I can no longer hide my love for Japanese Incenses! There's just so much I would like to talk aboout Japanese incense sticks that I've been enjoying and I just feel this need to express myself! As such, I'll be regularly writing reviews on ... [Read More...]
In the soft copy manual of the Subitism burner, there are several upgrades that was suggested, one of which was a variable power supply. The reason why each Subitism burner was not sold with a variable power supply is because of the expensive ... [Read More...]
Several incense houses in Japan have been known to create blended incense sticks based on their impression of the Ranjatai through Mon-koh. Small fragments of the Ranjatai are known to be in possession of descendants of kodo masters and big incense ... [Read More...]
Most of the agarwood powders on the market are generally made from ground up post-distilled agarwood chips, thus missing a large and important proportion of olfactory notes that could have existed in the non-distilled agarwood ... [Read More...]
Pressed Incense Tablets 印香 is a subset of Incense Printing / 香篆 and it dates back to the same period/era where incense printing was popular both in China and in Japan around the Song Dynasty / Hei-an period. The earliest evidence ... [Read More...]
To follow up on my previous post, buying incense from various shops on Rakuten Global is also an alternative, although many may neither be as well stocked nor as organized as Kohgen. There are at least three shops that I would recommend here, and ... [Read More...]
I've been getting my incenses and stuff from Japan directly for quite a while, and KohGen's one of my most favourite online shops. They have a very large product range, a reasonably easy to use checkout page, and very fast processing of your orders. ... [Read More...]
Apologies for the lack of updates for a while, Singapore was hit by some kind of bad haze due to forest fires in Indonesia, I hope the gaharu trees are still safe!! The haze was probably caused by oil palm plantation owners clearing land, forest or ... [Read More...]