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-Renton-
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I am burning 3 sticks of Tokusen Kobunboku by Baieido, lovely sticks. This time I can smell the sandalwood a lot more now, it is revealing itself to me more, first the scent of aloeswood got stronger and more pronounced (1st box didnt reveal as much as this) now I can see the dance between sandalwood and Indonesian aloeswood. It is quite nice, the sandalwood isn't "low quality" that I thought, it is actually quite sweet, lightly creamy, light to moderate butteriness dancing around a strong Indonesian aloeswood main note, the herbs and spices are only added in tiny proportions, mainly to help the stick become fuller, richer, and aid in the sticks "health benefits" , which I do believe these spices and herbs, like borneol, are also as medicinal as aloes and sandal, borneol is known to be an antihyperalgesic, which means it can help in people with over active sensory experiences, mainly chronic pain people with something like autism, they are also used in the stick to aid the scent in becoming more well rounded and complex.
Again, one of my favourite aloeswood/sandalwood traditional Japanese blended incense.
Also cleaned my Incense stick plate, you should have seen it before LOL.
Also, collected as much nubs of incense I could out of all the ash that was on the plate with my tweezers, and put in the tub, gonna collect each nub as the incense finishes and build the nubs up till this is full then crush them and make powdered mixed incense that I can heat 😀
Again, one of my favourite aloeswood/sandalwood traditional Japanese blended incense.
Oh, and I am getting a tube of Seijudo Kyara Enju soon!!!
Also, collected as much nubs of incense I could out of all the ash that was on the plate with my tweezers, and put in the tub, gonna collect each nub as the incense finishes and build the nubs up till this is full then crush them and make powdered mixed incense that I can heat 😀
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Simla House
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Dr. Incense : Processed Tarakan
Clean burn, nothing acrid. Source material is obvious.
Great stick!
Clean burn, nothing acrid. Source material is obvious.
Great stick!
-Renton-
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What is Cha QI?
Maunamoku
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Tea energy; the effects on the mind and the body.
Oudamberlove
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My sample stick of Shunkohdo Kyara Houzan is all gone, but my new box just arrived.
(@$12/stick, I preferred to buy the whole box, and saved $100)
When I opened the box and smelled the contents, it screamed Green Oil🤩, a big portion of the aroma inside the box smelled just like my Shoyeido Kyara.
So I lit a stick and am very satisfied, it has easily climbed to my top 5.
(@$12/stick, I preferred to buy the whole box, and saved $100)
When I opened the box and smelled the contents, it screamed Green Oil🤩, a big portion of the aroma inside the box smelled just like my Shoyeido Kyara.
So I lit a stick and am very satisfied, it has easily climbed to my top 5.
-Renton-
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Ohh, I will message you soon about this!!!
Simla House
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Kyara Zen : Ambon Soil.
Forgot I had this!
Forgot I had this!
Oudamberlove
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Shunkohdo Kyara Houzan
Just smelling the inside of the box🤪
Just smelling the inside of the box🤪
-Renton-
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Tensei by Tennendo. I don't use these as much as I used to but they are amazing sticks, so complex as they have plentiful amounts of MULTIPLE (who knows how many and what different regions?) aloeswoods in these sticks. It is woody, with golden resinous sweetness, chocolate, caramel, an almost musky floralness to it, but definitely a floral note, but it does also seem quite musky, but that could also be the multiple different aloeswoods from possibly different regions (most likely). It smells so good before burn too it is unbelievable, it is like nectar of the Gods type smell, golden.
It has very minimal spices if any at all, pure aloes stick.
A lot of people and sellers say it is a stick, "reminiscent of Kyara". I will understand that more when I try these Kyara Enju I am getting once they become available to me soon.
It has very minimal spices if any at all, pure aloes stick.
A lot of people and sellers say it is a stick, "reminiscent of Kyara". I will understand that more when I try these Kyara Enju I am getting once they become available to me soon.
-Renton-
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Gyokushodo's Jinkoh Yosei. Highest stick in this range. Vietnamese aloeswood, sweet, nutty, creamy Indian Sandalwood, with florals and spices. The sandalwood is quite prominent, it smells like Kojurin sandalwood, very sweet, but also very creamy, spicy, and buttery. The Vietnamese aloeswood is like burning Vietnam wood, or rather, heating Vietnam wood. The aloeswood notes are quite complex to pick out of this one, this is my first box and thus I might have to buy another one and another one to really understand it. The overall notes I get are, sweet, creamy, buttery, spicy, nutty, resinous, oaty oud-y woodiness. Very complex stick.
