree resin from Oman is pulverized and combined with natural makko to create an incense that is structurally simple, but aromatically complex.  This style of incense is very clean and clear like many natural Japanese incense, but the frankincense material causes a transformation that is very deepening.  The notes of deep, spicy copal are lovely, and are nothing like the smoky, harsh, and overheated low-quality frankincense you might have smelled in a church.

If you were familiar with the previous Totem Frankincense, this Copal Frankincense is less sweet, more spicy.  Less bright, more dark.  Definitely interesting.  

I encourage experimentation with incense and tea pairing, but I think that this Frankincense goes well with any of the fragrant oolongs like Gui Fei or Wen Shan Bao Zhong.

15g incense ~ 46x 14cm sticks.  Approximate burn time of one stick ~ 30 minutes.

Timeless Chinese bronze incense censer with gold flake, this cauldron-dish is perfect for stick and coil incense.

Bronze and gold flake create this timeless incense censer.

Gold flake upon this classic bronze censer creates an incense dish can used for almost all incense from Japan, Taiwan, China, and most larger diameter incense from Tibet and Mongolia like Golden Walks incense.  I love the heft of this censer, and it's nice to pair the weight of the dish with the weightlessness of incense smoke.

This incense dish comes with 9-hole copper incense holder that is suitable for various sizes of incense.

This censor would also work well with coil incense, incense trail, and other forms of koh-do.

Dish diameter: 3.5" wide, 2.75" opening, 2" tall.  Sold with 9-hole copper holder.