Burn of the Day

Found the roll of IO Vietnam Incense at work ... got tempted for an afternoon burn session ... to my surprise there was quarter stick of Sinking Malinau of Dr Incense...

So afternoon work with some coffee was just perfect


My afternoon set my mood for some low heat session in the night...

So went with EO Bois D'Iris and ASO Sinking Malaysia chips ....

My room is [emoji7]

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Hedycent you have inspired me. When I get home today I am going to clean up my ash bed and lay down a trail to burn some woods and resins. I love placing different materials along the way... I used to put a little pinch of camphor at the point between one batch of wood splinters and the next batch of different splinters. This gives a little olfactory warning whenever the scent is about to change. I usually use makko powder as my trail material (kind of like the scent - nice and dry mineral and wood aroma) but I think I will use sandalwood today.
 
Mr.P said:
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Frankincense from a local shop. I use these large mica sheets for frankincense - they keep any of the liquid that melts out from getting on the coils of the (subitism type) heating element so I can heat a decent sized pile. Each sheet is about 2.5” x 3.5”. Great way to heat frankincense!
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@Mr.P you can try putting the resin on aluminium foil as well - just turn the edges up and it will simply form a pool. You might not even need the mica plate.

@Sproaty That's my man...

My personal theory is that the smoke of frankincense is necessary for the truly uplifting effect that it provides. It is more predominantly a tradition of fumigation than scent. Also the acrid notes will not appear as much if you use darker frankincense, and especially the black hojari.
 
As I am more focused on wearing oils I prefer to make my own incense (first because I am developing a great fondness for such adventures - foraging natural ingredients in the mountains and forests, grinding and mixing them with mortar, trying different ratios; second because it costs only my time 😉).
So today I prepared a new batch of incense balls.
I dried elderberry flowers and mixed them with the lichen I already collected plus with some frankincense for some added sweetness (this in itself already makes for a WONDERFUL incense). Then I mixed these with spruce resin and added dragon's blood resin which I think works really well with spruce.
The result was even better than the last incense balls I made. Nature sure gives us plenty of treasures to enjoy.

[Ouddict.com] Burn of the Day
 
Kombucha?
 
Ahh... I thought the white stuff on top was the kombucha “mother”! Never seen vinegar made this way before!
 
Beautiful
 
Sandalwood on the subitism. Baieido chips from 2002 or so. Very delicious. I discovered something interesting that I think relates to the aroma of different sandalwood oils. I heat sandalwood chips in two stages. The first at very low temperature, then when that is exhausted I switch to the second moderate to high temperature. The low-temperature stage is very sweet creamy, very smooth. The second stage is more buttered popcorn, maple sugar. I wonder if the buttery popcorn sandalwoods (which are nice in their own way) are the result of high temperature / pressure distillation, and the smoother stuff low temperature?
 
The baieido oguryama long sticks is one of my favorite baieido products, period. The hakusui were amazing as well.
 
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