Do you burn incense? I know a lot of my friends do, including myself. I mostly burn incense sticks I buy from krishnas, as well as juniper branches, which make fantastic smell and smoke (one my friend is allergic to it though). I also vaporize essential oils, my favourite are fir, pine and peppermint. Burning amber creates a very pleasant smell too.
I sometimes use a scented candle or two but never incense for it was to overwhelming in odors.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I haven't for a long time. Not for any specific reason°. I'm out of the habit in large part because of the people I've lived with over the years. My personal favorite scent is something a friend and I simply call "vanillawood", or, if we're feeling silly, "sandanilla". It's a simple notion: obtain equal parts sandalwood and vanilla incense, put them inside a wood box together, and forget about them for a period of no less than six months. At some point, they start to smell the same so that you can't tell which was vanilla and which was sandalwood. At this point, the stuff is suitable for burning, and it's a wonderful scent. ____________________ Notes: ° Not for any specific reason — The reasons are myriad, but aside from the question of when to put that kind of sticky smoke into my daughter's lungs (and there are ways around that), they're all petty. For instance, my former partner, with whom I spent ten years, had this curious habit of eventually developing a dislike for any scent I liked. And then she would explain that she never liked the scent. Sandalwood, vanilla, Nag Champa, and even a number of "wood" scents that she had originally suggested. After a while, it just wasn't worth it anymore. I could very nearly believe that her entire purpose in life was to drain the joy and spiritual effect out of everything in life. Seriously. Even sex and drugs.
I can't stand incense. Never have. I burn Febreeze candles or Yankee Candle "Cut Grass" in the winter. The rest of the year, I open windows.
I can't stand Febreeze candles and Yankees Candles "Cut Grass" especially during the winter. I open the windows during winter time, the rest of the year I keep them closed. And oh boy do I love incense.
Oh, let him untwine his morose tale. Where better than a thread about incense? The scented smoke so commonly used by the melancholy to make their lives at least smell nice. Ofcourse, the tragic irony is the scent becomes associated with the unpleasantness, and so now what used to be their favourite aroma, simply reminds them of their eternal despair. They just polluted their last little oasis of happiness... *weeps* You are talking about tiassa going off topic right?
No, whenever I have smelled it burning somewhere I don't like it. I do occassionally burn scented candles.
Yes, its a common custom to light incense in the evenings in Indian homes. My favorites are sandalwood, night jasmine and mogra.
Nope, until this thread I forgot incense existed, but now I want to get some. I'll try it as soon as I find a seller ^_^
I suggest you get Indian incense. Most of the western stuff is artificially perfumed with chemicals and though they are more intense the smell is almost like from an air freshener.
I used to use copal resin, burning it on a piece of charcoal. It used to fill up my apartment like a fog. I can't stand the indian stuff, too fruity.
I have an indian Incense, Hem Champa, Masala Incense Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
You get this little packet of charcoal buttons, they are self-igniting. Once you put fire on a little part of it, the whole things sparks up and turns grey, and it gets hot. Then you put your resin on the top of it. It was traditionally used as part of the ritual when using Salvia Divinorium by the Natives of the Oaxaca region of Mexico. It's supposed to purify the area.
Try sandalwood, its not fruity. Is the one you use same as the one that the Arabs use (bakhoor?)? http://www.bakhoor.info/ Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I don't think it's the same thing. Copal is a kind of tree resin, halfway between sap and true amber.
