Incense of the Day
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Joe
Resident Artisan
I saw it on japanincense too rich for my bones.
CthulhuHoopsCereal
Oud Beginner
Joe
Resident Artisan
I bought the electric burner at a Japanase tea and incense store here in NYC.
I tried using Google Lens to translate the manual but it wasn't easy. So I wrote the owner of Tezumi Tea, Ryan, and he wrote me a nice long explanatory email. It was so useful I asked if I could post his email to me here on ouddict.com Being a great guy he said sure. So here it is. By the way he sells Agarwood like for like $22. And the censer comes with Oud, pressed incense, tweezers, etc. All of which I lost already!
The burner itself is great!
First heres his email to me. Then I'll post a link to the store. Enjoy!
“The electric censer has two different modes of operation: plugged in it will stay on for 30 minutes for sora-daki (perfuming a room) before automatically turning off, unplugged it will last 15 minutes for monkō (passing around the censer during incense ceremony and closely smelling the incense) before turning off (you can use it 6 times, for a total of 90 minutes).
“In either case, to use it, remove the cover from the top (the little plastic piece with 3 legs) and place 1 round mica plate on the heating element. On this, place your incense of choice. It comes with sandalwood (the light coloured wood labelled 白檀), aloeswood (the dark coloured wood labelled 沈香), and a neriko inspired blend (the square tablets labelled 薫物/takimono)
“To turn it on, hold the button up until the light is steady. To change the temperature, hold the button up until the light changes. There are three temperatures: blue, yellow, and red (i.e. low, medium and high). Low is for aloeswood, medium for sandalwood, high for the takimono squares (these are suggestions, you might prefer hotter or colder for each). To fine tune the temperature, the section above the line (red line on the black heaters and blue line on the white heaters) can be screwed up and down to raise and lower the mica plate in respect to the heating element.
“Generally speaking, you'll want to start colder and adjust hotter to avoid burning the incense or heating it too quickly. For aloeswood especially, start cold and you'll smell more of the delicate notes (you'll need to hold the censer up to smell it). Increasing the heat will make the aroma more potent, but if it's too hot the aroma will bubble out very quickly. The heater doesn't get hot enough to ignite the wood fibres themselves, but does heat the resin trapped within quite well.
“To turn it off, hold the button up until the light goes out.
“This instructional video, while in Japanese, might help with visualising what I wrote above:
.”
The store is called Tenzumi Tea. They sell incense and tea and all the tea drink accutraments according to their website, Yamadamatsu will be discontinuing making it.
www.tezumi.com
I tried using Google Lens to translate the manual but it wasn't easy. So I wrote the owner of Tezumi Tea, Ryan, and he wrote me a nice long explanatory email. It was so useful I asked if I could post his email to me here on ouddict.com Being a great guy he said sure. So here it is. By the way he sells Agarwood like for like $22. And the censer comes with Oud, pressed incense, tweezers, etc. All of which I lost already!
The burner itself is great!
First heres his email to me. Then I'll post a link to the store. Enjoy!
“The electric censer has two different modes of operation: plugged in it will stay on for 30 minutes for sora-daki (perfuming a room) before automatically turning off, unplugged it will last 15 minutes for monkō (passing around the censer during incense ceremony and closely smelling the incense) before turning off (you can use it 6 times, for a total of 90 minutes).
“In either case, to use it, remove the cover from the top (the little plastic piece with 3 legs) and place 1 round mica plate on the heating element. On this, place your incense of choice. It comes with sandalwood (the light coloured wood labelled 白檀), aloeswood (the dark coloured wood labelled 沈香), and a neriko inspired blend (the square tablets labelled 薫物/takimono)
“To turn it on, hold the button up until the light is steady. To change the temperature, hold the button up until the light changes. There are three temperatures: blue, yellow, and red (i.e. low, medium and high). Low is for aloeswood, medium for sandalwood, high for the takimono squares (these are suggestions, you might prefer hotter or colder for each). To fine tune the temperature, the section above the line (red line on the black heaters and blue line on the white heaters) can be screwed up and down to raise and lower the mica plate in respect to the heating element.
