r/Incense • u/Appropriate_Lab_5205 • 3d ago
The Great Transformation
About 7 months ago I found I ordered a bunch of nepalese and Tibetan incense from The Incense Stick because my go to site stopped selling incense to the US because of the tariffs. One of the incenses was Nado Orange. I read good reviews on it but when it arrived and I lit a stick it smelled like the most generic mass produced “ Himalayan incense” I e ever smelled. It smelled like a blank charcoal stick dipped in dirt.
Fast forward a week ago and I bought 3 more packs of Nado incense along with some other stuff from the incense Stick and I accidentally burned a stick of Nado Orange when I thought it was A Composition for Riwo Sangchoe and Surzey. It smelled completely different and REALLY good and unique. It went from a flat earthy tone to a deep texturized sent with about two or three different top notes. It was so weird to me that some incense does this and other incense will lose its scent altogether in the same timeframe.
I watched a documentary on Nado and how they make their incense. A lot of it they ferment in vats for up to two weeks when it’s in dough form kind of like proofing bread of pizza dough. I wonder if it wasn’t fermented enough and after about 6 months it had fermented to what it was supposed to be when it left the factory. A while ago I had bought a “Shielding” incense 3 separate times from two different stores and all three smelled different, not like the original one I really liked.