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In Reply to: RE: Incense Poll Time: What do you like? posted by Winston Smith on February 23, 2015 at 20:25:53
That was an enjoyable read. Sparked an interest in the Nippon-Kodo Cedarwood.
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...I just wanted to add I went to a website called "Olfactory Rescue Service" and discovered that incense reviewers are just as tweaky as audiophools, and the levels of complexity and discernment exhibited is truly impressive. He pooh-poohs the lower Nippon-Kodo line as 'plebian' and 'common', and extolls the virtues of nearly $500 a box incense!
Wow. $500 a box for incense.
Now this guy REALLY sounds like an audiophool!
And then he proves it beyond a doubt, that HE'S ONE OF US, when he compares cheaper incense to listening to digital sound in the early 80's, as being harsh, annoying and uninvolving. Ouch!
Well, fuck him. I like N-K's el cheapo "Morning Star" incense line. Not afraid to admit it.
But I will be moving (slowly) up the ladder, incense-wise. I got my wife to go along with semi-expensive stereo gear, maybe expensive incense will also be something that slowly nets me in its clutches.
But right now, I'll be a simple plebe and happily enjoy my 'cheap' Japanese incenses that, to my horribly uneducated nose, smell very nice and are worth every penny.
Hope that N-K "Cedarwood" works out nicely for you, Craiger56.
Smell well!
Cheers,
WS
that we get at World Market. Champaka, Champaka Flora , Nag Champa and a couple of others that we are out of right now. Usually light one stick at a time after dinner around the time I turn on the Mac Mini and the Ipad Air and the stereo. We will burn 2 or 3 sticks a night...
When I lived in the tropics we burned mosquito coils!!
I'll order some of that Nippon-Kodo incense, thanks....
Edits: 02/24/15
....... how you got all those self-immolating mosquitoes to coil up for you to burn them! Usually they fly around, buzzing and swarming, sucking our blood and ignoring our requests to stop, and they absolutely NEVER let us burn them. They are quite willful around us, to be honest, and rarely obliging. You are a lucky man, LWR. ;-)
Have fun with that N-K stuff. It's reasonably priced and lovely smelling. We burn around 4-8 sticks throughout a day, and I can do around 6 sticks a night in the Music Room, if I'm in there for a while. Our windows are usually cracked open some, so things dissipate quickly, sometimes too quickly. But better that than lingering too long, I suppose.
Life is short, lungs are for using (and abusing, within reason, of course.) I'm sure none of this is healthful, but I don't care. The uplift I get when those fragrances waft by, is really a wonderful feeling. I think aroma therapy is useful. This is my personal aroma therapy, on the cheap, as usual.
Cheers!
WS
PS-
Keep the COTD pics coming. Even if I don't post for each, I love them all and they always brighten my visits here to AA. Way cool! :-)
the sense of smell triggers the strongest memory recalls....If I smell a gardenia I immediately can visualize dancing with my teen age GF back in the day when I could smell Jungle Gardenia perfume on her neck...
Then there was Ozium.....which ...if I smelled it now it would likely trigger a case of the munchies.
"Spray it on the floor where the bong water spilled, the law smells this, we're going...Downtownnn!"
Bong water, nastiest reek on da planet!
Ah, the recklessness of youth...
Later Gator,
Dave
we would spray Ozium to dissipate any tell tale odor...everyone had some in their car back then....
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