Incense of the Day

[Rai Munir]

Incense Cones: The Venture I initiated to make incense cones on my own. Today I completed it.

Ingredients:
1. Mysore Sandal Powder the one I got when billets were carved into beads.
2. Rose Petal Powder: Dried them in shade and ground them.
3. Frankincense Powder
4. Persian Saffron Strands

A hectic task was to keep pounding the ingredients for hours and for days. I could do it only for three days. Very interesting findings:
It was a Sandal scent when I mixed the ingredients with a spoon.
After five or six hours, when I was pounding and mixing with a pestle, frankincense was there.
Second day, it was a weird scent that made a bit dismayed, but I didn't give up.
Third day, it was very delicate Sandal Rose fragrance. Very delicate!

Now after making the cones (please never mind my calling these rather funny shapes cones), my fingers smell Rose Sandal.

Its taste is bitter, but I feel if its qehwa is made, that will be very aromatic.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Several days out of town with no oud or incense.
Well.....
I returned to Dr. Incense Sinking Tarakan
and Baieido Koshiboku.

Home sweet home

 

[Sproaty]

Incense Cones: The Venture I initiated to make incense cones on my own. Today I completed it.

Ingredients:
1. Mysore Sandal Powder the one I got when billets were carved into beads.
2. Rose Petal Powder: Dried them in shade and ground them.
3. Frankincense Powder
4. Persian Saffron Strands

A hectic task was to keep pounding the ingredients for hours and for days. I could do it only for three days. Very interesting findings:
It was a Sandal scent when I mixed the ingredients with a spoon.
After five or six hours, when I was pounding and mixing with a pestle, frankincense was there.
Second day, it was a weird scent that made a bit dismayed, but I didn't give up.
Third day, it was very delicate Sandal Rose fragrance. Very delicate!

Now after making the cones (please never mind my calling these rather funny shapes cones), my fingers smell Rose Sandal.

Its taste is bitter, but I feel if its qehwa is made, that will be very aromatic.

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Congrats Rai, looks great (and a lot of work!)

 

[Oudamberlove]

Kida Jinseido Hanakokonoe
Mellow and harmonious blend of agarwood, binder, sandalwood, and aromatics.
Perfect for de-stressing.

Followed it with a KZ stick
Sandalwood Saffron
It has a strong sandalwood aroma, and the saffron gives it a touch of perfume.

 

[Kabir Attars]

Alsalamualaykum brothers and sisters I tried my hand at making incense sticks and I have to say I like making bakhoor more. The blend is sandalwood, bee propolis, and rose otto India.
The scent is sweet rosey with a slight musty tobacco note from the bee propolis and a very nice sandalwood through out.

 

[Mr.P]

Propolis! That’s resin gathered by bees?

 

[Kabir Attars]

Propolis! That’s resin gathered by bees?

Yes they use it to fill in cracks in the hive...it has a raw honey animalistic tobacco note.

 

[Oudamberlove]

My nose must have been extra sensitive this morning,
I picked up the bright Kyara note in Shunkohdo Kyara Seikan, and I got fruity notes in Wu Shuang Ge Hainan.

 

[Joe King]

burning some of Feel Ouds mysore sticks today very nice

 

[Oudamberlove]

Shoyeido Go-un

Beauty in the morning.
I wish there were a perfume oil version of this scent, so I can swipe and burn. But then again, most of us ouddicts have heated oudh chips while wearing a swipe of oud. Ain’t it great

Followed with Seijudo Enju to dial-up on Kyara
Little smoke, lots of pleasure.

 

[Mr.P]

I’ve always thought tincturing a good incense would not be the worst of ideas.

 

[Oudamberlove]

I’ve always thought tincturing a good incense would not be the worst of ideas.

I have a tincture of Holy Land.
It’s around 3 years old.......good stuff!

 

[soulfoud]

Baieido Koh Shi Boku. My first experience with fabled Kyara. Words do not fully capture it. The scent is indeed complex and heavenly. It is subtle, slowly revealing itself, layer after layer. But it's more than that. I found myself sitting with the kind of composure that only comes to me during meditation. Even my son, who complains of boredom after 500 milliseconds of idle time, sat quietly with me for 20 minutes. A very special stick, and one I look forward to sitting with more in the future.

 

[Rai Munir]

Sandal Mysore, Ceylon, and Bangladeshi, Hindi and Malay Wood, Frankincense Powder on Coal

 

[Oudamberlove]

KZ Tarakan
Has similarities to Sabah profile
nice Mon Koh style

then I lit some WSG Baina
at first the Brunei came out, then the Tarakan
it’s interesting to smell multi regions in one stick

 

[Oudamberlove]

Kunmeido Asuka

Exploring this stick more.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Shunkohdo Yoshino No Haru

This stick transports me to a rural field surrounded by dried bamboo, and a fire kindled to cook the afternoon meal.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Nippon Kodo Kyara Heian

Floral notes
perfumey

 

[Joe King]

Burning some Kyara Kokoh to celebrate my Areej le Dore purchases.

 

[Rai Munir]

Ceylon, Malaysian and Sylheti Oud, and at the end a few chips of Mysore Sandalwood:

First, an alluminium foil on coal, and at the end, just coal:

Sylheti: No barn, chocolate
Malaysian: No cola
Ceylon: No pungent copper

Just Oud aroma was there, and after hours, my hand and dress are fragrant.