Pomegranate incense, Kayuragi, 40 sticks
Details
Length: 16cm
Incense burn times: approximate 25mins
Care instructions
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At a glance
- For anyone who finds most fruit incense too sweet, tart rather than sugary
- Wine-dark pomegranate settling into a soft woody base as it burns
- 40 sticks, each burning around 25 minutes, low smoke
- Comes with a small incense holder, ready to burn straight away
Most fruit incense reads as sweet from the first minute. Pomegranate takes a different route: a vivid, wine-dark tartness up front, settling into soft woods as the stick burns down, leaving something warmer and a little unexpected in the room.
Kayuragi is a modern series from Nippon Kodo, a house whose lineage traces to 1575 and the imperial court of Kyoto. The name joins kaori (fragrance) with yuragi (a gentle wavering), the way smoke drifts through a room. Each slim stick is hand-kneaded from aromatic powders, rolled and dried naturally, then burns for around 25 minutes with low, soft smoke.
Forty sticks come in the box, along with a small holder to burn them in.
Tart rather than sweet, best on a dark evening with a glass of wine.
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