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The Way of Collecting (1) – A World View

2 March 2019 by Kyara Zen

…inability in its monetary value over time, and could be linked to the long term interest in the object, and the long term survival of any related artists. There is a direct path (green line) on how politics and propaganda can immediately have an effect on sustainability and survival, this in term affects the artist’s sentiments, and then exerts its effect on the Artist. Instead of going to the part of expressivity in the form of Condensed Symbolis…

Filed Under: Musings

Bad incense or tea day

18 March 2015 by Kyara Zen

…es not cause saturation of olfactory responses (after which one becomes temporarily anosmic!). This is one of the important things to take note during incense appreciation. Personally I do not like long term retension of molecules within the nasal cavity or long term stimulation of the olfactory bulb. It causes saturation and dulls the senses and may have long term consequences.  …

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: incense notes, tea

Turning the Subitism Burner into the ultimate incense heater

19 August 2013 by Kyara Zen

…will connect this variable power supply to the Subitism burner, using the search terms “banana to 2.1mm” you will be able to find a $3 USD cable that will work perfectly. With this power supply, you will be able to heat almost anything on the Subitism burner with only one single 0.1mm overlaying mica sheet. As a guideline: Soft resins, essential oils : 6-8 volts Pressed incense pellets : 9 volts Nerikoh kneaded incense : 9.5 volts Kyara : Startin…

Filed Under: Articles, Incense Tagged With: Subitism

Japanese Incense types

4 March 2013 by Kyara Zen

Sho-koh Granulated Incense

…se A more accurate direct translation for this incense type would be “line/string incense” instead. This is a very large category as most of the incense used today are in these formats. Long sticks (lines) of fragrant material, self supporting, can be lit on one end and have it slowly burn by itself, providing fragrance over a long period of time, unlike other incense types i.e. sho-koh where fragrant material have to be constantly re-added to sus…

Filed Under: Articles, Incense Tagged With: japanese, kodo, makkoh-trails, mon-koh, neri-koh, sho-koh, zu-koh

KZ ventures into oils

2 October 2016 by Kyara Zen

…ake to as a learning reference. Take for example the Cambodia Classic, the search took about a year, we sampled over 200 “cambodis” from all sorts of sources, suppliers, and couldn’t find one that hit the right note, high quality and value for money, until we found this. I remembered the first encounter with this oil, I chided the trader because it took him so long to be willing to show and share it with me. He says it is very normal not for young…

Filed Under: Articles, Oud

De-mystifying Onycha

23 February 2016 by Kyara Zen

…ula of a mollusk, generally of the murex species. To put things in simpler terms, onycha, the opercula of a mollusk, is simply the “gate” or “trapdoor” that the shellfish uses to protect itself from predators, and also prevent itself from drying out. Some species of conch use their operculum to move! Since marine snails and shellfish are non-kosher, it leads to added controversy on whether this material was really the real onycha used in the Qetor…

Filed Under: Articles, The Way of Incense Tagged With: onycha

Making Kneaded Incense Balls – Neri-Koh

16 April 2013 by Kyara Zen

…ese medicine. The Qin Dynasty Emperor (221-206 B.C.) was obsessed with the search for an elixir of life, miraculous pills from heavenly deities that could give one eternal life.     But myths and legends aside, kneaded incenses have stood the test of time at least for the Japanese, that their version, known as Neri-Koh, is still being made and used today since its inception a millenium ago. The Chinese, with the decline of the chinese art/way of i…

Filed Under: Articles, The Way of Incense Tagged With: kodo, mon-koh, neri-koh, Subitism

Kyara, is it or is it not?

23 October 2015 by Kyara Zen

…of a huge profit. Turned out that their material was fake, and a lot of intermediate downlines that were hoping to strike it rich, was stuck with large amounts of fake material, and the uplines at the top, having stirred and fanned the stories, laughing their way to the bank. Now, there is going to be a second wave, with the forgeries even better now, adding in cholesterol, synthetic ambrein, and many other materials to ensure that hallmarks of a…

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

How long can fragrant woods be kept?

15 June 2014 by Kyara Zen

Cut edge of Sumatora Keychain

…t I mean. These wound surfaces, over time, months, years, will lose their astringent sharp, spicy properties, and mature to become better smelling. Similarly, such materials when harvested and kept over the years, these undesirable properties can “recede”, allowing the better smelling resinous notes to surface and not be clouded. A decrease in sharp, astringent/spicy notes will allow one to perceive the material to be sweeter as well. The other is…

Filed Under: Articles, Kyara and Aloeswood Tagged With: agarwood, kodo, kyara, kynam, mon-koh

Secrets on choosing Yixing Teapots

16 June 2014 by Kyara Zen

…shapes, wall thicknesses, have different thermal loss coefficients that determine how long this “extreme hot” phase is (usually matter of seconds), and subsequently how “cool” the tea is being brewed for in the next minute or so. That will determine the brew output, on how aromatic, balanced it would be. 9) This is also a reason why most gongfu tea is limited to pots that are small, and not incredibly huge at the few hundred milliliter levels. Ap…

Filed Under: Articles, Tea Tagged With: yixing teapots

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