“Generally speaking, you'll want to start colder and adjust hotter to avoid burning the incense or heating it too quickly. For aloeswood especially, start cold and you'll smell more of the delicate notes (you'll need to hold the censer up to smell it). Increasing the heat will make the aroma more potent, but if it's too hot the aroma will bubble out very quickly. The heater doesn't get hot enough to ignite the wood fibres themselves, but does heat the resin trapped within quite well.
“To turn it off, hold the button up until the light goes out.
“This instructional video, while in Japanese, might help with visualising what I wrote above:
The store is called Tenzumi Tea. They sell incense and tea and all the tea drink accutraments according to their website, Yamadamatsu will be discontinuing making it.
Yamadamatsu - Kioka Electric Incense Heater
Kioka Electric Incense Heater
This elegant and convenient electric incense censer allows you to gently heat kōboku (aromatic woods) and other raw or pressed incense types without the use of charcoal and ash. The censer has 3 levels of heat, with the ability to further fine tune the heat by raising and lowering the mica...
www.tezumi.com
Woody69
Oud Fanatic
The stores name is Tezumi Tea and not Tenzumi Tea. Tea prices are excessive because they go through to many hands and it drives the prices up and their incense prices are standard U.S. pricing. The teaware is a bit overpriced as well. The matcha prices are absolutely ridiculous and scarcity is the bad excuse for it. I recommend buying Yamada Matsu stuff directly from Yamada Matsu in Japan and it’s about 50% cheaper.
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Obada
True Ouddict
This heater doesnt and will never smoke any wood.
Its too soft/weak to smoke any wood
Just use it for personal enjoyment (alone or give it around to guests so they can enjoy the scent closely) and maybe in small areas like a car. On the highest setting it may scent your whole car
Simla House
True Ouddict
Yi-Xin Craft Incense: Faces in Bloom : Damascus Rose Edition March 2024
Beautifully soft, perfectly expressed in this lightly powdery, semi-sweet incense by Ken.
Accompanied with his Stanford Cedar, and sustainable sandalwoods.
Beautifully soft, perfectly expressed in this lightly powdery, semi-sweet incense by Ken.
Accompanied with his Stanford Cedar, and sustainable sandalwoods.
Olfactory Nomad
Smells so Oud
Agreed, it was never meant to smoke. The top setting is 180 degrees I think, which is plenty hot for the Shin Kyara he has. I used to lie down with that heater sitting on my chest and wave the scent in. It also does work very well in the car.
Sipy
True Ouddict
What do you personally use nowadays for a bigger bubble?
Olfactory Nomad
Smells so Oud
I have a beautiful rosewood subitism from Aroma Sublime. An Agarwood currently has a great deal on the same type. OmbreAroma is also selling a decent looking sub.
Sipy
True Ouddict
It all leads back to the sub doesn't it.
Olfactory Nomad
Smells so Oud
It does. You could probably print that on a t-shirt.😛
Joe
Resident Artisan
It appears that Aroma Sublime is all out of subs. Just wrote them to find out when they'll have more. as hard as I try I can't get my Shoyeido heater to work with raw Oud materials except for their granulated incense which sadly no longer has Agarwood as an ingredient. $300 is a lot especially since I am going on disability retirement. I have to stock up my perfumer’s organ and save up for the battle with the federal government for benefits.
Joe
Olfactory Nomad
Smells so Oud
Joe
Resident Artisan
I am heating tonight (its 7:22pm in NYC time) shoyeido’s granulated incense called
It is a beautiful blend of Agarwood (mines from 2018), woods, bark, spices (thankfully not cinnamon), sandalwood, cloves, and resins. It’s deeply moving on low to medium heat though its meant to be sprinkled on charcoal. I like it right before it starts to smoke. It’s their high-end Osho-koh. A masterpiece.
Hoetsu - Rapture
It is a beautiful blend of Agarwood (mines from 2018), woods, bark, spices (thankfully not cinnamon), sandalwood, cloves, and resins. It’s deeply moving on low to medium heat though its meant to be sprinkled on charcoal. I like it right before it starts to smoke. It’s their high-end Osho-koh. A masterpiece.
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