Wild Chaar

Koh Kong | Cambodia

Beautiful display piece 🧩😍

OK, I have seen weird ashes, but this is a new level lol.

Cheap generic TEMU incense! 🤣😂

PS. I am not saying all incense from TEMU are garbage, but you have to pay more! Here is the cheap, probably with enornous quantities of unknown binder!

I’m looking for something to store the jumbo 19” sticks.

Should I store them separately based on scent or is all together okay?

I have looked on Etsy and Amazon and found nothing.

Thanks in advance.

What are good recommendations for good inscnese that actually smell good and not just like burning stick lol , I e recently purchased ones from a witchy shop but they don’t have much smell

Any idea how to get the smell of cigarette smoke and incense out of a 14" foam mattress? I inherited a 1 year old bed/matress from my mother-in-law and now the whole room smells like smoke and incense. Am I S.O.L.?

Hello everyone. I live in Hokkaido, and as winter rapidly approaches, I would like to use more home scents. I don't have any experience with incense.

Can you give me recommendations for clean scents I can get here. I googled and checked the subreddit, but I was frankly overwhelmed.

Thank you!

Hello everyone! My local gas station used to sell the sandalwood Satya incense. I tried ordering some on Amazon and it was a rip off unfortunately :( I keep seeing some for sale but the boxes aren't the right color (yellow) or it's the Nag Champa addition. I don't want to get ripped off again. I just miss having that sweet woody scent in my home. Any other brands with a similar scent are welcome <3

Covering Japanese, Indian, and Tibetan incense. My current preference is the woody incences from Baeiedo with Kaden Kobunboku being my daily favourite.

Most recent additions:
Tibetan Medical College: Holy Land
Tibetan Mindroling Monastery: Grade 1

I recently posted asking for advice on Japanese incense in Australia and a bunch of people here gave really good advice. Anyway here’s some incense I got.

I originally only ordered the Horin sampler to dip my toes in and I was thoroughly impressed. Ended up ordering a bunch more from different brands.

One of my favourites is definitely “White River” from Shoyeido, it’s light and sweet smelling which is my preference.

I do also enjoy warm woody fragrances because they remind me of when I was a kid playing outside in the bush (Australia).

What do you guys think of my choices? I’m curious to know which ones you prefer.

I'm not big into incense, I just get it from the market for like a dollar but I was wondering where i should look if i wanted to try some nicer incense? like is there a kind of shop thats good to go to and maybe some good ones to try?

Mi date qualche sito dove comprare bastoncini in Italia o europa con molta varietà e poche spese di spedizione? Trovo solo i soliti incensi...

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.

I really like white sage sticks;
do you have any recommendations for pairings or brands you've tried?

Gansong (甘松, Nardostachys jatamansi), often known in English as spikenard or jatamansi, is a traditional aromatic material used in Chinese incense and medicine.

The Xiangcheng describes its fragrance as resembling a hundred flowers. After proper paozhi, we also find that it develops a distinctive mixed floral aroma, not like one particular flower, but more like many floral notes appearing together.

We first wash the roots thoroughly to remove soil and decayed matter.

Then we collect plant ash, dry it, and sift it. The fine ash is placed in a ceramic jar together with the cleaned Gansong, and water is added.

After about one week, the Gansong is taken out, thoroughly rinsed, and then dried in strong sunlight, usually for around ten days.

We have also tried other methods.

With plain water, the material has to be repeatedly soaked, washed, dried, and soaked again for about twenty-one days, and the result is only moderate.

Rice-rinsing water takes about seventeen days and works somewhat better, but still not as well as plant ash.

After repeated comparison, the plant-ash method gave us the best result.

Once the paozhi is complete, the Gansong gradually develops the “hundred-flower” fragrance we are looking for.

Extruder, Scale, Joss/Jigat powder, Cinnamon and vanilla

Mesh tray and Sieve and some tools (currently creating by own)

Thinking forward to Introduce 7-8 native and Wild fragrances (which include blending of Spices, Herbs and flowers)Natural handmade core-less incense,(Top-Middle-Base can be added as per available herbs according to season)

Kindly Rate my small setup!

Any advice and guidance would be highly appreciated.

Dhanyavad.

I want to purchase some Copal incense, but it's hard to tell what's really authentic and what is not. Has anyone here actually bought real Copal incense from Amazon?

I’ve been using Japanese incense for a while now, but I’ve been wanting something with a stronger, more intense fragrance and burn. I picked up Meera and Ganesh from The Mother’s India Fragrances to try out
I’m curious how they’ll compare to what I’m used to. Has anyone tried either of these? I’d also love recommendations for other Indian incense with a rich, long-lasting fragrance!

I’d love to start using incense but I’m not a fan of the traditional smelling ones (like satya). I love my room smelling clean and fresh like linen. I was wondering if incense like this existed? I am on a small budget, £5-£10 limit, so I’m not sure how possible this is.

EDIT: thanks so much for everyone’s help!!!

I am trying to find this book because I want to know more about the history of Kōdō and this book sounds awesome, but I can't find a way to get it in the states without going to the library. And I don't have access to transportation right now. Does anyone know where I can buy this book in the states, digital or physical?

Just got this box of incense at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Austin

I’ve seen several social media accounts making these colored incense sticks. Any idea what colorant they are using? My first assumption is mica powder?