I am unsure about it, do I like it or not? Hmm, possibly. I think the florals that are added to it give it a nice smell and the aloeswood (sticks are right next to me) scent when I waft some in my face, has notes of, hints of leather and sourness, as well as sweet.
It is a lovely stick, just very... different from the other in this range, that use practically the same ingredients, all Vietnamese aloeswood, but of course, different qualities.
NOTE: Not every stick in this range has aloeswood, only ones that say "Jinkoh".
I am unsure about it, do I like it or not? Hmm, possibly. I think the florals that are added to it give it a nice smell and the aloeswood (sticks are right next to me) scent when I waft some in my face, has notes of, hints of leather and sourness, as well as sweet.
It is a lovely stick, just very... different from the other in this range, that use practically the same ingredients, all Vietnamese aloeswood, but of course, different qualities.
NOTE: Not every stick in this range has aloeswood, only ones that say "Jinkoh".
-Renton-
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Prof. Incense Soil Ambon Agarwood. Lovely sticks made my KZs student, such a gift to give to someone, your one of a kind incense making skills. This 1 stick I have on now will last for around 15-25mins roughly. The scent is definitely agarwood. Soil wood 100%. Notes of [pleasant] soilness, in a nice earthy way, quite a nice sweet but somewhat sour oudy-ness, and has good grounding and calming effects on the sprit.
Cant wait to try the Nha Trang, but KyaraZen told me that once the Soil Ambon are out of stock, they may be out of stock forever.
Cant wait to try the Nha Trang, but KyaraZen told me that once the Soil Ambon are out of stock, they may be out of stock forever.
-Renton-
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Start of the day is some Byakudan Kobunboku by Baieido, similar to Byakudan Kokoh but a more affordable option, and somewhat striped down version they say. Not sure if it is Mysore sandalwood used in Byakudan Kobunboku, but I am willing to wager that the longer I have had this box and the amount of sticks I have used and smelled (and having access to over 350grams of Mysore Sandalwood powder and Mysore heartwood, the stuff that Athsmos used for his oil, and have of course smelled real premium quality black meat Mysore sticks from KZ and actually have a glass jar of powdered version of his limited edition black meat + ambergris sticks from sticks I accidentally broke), it is highly likely it is quality Mysore sandalwood used, with only a small amount of spices and herbs to uplift it to the stature of something like the discontinued Byakudan Kokoh. Sawayaka Kobunboku is basically Byakudan with less sandalwood and more spice and herbs, it actually does give it a more dark, almost resinous, sensual appeal last time I tried them, I need to get those again at some point and compare again, but one thing I do remember early into my days of aloes/agarwood and especially in stick version, I thought Sawayaka had aloeswood in it, lol, it doesn't, it is just a less Mysore sandalwood stick with more spices and herbs, version of Byakudan Kobunboku.
Anyway, the more I use Byakudan Kobunboku the more I love it, it has got that sand wood note, kind of like a dry but also buttery biscuit at the bottom of a cheesecake note, has a sharp sweet/spice note, also a soft rounded sweet almost "spicy" creamy note, that is sometimes "spicy/sweet or sweet/spicy". I don't think I would recommend anyone the more "advanced" Kobunboku sticks (Tokusen and especially Kaden, but if you dont want to start of with Kobunboku, start off with Byakudan and Sawayaka then Tokusen) if they aren't at least somewhat familiar with Japanese sticks (and even then it takes quite a while, unless you actively do stick Kodo with them for a while, I didn't, I use these like daily sticks so maybe that's why it took me so long to finally understand them), as even me starting out with these sticks I got nose tricked (refer back to me actually thinking I smelled aloeswood in Sawayaka Kobunboku, note: this was way before I even knew what this forum was, let alone become a member). If you were to start off with any Kobunboku stick in this range it, I didn't do this because I didn't like the sound of them which is just the simple, Kobunboku stick "Plum Blossom", but I learned the hard way and started Kobunboku with Tokusen and Kaden, now I have finished Kaden 170 sticks and have bought another box of 170 and want to finally understand them and go through them in a more mindful manner this time, will probably be like the Tokusen where the first box I could understand quite well, but I didn't realise that I was missing out until I got a second box and I finally "got it". I also think I finally, "got it", because I was already in the world of raw aromatics, like raw sandalwoods, raw aloeswoods, and also burnt WAY more Japanese sticks than I had when I got my first box of these range of sticks, that's why I think I am understanding this box of Byakudan on my first box ever... more refined nose? IDK, Japanese incense can be insane because traditional Japan incense has so much ingredients, like for example, how can I understand Kaden Kobunboku first time (even with 170 stick) with 20-25 or more aromatic ingredients? So, I am gonna see how I am with more experience in Japanese incense with Kaden (which I do like, but will probably pick out more, and stronger notes this time).
