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Traditional Dong Ding Oolong & the KZ Tea Experiment

24 December 2015 by Kyara Zen

A super long over due article! But mainly because I was waiting for survey results/replies from people. Many months ago, I held a free tea sample give away, a sample set that consists of 4 teas, 5 grams each, sent out at no cost to the recipients, only with the request that they fill in… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: oolong, tea

Kyara, is it or is it not?

23 October 2015 by Kyara Zen

Do you know that there are just countless people in the world, trying to make a fortune from all sorts of materials they try to find from the wild? Take for example, ambergris, it is quite a dark trade, the amount of rivalry between scavengers (some of them whom even tried to run others down… [Read More…]

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Soil Agarwoods

16 October 2015 by Kyara Zen

There are two obvious lines of soil agarwood on the market, one from vietnam, and the other from Indonesia. The Vietnamese line consists of 3 types of soil agarwoods, yellow, red and black soil. In Indonesia, some call it yellow soil, but it is just Irian/Merauke’s Filaria material, and occasionally some papuan. But that said,… [Read More…]

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Installing Teapot filters

1 September 2015 by Kyara Zen

Oops, another hiatus in writing. Had been caught up in much work and was also away on a trip to Taiwan. As I should be re-starting to warm myself up by writing more posts.. I thought I would start with a simple, but important subject, installing filters in tea pots. To proper tea drinkers, and people… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: teapots

Incense Stick Making – A Walk Through

30 June 2015 by Kyara Zen

I had received some requests on how to actually go about making incense sticks, and there were comments on my earlier post that I had not show how the incense dough was made prior to extrusion, and how I managed to get such straight sticks and scale up my production. The truth is, I’ve not been… [Read More…]

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Agarwood in Microscopy

18 June 2015 by Kyara Zen

oops! long overdue articles as usual. beeen reallly really busy studying and researching on tea pots and making incense sticks but i’ve not forgotten about writing.   Sometimes, when people handle agarwood, they are seen pouring over the piece of wood with a handheld magnifier. What are they actually looking for?… Here are some tips…. [Read More…]

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Alshareef II – Journey to the Heart of Oud

26 April 2015 by Kyara Zen

  Ever since a few years ago, Oud had become the buzz word in western perfumery, all the major western perfume houses now carry different “oud” products. I had friends that would ask me from time to time to check out this “oud spray” or that “oud eau de parfum”, and I would respond like……. [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Oud Tagged With: oud

Patina development of Yixing pots

28 March 2015 by Kyara Zen

Every yixing pot collector probably would have heard of the legend of seasoning yixing pots, that the longer you use it, one day, by just adding hot water to the pot, you can get tea! It is a myth and a huge misconception, partially due to poor translations of chinese texts. The original historical phrase… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: yixing teapots

Bad incense or tea day

18 March 2015 by Kyara Zen

Recently I came upon a post from someone on a forum that he had a bad tea day despite having followed the exact same procedures in the preparation, from the water quality, to the boiling, to the pot, to the quantity of tea leaves in weight, same steep duration etc, and the tea was not… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: incense notes, tea

Kyarazen Handmade incense sticks

8 March 2015 by Kyara Zen

Having had purchased and sampled and studied countless incenses from all sorts of origins over the years, it soon became a personal challenge to create incenses that are both artistically inspired, and olfactorily able to match up to commercially available premium incenses. Painting images for others by the scent of a burning incense stick is a personal… [Read More…]

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