…should die down soon as today the government announced non-entry to short term visitors. During this period, I had not engaged in any incense making, so dear customers, apologies for not having anything available. I hope to resume in April if the air clears up. In the mean time, I’ve blended an attar called “Al-Ta’ib” using Jeff’s Fermented Hainanese oil using ideas of some indolic florals and a sandalwood CO2 with some musk, it is currently agin…
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Incenses for a Good Cause!
…n brings together a group of incense loving individuals, and a grand, long term plan of different activities, keeping us safe from legislative infringements. The association/society has to operate as a non-profit organisation, subject to audits, and it sustains itself only through membership fees, donations etc. With the impending approval of our Incense Culture Association of Singapore, I thought it would be particularly important for a proper sy…
Is there any difference between Kyara and Kinam?
…Kyara was also known as Kynam, Ky-Lam, or Kya-nam. Kyara was a Japan-only term, solely used in Japan to describe Kynam, whilst outside of Japan, kynam or calambac was used instead. Therefore, only on this website, the word Kynam (Kinam) is used interchangeably with Kyara in many articles because these terms are used in the historical context, when they are equal, identical. Please do not get confused! A portuguese explorer, Tomes Pires (1465-…
Age of Agarwood and the tree
…ad or watched some agarwood related videos from China, they mention that research showed that an agarwood tree should be minimum 12 years old before artificial induction, this is because the resin duct system of the tree would have been mature by then. Why is the age of the infection/resination that important? Because a constant stimulus over time is needed for the tree to make good wild agarwood. The natural process over time creates an excelle…