Incense

New Incense mini sticks available.

Wildberry Mini Incense - Premium Quality Fragrance Sticks - 10 for £1 -100 for £9 -500 for £42 please email us until they appear in the shopping cart system.
Pick and Mix - Each incense stick core has a unique colour or mark on the end to identify it so you can order the ones you like best by just giving us a description of the stick !

Pick n Mix | Blend 22 | Champa Flower | Cherry Vanilla | Cinnamon | Coconut | Dragon's Blood | Fairy Dust | Fantasia | Fizzy Pop | Fresh Rain | India Moon | Jasmine | Lavender | Lilac | Magic Garden | Musk | Mysteriosa | Ocean Wind | Opium | Patchouli | Peace of Mind | Peach | Pear Vanilla | Raspberry Rose | Sandalwood | Sunshine | Strawberry | Tibetan Orchid | Tranquility | Vanilla

Other currently available incenses from the shop are in hexagonal boxes containing approximately 20 sticks.

Cones are available in

• Patchouli
• Green Apple
• Frankincense
• Coconut
• Lotus
• Meditation
• Night Queen
• Rose
• Strawberry
• Vanilla
• Sandalwood
• Lavender
• Nag Champa
• Super Hit
• Frankincense & Myrrh
• White Musk

Resin and Powdered Incense are available in:

• Dragons Blood
• Amber
• Frankincense
• Myrrh
• Vatican Blend
• Magical Blends
• Ritual Blends

All About Incense

Incense is a preparation of aromatic plant matter, often with the addition of essential oils extracted from plant or animal sources, intended to release fragrant smoke for religious, therapeutic, or aesthetic purposes as it smoulders.

In the past, Chinese and Japanese society used incense as a time keeping device in the form of incense clocks. It has been popularly used for thousands of years within India as an integral part of Hindu deity worship. Furthermore, it holds an important usage in Buddhism and, to a lesser extent, in the traditional Christian denominations.

Incense is available in numerous forms and degree of processing. However, incense can generally be separated into direct burning and indirect burning depending on how they are used.

In general, large and coarse incense tends to burn longer than finer incense, and direct burning incense requires less preparation prior to its use. Beyond these facts, preference in incense's form depends largely on culture, tradition, and personal taste. Stick incense is the most common and preferred form of incense used in Chinese and Japanese cultures, thus most of the incense produced in those countries are in stick form. In the West, due to Christianity's tie with Judaism, incense is most often burnt in the form of powder or whole lumps of incense material.

Direct burning

Also called combustible incense. When lit by a flame and then fanned out, the glowing ember on the incense will continue to smolder and burn away the rest of the incense without the continued input of heat. This class of incense is typically made of finely ground fragrant incense materials that have been bound together by a combustible binder.

Coil

Shaped into a coil, the incense is able to burn for an extended period; from hours to days.

Cone

Incense in this form burns relatively fast.

Cored stick

This form of stick incense has a supporting core of bamboo. Higher quality varieties of this form have fragrant sandalwood cores. The core is coated by a thick layer of incense material that burns away with the core. This type of incense is commonly produced by the Indians and the Chinese. When used for worship in Chinese folk religion, cored incensed sticks are sometimes known as Joss sticks.

Solid stick

This stick incense has no supporting core and is completely made of incense material. Easily broken into pieces, it allows one to determine the specific amount of incense they wish to burn. This is the most commonly produced form of incense in Japan.

To use direct burning incense, the incense is set on fire and then extinguished, so that the incense continues to glow and smoke.

Indirect burning

Also called non-combustible incense. The use of this class of incense requires a separate heat source since it does not produce an ember that burns itself. The heat is traditionally provided by charcoal or hot ash. The incense is burned by placing them directly on top of the hot coals or on a hot metal plate in the censer or thurible.

This is the most common form of incense traditionally used in the Middle East and in Christian worship. The best known incense of this type are the raw resins of frankincense and myrrh, likely due to their numerous mentions in the Christian Bible. In fact, the word for "frankincense" in many European languages also alludes to any form of incense.

Whole

The incense material is burned directly in its raw unprocessed form on top of coal embers.

Powdered or granulated: The incense material is broken down into finer bits. This incense burns quickly and provides a short period of intense smells.

Paste

The powdered or granulated incense material is mixed with a sticky and incombustible binder, such as dried fruit, honey, or a soft resin and then formed to balls or small cakes. This is seen in many incense-using cultures. Many Arabian incense, also called Bukhoor or Bakhoor, are of this type. (from wikipedia)