Incense of the Day

[AbasFrag]

Burning 5 different sandalwood incense sticks to compare. The best ones I've tried is produced by a dear irish friend. Using sri lankan brown sandalwood. It's as if oud married sandalwood. This would be the child... the body of oud and the creaminess of sandalwood. Perfect

 

[DubOudh]

Got these from Andrew early last this year.
Can't remember the name of it...but very nice.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Shunkohdo Yoshino No Haru

Pleasant blend of resins and herbs,
similar to Kunmeido’s Asuka,
but Asuka has more agarwood.

 

[hedycent]

Dr.incense’s treated sandal, a little powdered Sabah and Bhutanese juniper

 

[Oudamberlove]

Kyukyodo Akikaze

Quite agarwoody once you get
passed the turmeric.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Yamadamatsu Hyofu

It supposedly contains frankincense,
but I get a cooling watermelon note.

 

[Taesik Yun]

Yamadamatsu Hyofu

It supposedly contains frankincense,
but I get a cooling watermelon note.

do you get floral in this one? it somewhat gives me a feeling of a lotus flower. 😊

 

[Oudamberlove]

do you get floral in this one? it somewhat gives me a feeling of a lotus flower. 😊

Definitely floral also, but not dominant to my nose.

 

[TheOudDood]

Yamadamatsu Hyofu

It supposedly contains frankincense,
but I get a cooling watermelon note.

Yeah i get the frank note pretty heavy. I wonder if they’re trying to emulate the melon note from Viet soil woods? I found this note in the siam wooden box sticks as well and I really don’t care for it 😅

 

[Oudamberlove]

Yeah i get the frank note pretty heavy. I wonder if they’re trying to emulate the melon note from Viet soil woods? I found this note in the siam wooden box sticks as well and I really don’t care for it 😅

Me neither, if I get any melon notes, I want it from the actual wood, not the sticks.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Yamadamatsu Shuju Kyara

I can smell the kyara,
and it looks like Kotaro has the paulownia
box of it available again, but at $900😳
I can’t smell 900😵‍💫

 

[TheOudDood]

Yamadamatsu Shuju Kyara

I can smell the kyara,
and it looks like Kotaro has the paulownia
box of it available again, but at $900😳
I can’t smell 900😵‍💫

Interesting! I never really got much kyara from my 5 sticks but I can revisit it and see if perhaps I missed it. It was pretty smokey and hard to really see how it was vastly superior to even Ouju. IMO Ouju is pretty much on par with the Kyara firebird series but at a fraction of the price.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Interesting! I never really got much kyara from my 5 sticks but I can revisit it and see if perhaps I missed it. It was pretty smokey and hard to really see how it was vastly superior to even Ouju. IMO Ouju is pretty much on par with the Kyara firebird series but at a fraction of the price.

Smokey it is…and definitely not a lot of kyara, about as much as you can pick up from those other two YMs, but this kyara sits alone with the smoke, rather than joining a blend, but at 900? No way…..I get much more kyara goodness from some other sticks.

 

[Castingshadows]

Been pretty enamored with Fleeting Clouds from Kangiiten.

This whole shin kyara stuff is revolutionary.

 

[TheOudDood]

Smokey it is…and definitely not a lot of kyara, about as much as you can pick up from those other two YMs, but this kyara sits alone with the smoke, rather than joining a blend, but at 900? No way…..I get much more kyara goodness from some other sticks.

Ok im burning it now and getting some clear kyara from it finally. But the cultivated kynam sticks from Kai blow this out of the water at a fraction of the price 😅

 

[Taesik Yun]

Yizhi Incense's sandalwood.

I like this 7cm height short stick. it's quite convenient to switch scents and strong enough to fill out the small room.
the scent is nice. definitely better than most Japanese sandalwood incense.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Baieido Kyara Kokoh

Always a special treat to light this stick,
followed by Ken’s Ambon…
fruity, floral, resin….very aromatic.

 

[Taesik Yun]

Yamadamatsu Shikun and Kumoyi.
both shine in the Winter season. sweet and warm.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Shunkohdo Vietnam Kanhoa

Just agarwood and binder,
not bad, but for the $$ better to
go for Artisanal.

 

[Taesik Yun]

do you guys know better ways to grind sandalwoods other than using a wood file?
I'm trying to grind black meat sandalwood and it's extremely difficult to grind this wood. 😥