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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。”

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

Filed Under: Zen Garden Tagged With: agarwood

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

Filed Under: Articles, Incense Tagged With: incense sticks

Happy Year of the Goat!

7 March 2015 by Kyara Zen

Happy Lunar New Year to all readers! Wishing everyone good health, prosperity, wellbeing and lots of excellent olfactory joys in the Year of the Goat! ... [Read More...]

Filed Under: Articles, Others

Kyarazen is on Instagram!

16 January 2015 by Kyara Zen

although KZ is not really on social media, I had created an instagram account just for the fun of it and so that readers/friends can get regular updates on what Kz's up to. you can find kyarazen here at ... [Read More...]

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How the Structure of Water affects tea

12 January 2015 by Kyara Zen

We all know that the dissolved ions in water, i.e. iron, sodium, potassium, chlorides, carbonates etc affect the taste of the water. But apart from the usual chemical composition of water, there's another lesser discussed aspect that also affect ... [Read More...]

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: tea

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