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“古人说: 要积了三辈子的阴德,才能闻得奇楠香, 要八辈子修来的福气,才可品或饮用奇楠香。”

Enjoying Kyara through Mon-Koh

23 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

Mon-Koh is loosely translated as “listening to incense” from the Japanese language. Kyara is best enjoyed using Japanese “mon-koh” methods, where a red hot coal is buried under ash in a ceramic cup, with a small ventilation hole prodded to provide ... [Read More...]

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

Experience Green-oil Kyara!

19 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

*Edit  - Out of Stock!! Ever wondered how that elusive USD $500/gram green oil kyara smells like? One could spend years reading about kyara, thousands of words describing what it smells like, what its properties are like.. but all it takes is just ... [Read More...]

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The Ancient Chinese Classifications of Aloeswood

19 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

Dating back to the Western Jin dynasty, and re-published in Song Dynasty and Ming dynasty records before it faded away, the ancient Chinese appeared to classify aloeswood by the following terms 蜜香, 沉香, 鸡骨香, 黄熟香, 栈香, 青桂香, 马蹄香, ... [Read More...]

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What is Kyara or Kynam?

17 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

Kyara/Kynam/Kinam is a tiny subset within aloeswoods in a very very small percentage. In a historical context, it refers to a special type/grade of aloeswood with unique and excellent fragrance properties. The Chinese have a saying that one needs an ... [Read More...]

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

Ranjatai – The Most Famous piece of Aloeswood

8 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

Ranjatai

A large piece of fragrant wood drifting ashore onto Awaji Island in the 6th Century, and presented to the Empress Suiko was recorded in the Nihon Shoji. The ability of Prince Shotuku to identify this fragrant wood as aloeswood or Jin-Koh, suggests ... [Read More...]

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: japanese, ranjatai

History of Kyara

6 February 2013 by Kyara Zen

Diagrams in Chinese Compendium of Herbs

Kynam, qinan (奇楠), kyara. The esteemed names of a very precious fragrant material on earth that almost no one seem to truly know in the modern world today. Historically, the Vietnamese called it calambac, in Sanskrit, it was recorded as ... [Read More...]

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

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