Pretty incense dishes from Karacotta: "The ceramic Desert Incense Dish is the perfect piece to add to any home, office, or studio decor! Use this gorgeous pottery to burn Palo Santo Cone Incense, and immediately feel yourself relax, as the incredible aroma fills the air and negative energy dissipates." 2" diameter, $16 each at Beautyhabit.
Last Sunday, I took a late-afternoon walk and noticed a wonderful incense fragrance “accord” in the air, a mix of spring flowers (magnolias, English laurel, Oregon grape) and the scent of wood burning in fireplaces. I decided to wear an incense perfume the next day and selected a sample vial of Heeley Eau Sacrée.
I love the ritual of burning incense and watching curlicues of incense smoke move through my house. Prime spots for placing incense? In front of religious images and statues, especially my Ayutthaya crowned Buddha that I “adopted” in Chiang Mai, Indra from Nepal and many Ganesh statues from India (one given to me on my wedding day). I light a candle or burn incense on days a person or animal I loved was born…or died. Incense feels important, not simply a product to scent a space…
Oedo-Koh's Tokyo Cherry Blossom incense: "Savor the joy of spring time, when young and old alike feel the allure of the outdoors, with the sweet, gentle scent of cherry blossoms. The custom of cherry blossom viewing took hold during the Edo Period. The somei-yoshino cherry tree, seen in groves throughout Japan today, was originally an ornamental garden variety raised in the village of Somei near Edo. Cherry blossom viewings were also an opportunity for Edo denizens to meet one another, present themselves, and perform; matching fancy kimonos were worn for the occasion, and people sang and danced to celebrate the coming of Spring." $18 for 60 sticks at Smallflower.
For some people it may still be the signature scent of High Mass, but for others it’s now l’eau de spa: the first thing you sniff when sinking into a massage bed or crossing the threshold of Manhattan’s buzzy new private club The Well, where the air is infused with a frankincense aroma custom crafted by Michelle Gagnon, of premium essential oil house Enfleurage.
— Read more in Why Frankincense Is Suddenly So Smoking Hot at Town & Country.
From Juniper Ridge, a holiday gift set with Christmas Fir body wash (236 ml), essential oil (5 ml) and incense (20 sticks). "Perhaps no scent can transport us like that of Christmas trees – that unmistakable dank, resinous scent of needles and sap. These products’ aromatic essence is a blend of sustainably wildharvested Fir and Pine essential oils that captures the sensory spirit of the holidays." $34 at Juniper Ridge.