Topic: “Incense.”

Taking a look at Dragon’s Blood, Frankincense & Rose, King of Loban, Royal Frankincense, Royal Myrrh, and Sacred Frankincense by Bhagwan Incense.

Taking a look at Bhagwan Incense and the brand’s Absolute Oudh, Oudh, Oudh Majestic, Royal Oudh, Royal Mysore Sandalwood, and Sandalwood Origins sticks.

If this isn’t any good, I’m giving up on Wild Berry once and for all.

Another attempt at making a sweet-agarwood style incense stick using agarwood skins.

Reviewing Hippy Hug, Lavender Française, and White Sage Mage from The World Makes Scents.

You know I had to try a chewing gum made from incense ingredients.

Some thoughts on how we think about quality, how incense pricing relates to it, snobbery, and my service-industry past.

Making a sweet-agarwood style incense stick using agarwood skins.

Reviewing Abundance / Oud from Flora Botanical Incense and talking about agarwood in combustible incense.

Reviewing the Amber Deluxe incense sticks from PremaNature.

Reviewing the Vanille-Benzoe incense sticks from Faircense.

Putting it all together.

I review $40 worth of Wild Berry incense in an evening.

The difference between critique and denigration.

New sticks, faster build development, percolating, and something coming soon?

Taking a look at Boy Vienna’s viral cigarette incense sticks.

Checking out some sticks from a local store selling Japanese incense.

Florals are a notoriously difficult incense category. Today I’m taking a look at Yi-Xin Craft Incense’s Pikake Jasmine sticks.

Whole Foods replaced Shoyeido with these sticks from Auroville. I cannot fathom why.

It’s only natural that the pyrotechnics obsessed neue deutsche härte act would release a line of incense cones. Today I’m taking a look.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of manual incense stick extruders.

How our expectations influence the way we experience fragrance and where natural incense fits in.

A quick how-to on making Japanese style incense.

Reducing off-notes and improving resin fragrance in combustible incense by dissolving gum content.

I make a fresh, sweet, and green incense build reminiscent of the flavor of white tea.

I finally figure out how to make myrrh work in a composition.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dave at The World Makes Scents studio in Bridgeport, Chicago.

An attempt at a lavender incense stick goes remarkably well thanks to an unusual technique.

Reviewing Kheoun’s Blend by The World Makes Scents.

I make a simple, three-ingredient, red cedar and frankincense batch of incense sticks.

My grand designs crumble as I fail to make the most delicious batch of incense ever devised.

Learning about patience through an incense-making miscalculation.