Most of the agarwood powders on the market are generally made from ground up post-distilled agarwood chips, thus missing a large and important proportion of olfactory notes that could have existed in the non-distilled agarwood chips. As decent quality agarwood chips are expensive, powders made from these chips are just as expensive, if… [Read More…]
Pressed Incense Tablets
Pressed Incense Tablets 印香 is a subset of Incense Printing / 香篆 and it dates back to the same period/era where incense printing was popular both in China and in Japan around the Song Dynasty / Hei-an period. The earliest evidence of the existence of incense tablets comes from the Ying Xian wooden pagoda in… [Read More…]
Buying Japanese incense from Rakuten Global
To follow up on my previous post, buying incense from various shops on Rakuten Global is also an alternative, although many may neither be as well stocked nor as organized as Kohgen. There are at least three shops that I would recommend here, and there is some convenience with the checkout process as it is… [Read More…]
How to Buy Incense from Japan – KohGen
I’ve been getting my incenses and stuff from Japan directly for quite a while, and KohGen’s one of my most favourite online shops. They have a very large product range, a reasonably easy to use checkout page, and very fast processing of your orders. I had also arranged for gifts to be sent to friends,… [Read More…]
How to Blend Incense
Apologies for the lack of updates for a while, Singapore was hit by some kind of bad haze due to forest fires in Indonesia, I hope the gaharu trees are still safe!! The haze was probably caused by oil palm plantation owners clearing land, forest or old plantations by setting everything on fire. Theoretically its… [Read More…]
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Hello all, Just a public service announcement. My web administrator had been updating me with potential site attacks, logins, and bots trying to trawl/dig my website, with also many people from all over the world saving my pages, downloading all my images etc. There are also various merchants, vendors, that have my website hyperlinked in… [Read More…]
The Best Day of the Year to Make Incense
The above statement is one that has been passed down in Chinese Incense culture records. The translation of it roughly means : Fragrant herbs are born from the culmination of pure Yang, it is the embodiment of pure Yang. The Fifth Day of the Fifth Lunar Month, is a festival celebrated by the Chinese. It… [Read More…]
Two controversial identities of Golden Silk Kynam
金丝奇楠, or Golden silk kynam in modern day suffers two controversial identities. Under modern grading of authentic kynam, high end dealers in Hongkong occasionally classify some kynams as golden silk kynam due to the golden silky streaks of resin present in the wood, with the other grades being silver silk, coffee kynam, or simply normal… [Read More…]
Usage of Kynam or Kyara in the naming of modern Incense products
In the recent years, there are many incense products on the market that are marketed as “kynam incense” or “kyara incense”, of which many consumers are easily convinced to make a purchase without reading the fine prints. It seems that the Japanese incense companies are the only ones making incense with kyara/kynam, with some sticks… [Read More…]
Burning Incense Powders as trails without Makko
Ever tried to burn a scoop or a mound of incense powder (sandalwood, agarwood etc) in a saucer or an incense burner and not have it combust to completion, often smouldering, smelling charred and too smokey? That happens because of the lack of proper access to air for complete combustion of incense powders if… [Read More…]
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