Incense of the Day

[Olfactory Nomad]

I thought each spiral came with its own mat? Or do you pick the spirals up and put them on the mat? Never had spiral incense before

I have the large clouds which only come with the one burning mat. The smaller agar clouds etc come with individual mats.

 

[-Renton-]

I have the large clouds which only come with the one burning mat. The smaller agar clouds etc come with individual mats.

Ahh, thank you. I am getting the agar ones.

 

[iori]

Gyokushodo Kumo no sho
love this stick

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Ahh, thank you. I am getting the agar ones.

I will add though that I've also bought kynam clouds and pressed sticks from NineRegions on Aliexpress and they smell EXACTLY the same as the Kangiiten ones but at less than half the cost.

 

[Kolalid]

Tennendo - Oman Frankincense

Sweet citrusy frankincense at a great price. Fills up the room. Very clean scent. $8 for 40 sticks is a great deal and I’ll probably get a bigger box next time.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Tennendo - Oman Frankincense

Sweet citrusy frankincense at a great price. Fills up the room. Very clean scent. $8 for 40 sticks is a great deal and I’ll probably get a bigger box next time.

Where did you find a box of these for $8?

 

[-Renton-]

"Stick Kodo" or Mon-koh or "Intently listening to the stick and nothing else". Ha, because of the spikenards sedative qualities I could feel myself nodding off sometimes haha.

Anyway, I put 1 stick of Gyokushodo's Saidaikoh in my (painted) gold Japanese incense holder, on a bowl. Wafting the smoke into face and sometimes just sitting for a couple seconds and taking in the aroma. To start there is a very strong aloeswood presence I am starting to understand (this Vietnamese TANI, so Indonesian Aloeswood that has a similar scent profile to both Vietnamese and Indonesian aloeswood), notes of a very nice, strong, resin of the aloeswood, a light red coloured berries, a lot of sweetness, very, very oudy like an oud oil (but no oils used, just a description for how strong the resin note is) aloeswoodiness, and notes of musk too. Creamy sandalwood notes with a slight note of butter and sandalwood note, once that enters there is a dance between the aloeswood and the sandalwood, the sandalwood is of good quality, better than their sandalwood stick without aloeswood in this range. The aloeswood was also giving me undertones of fresh fruits, and some clear chocolate notes, with the sandalwood coming in and out and dancing with that note and making it a creamy, gourmet chocolate cream. Hints of spices that are similar to the aloeswood sticks of the Shoyeido Premium range (mild yellow curry note).

This is a beautiful stick that when listening intently and focusing on, makes it really shine. I hope the more I actively listen to this stick the more I smell it and potent it gets while just having 2-3 sticks on in the background while I am doing things.

I also think I will only write about incenses here when I am doing "Stick Kodo" or a better term would be Stick Mon-koh, and this goes for any Japanese sticks I have.

 

[Kolalid]

Where did you find a box of these for $8?

I live near the brick and mortar Japanincense store (it’s called Kohshi). At the store it’s $8, I think online they’re selling for $10.

 

[-Renton-]

I live near the brick and mortar Japanincense store (it’s called Kohshi). At the store it’s $8, I think online they’re selling for $10.

Oh and remember those ones are the 40 stick pack you got, right? Not the 450 stick box. The 450 stick box is around 80-90. Cost me £90 pounds from a big vendor for Japanese incense in the UK that I have a good relationship with and he has ordered more and more premium sticks on my guidance. The golden box is so beautiful, heck, all the 400-450 stick boxes in that Tennendo range are amazing, that even if I end up with 100 boxes in my life time of each one in that range, I am not throwing any out, I know that sounds like hoarding, but empty boxes can come in handy in this hobby!!!

 

[Kolalid]

Oh and remember those ones are the 40 stick pack you got, right? Not the 450 stick box. The 450 stick box is around 80-90. Cost me £90 pounds from a big vendor for Japanese incense in the UK that I have a good relationship with and he has ordered more and more premium sticks on my guidance. The golden box is so beautiful, heck, all the 400-450 stick boxes in that Tennendo range are amazing, that even if I end up with 100 boxes in my life time of each one in that range, I am not throwing any out, I know that sounds like hoarding, but empty boxes can come in handy in this hobby!!!

Yes I am talking about the 40 stick pack. I believe the bigger box is around 50-60 bucks in store. $8 for that would be insane haha

 

[-Renton-]

Yes I am talking about the 40 stick pack. I believe the bigger box is around 50-60 bucks in store. $8 for that would be insane haha

Yes. I havent wrote about this yet, as I am going to do more Mon koh sessions with Tensei by Tennendo and it does say in every description that it is multiple select aloeswoods, reminiscent of Kyara. I have had these sticks since before December last year and I have never done a proper mon koh (listening intently and doing nothing else and wafting the fragrant smoke in your face) and I actually got kinamic notes,albeit not WILD kinamic notes, but actually CK notes, as if they put some green CK that is of high quality in those sticks, you also get high quality normal aloeswood notes that are beautiful and similar to Cambodian wood. I need to do some more sessions to verify though, so that's why I did not post, as well as I already done an incense of the day.