Anyway, this Incense of the day post went on a tangent, sorry guys lol.
Anyway, this will be the last time I talk about Byakudan Kobunboku by Baieido. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!. It is a very, very good Mysore Sandalwood stick, and for the price (£10.99 for 80sticks) its a bargain.
Anyway, the more I use Byakudan Kobunboku the more I love it, it has got that sand wood note, kind of like a dry but also buttery biscuit at the bottom of a cheesecake note, has a sharp sweet/spice note, also a soft rounded sweet almost "spicy" creamy note, that is sometimes "spicy/sweet or sweet/spicy". I don't think I would recommend anyone the more "advanced" Kobunboku sticks (Tokusen and especially Kaden, but if you dont want to start of with Kobunboku, start off with Byakudan and Sawayaka then Tokusen) if they aren't at least somewhat familiar with Japanese sticks (and even then it takes quite a while, unless you actively do stick Kodo with them for a while, I didn't, I use these like daily sticks so maybe that's why it took me so long to finally understand them), as even me starting out with these sticks I got nose tricked (refer back to me actually thinking I smelled aloeswood in Sawayaka Kobunboku, note: this was way before I even knew what this forum was, let alone become a member). If you were to start off with any Kobunboku stick in this range it, I didn't do this because I didn't like the sound of them which is just the simple, Kobunboku stick "Plum Blossom", but I learned the hard way and started Kobunboku with Tokusen and Kaden, now I have finished Kaden 170 sticks and have bought another box of 170 and want to finally understand them and go through them in a more mindful manner this time, will probably be like the Tokusen where the first box I could understand quite well, but I didn't realise that I was missing out until I got a second box and I finally "got it". I also think I finally, "got it", because I was already in the world of raw aromatics, like raw sandalwoods, raw aloeswoods, and also burnt WAY more Japanese sticks than I had when I got my first box of these range of sticks, that's why I think I am understanding this box of Byakudan on my first box ever... more refined nose? IDK, Japanese incense can be insane because traditional Japan incense has so much ingredients, like for example, how can I understand Kaden Kobunboku first time (even with 170 stick) with 20-25 or more aromatic ingredients? So, I am gonna see how I am with more experience in Japanese incense with Kaden (which I do like, but will probably pick out more, and stronger notes this time).
Anyway, this Incense of the day post went on a tangent, sorry guys lol.
Anyway, this will be the last time I talk about Byakudan Kobunboku by Baieido. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!. It is a very, very good Mysore Sandalwood stick, and for the price (£10.99 for 80sticks) its a bargain.
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Mousse de Chene
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LaoShan Monkoh 2014 - Rising Phoenix.
Jk received these beauties from a Chinese artisan back in the day & luckily he’s passing some on to us.
It’s hard to imagine Sandalwood incense sticks gets any better than this! I read one reviewer describe these as “the Kyara of Sandalwood” haha I agree tho.
Just by smelling the sticks from the tube, you’re greeted by the most buttery-creamy Mysore signature. Upon lighting them, the air is permeated by butter & cream, vanilla, white florals. A deeply woody, warm spicy aroma. The oil content must’ve been very high in the unprocessed wood, because the aroma fills the room & stays for a long time. Lower grade Sandalwood has the tendency to be light & fade too quickly.
Expensive, but you get exactly what you pay for.
Jk received these beauties from a Chinese artisan back in the day & luckily he’s passing some on to us.
It’s hard to imagine Sandalwood incense sticks gets any better than this! I read one reviewer describe these as “the Kyara of Sandalwood” haha I agree tho.
Just by smelling the sticks from the tube, you’re greeted by the most buttery-creamy Mysore signature. Upon lighting them, the air is permeated by butter & cream, vanilla, white florals. A deeply woody, warm spicy aroma. The oil content must’ve been very high in the unprocessed wood, because the aroma fills the room & stays for a long time. Lower grade Sandalwood has the tendency to be light & fade too quickly.
Expensive, but you get exactly what you pay for.
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