Incense of the Day

Mousse de Chene said:
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.
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Man these really do look amazing! How could you go back to anything less than?
 
So, before I even left my room when I got up this morning (apart from going into the toilet then back in my bed to go on my phone), I woke up shook myself, and thought, "hmm, I haven't burned any, Tenpyo, Peaceful Sky in a while, and I have 20 sticks of them coming from an old stock that potentially has a different recipe and amount of ingredients, and potentially so old that it could have a slight amount of Kyara in them, long shot though. So I got my bowl ready, my golden incense holder (specially for these things) with 3 different size holes, put it in the second thinnest one, so that the nub that is left is really small, like so small it cant be measured in inches (but I put it into the mixed incense glass jar I have anyway that I put all my nubs in). Anyway, it has been a while since I burned these, heck I got Tenypo and Genroku before Christmas and I still have a good few left, and I am so much more familiar with them now that I can pick out notes better and notes that I haven't smelled before.

The fragrance started off with a nice woody-oudiness, then shortly after as it burns there was notes of burning aloeswood on a coal or sub at high heat, with resin oozing out of the chips, it was very, very sweet, but in no way sickly sweet, it was soft and well rounded but also fierce in its aroma. As it burned, I got notes of sweet resinous(?) chocolate, purple berries (reminiscent of malaccensis and, hirta maybe?), and sometimes interruptions of just smokey incense that lasted only some seconds but was nice, almost gave it a genuine aloeswood wood burning feel, that jungle, harsh scent. Then it went back to the notes of, oozing resin, woody-oudiness with chocolate oozing out as well as purple berry-like notes. Near the end it was giving me light notes of beautiful powdery florals (which is the only way I can explain the scent I got), it was lovely, and perhaps some caramel. Then once it came to the end, it slowly went out in an explosion of floral, resinous, chocolate, velvety, GOOOOOOODNESSSSS.

Tenpyo, Peaceful Sky by Shoyeido in their Horin line, is fantastic, a stick that never disappoints when you actively listen to it.
 
KZ "Black Meat" with ambergris sticks. These really are divine and my first purchase of premium mysore sandalwood sticks on @Renton's suggestion. I've set the bar high with these. Burning today in memory of my father who's funeral service is today. It's been a very heavy couple of weeks organising the service myself. Will be glad when it's finished.
 
@Olfactory Nomad - Your dad must have been a good guy to raise such a kind hearted person such as yourself, I am sorry for your loss 🙁.

Right now I am burning Maunamoku's Mysore Sandalwood stick. The notes of this stick is very, very woody, in the sandalwood way, somewhat creamy/milky citrus-ness, a little dry on the wood side, but that isn't a bad thing, some sandalwoods are like that, actually, most of them are, a good dollop of butter note. Very rich and velvety.

Lovely sticks. Only thing I will say though is, @Maunamoku you should release 5.5inch sticks with the same amount of Mysore sandalwood in them with a tube of around 28-32 sticks, that would be great 😀. Small sticks are awesome when done right.
 
Thank you everyone for your condolences. My Pride of Kyoto arrived yesterday so I'm burning this right now. It really was a score as when I opened the package I realised I had bought the BIG packet of long sticks not the regular length ones. $32 AU! Sweet!
 
I have 4 Tennendo Tensei sticks on right now. Lovely aroma that just picks you up, notes of sweet chocolate, light woodiness, soft rounded powdery-like notes, super soft and light florals with some notes of light cinnamon, a little spicy but not over the top, some caramel-like notes, a golden-hue shines over it (other people must have also experienced this as the box is gold). It has a nice, soft, strong, rich, high quality, multiple and plentiful aloeswoods in them with perhaps a tiny bit of one of Tennendo's own special oils? I think this because it gives a real nice smooth, velvety wet impression, no dryness. Truly a stick of pleasure and delight, some say similar to Kyara.
 
-Renton- said:
I am getting some Kyara Enju soon by Seijudo. How are they in terms of Kyara profile and scent? Is it a true wild Kyara scent? Also what about Minorien's Fu-in Kyara?
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personally i see enju as best kyara stick out there, haven't tested everything but most of famous kyara sticks i got my hands on and i like it best followed by fugaku.
i do think the the green oil kyara used in enju is amazing the formula for enju started in 1990 and still going until now and some japanese mention they use over 60% of green oil kyara in sticks compare to many other sticks which is way less % per stick, however as always heating the wood give different experience in many levels and as i mentioned before just because there is many green oils kyars they don't really smell the same, while you can identify them as greens they differ in way or another, and if you smell what they call special pieces it differ even more.
As for Minorien's fu-in maybe i did have maybe not don't remember, i know i heated the ryugen it was nice but no where near enju or any other top kyara sticks.
 
Kyukyodo Murasakino

I get the florals, agarwood, and musk…
but so much I don’t get, a lot going on that I can’t figure out.
Overall, I just have to accept the atmosphere it creates.
 
iori said:
personally i see enju as best kyara stick out there, haven't tested everything but most of famous kyara sticks i got my hands on and i like it best followed by fugaku.
i do think the the green oil kyara used in enju is amazing the formula for enju started in 1990 and still going until now and some japanese mention they use over 60% of green oil kyara in sticks compare to many other sticks which is way less % per stick, however as always heating the wood give different experience in many levels and as i mentioned before just because there is many green oils kyars they don't really smell the same, while you can identify them as greens they differ in way or another, and if you smell what they call special pieces it differ even more.
As for Minorien's fu-in maybe i did have maybe not don't remember, i know i heated the ryugen it was nice but no where near enju or any other top kyara sticks.
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Thank you, sir. Fu-in is their "wet" range. If Enju has 60% then I would probably go out on a limb and say Fu-in has roughly 20-30% of some form of Kyara, they dont mention what type on Japanincense or the vendor I get my sticks from. He is still awaiting on the Enju to come and I think he is getting a 10 stick box and charging £150.
 
-Renton- said:
Thank you, sir. Fu-in is their "wet" range. If Enju has 60% then I would probably go out on a limb and say Fu-in has roughly 20-30% of some form of Kyara, they dont mention what type on Japanincense or the vendor I get my sticks from. He is still awaiting on the Enju to come and I think he is getting a 10 stick box and charging £150.
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fu-in? it doesn't have that, if im being generous its probably 2-3%.
 
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