 

[Kolalid]

Yes. I havent wrote about this yet, as I am going to do more Mon koh sessions with Tensei by Tennendo and it does say in every description that it is multiple select aloeswoods, reminiscent of Kyara. I have had these sticks since before December last year and I have never done a proper mon koh (listening intently and doing nothing else and wafting the fragrant smoke in your face) and I actually got kinamic notes,albeit not WILD kinamic notes, but actually CK notes, as if they put some green CK that is of high quality in those sticks, you also get high quality normal aloeswood notes that are beautiful and similar to Cambodian wood. I need to do some more sessions to verify though, so that's why I did not post, as well as I already done an incense of the day.

Nice. These are cheap too. I’ll check them out next time.

 

[-Renton-]

Nice. These are cheap too. I’ll check them out next time.

Yeah, definitely do. In the background I did not notice ANY CK notes, except for the normal notes assigned to this stick (chocolate, floral, vanillic, amber accord, woody etc), but when I done a Mon koh session with it I could smell a Green CK mintiness and I think that is also where the florals come from too, a very high quality green CK that is minty (in the CK way, not wild, but still soft and gentle, powdery etc) and lovely CK-like florals. It is funny how I got them so long ago and by eyeballing how much I have in the original box, only have 80-100 sticks left in the original box, but I also have some in a black premium Shoyeido box for the Mon-Koh sessions (as well as some snapped into tiny sticks for shorter Mon-Koh), I am thinking of using most of the stick I have left not for background usage and just Mon-Koh, and the same goes for Kukai but I will still use Kukai as an atmospheric incense too, Renzan will just be pure atmospheric aloeswood blend (rather than the Tensei and Kukai which are just aloeswood, pretty much). Next time I get Tensei, 300 of those sticks are going into Mon-Koh sessions and 150 are going into atmospheric usage.

Sorry for long, ranty like message haha.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

I live near the brick and mortar Japanincense store (it’s called Kohshi). At the store it’s $8, I think online they’re selling for $10.

What??!! How lucky are you!!??

 

[-Renton-]

Mon-koh session with Seijudo, Kyara Enju, put the stick out when I used 3 quarters of it, this size of stick when I next use it will just be in my hand instead of a holder, I think I may do this with every Enju stick, even my last full one, which I will put in the holder for 2-3 mins then hold it until I want to put it out. Anyway, I really wish I could articulate the experience of this with someone in words, but the scents, "minty, bitter, sour, salty, sweet", are more than lackluster for this stick.

But here we go. It starts off with a piercing, but soft and well rounded "mintiness" (it's hard to call it mint, but it is mint, but it is like Gods mint, it does something with your soul), and bounces around the place, often, in a seemingly disorganized way, but (IMO) these sticks are like the wild agarwood of incense sticks and normal (even if they used wild aloeswood) Japanese sticks are the plantation of incense. The disorganization is like a wild agarwood piece. I was getting notes of premium, high quality oud (the true meaning of it, wood), with the mint backbone, sourness jumping up then going into an undertone then going away, sour coming up then bitterness, bitterness going undertone then going away, then sour and sweet would mix then sour would go undertone and go away and sweet and honey notes would be left, with some florals jumping about, but because there is so many notes jumping about and being played, stopping, starting very fast but also in a very fluid way as if someone is doing a dance while high on acid, OR your on acid and you are looking at the slow fractals, the notes of the Kyara used were fast in (this) reality, but had a fluidity of slowly moving fractals.

IDK man, I am gonna try other Seijudo premium sticks when I can, they are just pure old school Vietnamese wood, and go for £50 to £80 for a tube of 15. My next Seijudo tube/sticks will be Kohshu, Fleet of Scents.

 

[iori]

Seijudo Shiragiku
its like heating old cambodian wood, such a lovely stick
Seijudo Kyara Enju
heavenly scent, the big box have amazing green kyara scent with elegance and delicate =)

 

[language scent]

Amazing sticks have not heated yet but the room temperature aroma is just EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL! Impressive! Off to burn one

 

[language scent]

Forgot to mention that they are cherry blossom sticks and I gotta say they have transported me to a planet filled with cherry blossoms and I am now sitting on a big rock my a still lake post worldwide tornado that flooded all air with cherry blossoms lol

 

[-Renton-]

Amazing sticks have not heated yet but the room temperature aroma is just EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL! Impressive! Off to burn one

Off topic, but nice skin care bro. Your hands look very soft!!!

 

[language scent]

Off topic, but nice skin care bro. Your hands look very soft!!!

must be the marble powder that helps keep hands soft