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 ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]
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. ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]
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 ... [Read More...]