Incense & Burners Gifts & Fragrance

A thin line of smoke rises from a bamboo tube, and the room changes. Incense, incense tubes, holders and burners here come mostly from China, with pure agarwood and sandalwood incense and perfumed sticks. Incense tubes are made of carved bamboo and blackwood, some with screw tops or bone trim. Carved wooden box-and-holder sets take the shapes of frogs, lotus flowers and lutes, alongside pagoda tower and emperor’s hat holders.

Personal incense tool kits in silver hold the small implements used to prepare powdered incense, an old scholar’s pastime, and a travel box comes with eight grams of agarwood. Agarwood, prized across Asia for centuries, burns deep and resinous, and sandalwood softer and sweeter. Set a tube on a desk or a box holder on a bedside table, and open a window an inch. More burners and censers live under Religious and Ritual. Few rituals are this easy to keep.