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Wishing all readers : Happy Lunar New Year 2016!

8 February 2016 by Kyara Zen

Hi folks! Happy Lunar New Year! Time flies.. and another year has gone by.   Wishing all my readers, good health, happiness, and many fragrant experiences! Growing a little radish at my tea and incense table, in chinese, radish is called 菜头 which sounds like auspicious beginnings Plum blossoms – announcing spring’s arrival. I had… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Articles, The Way of Incense

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

Incenses for a Good Cause!

23 November 2015 by Kyara Zen

There are strict local laws here on the regulation of societies and associations, and for any organizations/gathering of more than ten members, it is necessary to have the society formally registered with the government! Here’s just an example on how complicated the matter is in paper 😛   In order to continue and expand on… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Ex Incense, Experiences Tagged With: incense

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…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: kyara

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…]

Filed Under: Articles, Incense Tagged With: incense sticks

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…]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood

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

Heartwood

18 April 2015 by Kyara Zen

Managed to chance upon something uncommon recently, heartwood from a single old tree (estimated >100 years) of northern malaysia origin. The heartwood was undergoing some serious compaction as the tree was growing, the fibres are crumbly, the wood is crackly This is kodo-grade material! sinking wood is mostly “black resin”, this material, is golden fibres (contains… [Read More…]

Filed Under: Zen Garden Tagged With: agarwood

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