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How long can fragrant woods be kept?

15 June 2014 by Kyara Zen

Cut edge of Sumatora Keychain

You probably would have seen the fragrant wood storage article from some time back, where I routinely prefer to store fragrant woods in glass containers with teflon lined caps that seal, the fragrant wood really well. The aim of this method is to prevent volatiles from escaping, and also to prevent contaminants from entering. Fragrant… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, kodo, kyara, kynam, mon-koh

Know your Fragrant Wood Cuts

2 June 2014 by Kyara Zen

If you are a meat lover, particularly that of beef, you should know the cuts of your meats really well. Similarly if you are a fragrant wood lover involved in either Japanese/Chinese or other forms of incense practices/ceremonies, it is just as important to know the cut types, and how they are obtained.   The… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, kodo, kyara, kynam, mon-koh

Age of Agarwood and the tree

28 April 2014 by Kyara Zen

Does the age of the agarwood tree matter??!! Actually….. the age of the infection/resination is the most important, not particularly the age of the tree. If you have had chopped down an agarwood tree that is a couple hundred years old.. you will find quite significant amounts of white wood. Poor old tree. And if… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: jinkoh, kodo, kyara, kynam

Scientific Literature on Kyara

31 March 2014 by Kyara Zen

well.. thought it could be time to get a little scientific 🙂 when I was doing my phd… reading science papers was a norm, they contain reasonably credible, peer reviewed, and quality information on various subject matters in depth. When it comes to incense or fragrant woods, it would be strange if people choose to… [Read More…]

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Agarwood in the 1980s

15 March 2014 by Kyara Zen

I thought I would share a couple of pictures which I had requested from Mr Lee (owner of the Kyarazen 1985 oud), to allow people to have a “preview” of what agarwood was like in the 80s. It was not uncommon to have gigantic well resinated woods pass through the hands of Mr Lee as… [Read More…]

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What if you have discovered a huge chunk of kyara

18 February 2014 by Kyara Zen

Friend called and the conversation went like : AHHHHH!!! HELP!!! I think I just saw a huge chunk of kyara, probably 1 kilogram , and the trader doesn’t know!! Me : What’s the price? Friend : Not confirmed, but possibly below $50 per gram Me : Then WHAT are you waiting for ?!?!??! Friend :… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, kyara, kynam, singapore

Agarwood beads

17 January 2014 by Kyara Zen

Agarwood beads are amongst the hardest to verify amongst all agarwood related products., This is due to the way the beads are made, spun, polished etc. The ultimate way to verify a bead, is just to split it into half, check the grain, resination, and to heat it on a heater at various temperatures. But… [Read More…]

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Cultivated Agarwood

17 December 2013 by Kyara Zen

Agarwood plantations are common all throughout South East asia today. Some plantations are beginning to reap the fruits of what they had planted a decade ago, and have pushed out a myriad of intriguing agarwood products such as agarwood leaf tea, agarwood cookies, agarwood flavoured instant noodles, wood chips, oils, soaps etc.   The strange… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, agarwood singapore, mon-koh

Kyara versus Shin-Kyara

7 September 2013 by Kyara Zen

The subject of Shin Kyara is rather new and foreign to people outside of Japan, but this definition/concept has been known domestically, in certain incense schools for a very long time! Some incense companies have been substituting Kyara with Shin-kyara in their Rikkoku sets as a cost cutting measure.     Basically Shin Kyara is just… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: japanese, kodo, kyara, kynam, mon-koh

Impressions of the Ranjatai

6 August 2013 by Kyara Zen

Several incense houses in Japan have been known to create blended incense sticks based on their impression of the Ranjatai through Mon-koh. Small fragments of the Ranjatai are known to be in possession of descendants of kodo masters and big incense companies, from which they draw inspiration into crafting a representative incense based on the… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, japanese, jinkoh, kodo, kyara, mon-koh, ranjatai

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