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"I don't like incense" almost always means "I don't like the incense I've met." For most Americans that's one thing: a thick, sweet, powdery stick — nag champa, patchouli, "dragon's blood" — from a shop that also sells tapestries. That is one tradition, and it's a loud one. The other tradition is quiet, woody, and...
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Incense ash ends up on the table for one reason: the holder was designed for a different stick. Most cheap holders are a wooden "boat" for a bamboo-core Indian stick, which stands stiff and drops ash in one place. A thin coreless Chinese or Japanese stick is longer, has no core to hold it, and...
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A closer look at frankincense incense sticks, how they differ from loose resin, and Enrich's woody, resinous place in a personal ritual for a new day or chapter.
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What rose incense smells like, where it fits into an ordinary evening, and a closer look at Unclog—soft floral fragrance for time that belongs to you.
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Incense smoke fills a small apartment for three reasons, and none of them is the size of the room. It's the stick (a charcoal core makes far more smoke than the scent needs), the air (still air lets smoke settle at head height instead of leaving), and the timing (lighting a second stick, or blowing...
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Incense is usually blamed for the headache. Most of the time it's innocent. The culprit is what a cheap stick is dipped in: synthetic fragrance oil on a charcoal-and-sawdust core, burned in a room with the windows shut. Change those three things — the perfume, the core, the air — and most people find the...
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A quiet three-step ritual for closing the laptop, lighting natural orchid incense, and giving the workday a clear ending.
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