when a Kodo-cup is being shared and passed across individuals, everyone smells a different heated phase, the first person to handle the cup, gets the top notes, and probably the last person to handle the cup will only get to experience the heated base tail end notes of the fragrant wood. To properly identify a wood’s origin, one needs to take into account the whole heated experience from start to end, at different temperatures, and together even with the experience straight onto charcoal, not just any single phase.
