Dechen Incense Tibetan Maydi Mushaad Frankincense no bamboo core

no bamboo core

not a moonstone

More serious in register than sandalwood or floral blends in the range

a pack of Ashta Sugandha Stupa incense from the Kathmandu Valley workshop (the name translates from Sanskrit as "eight fragrances")

Aventurescence is the lapidary’s word for it - light striking thousands of metal-oxide plates that settled in parallel as the feldspar crystallised

Dechen Incense Tibetan Maydi Mushaad Frankincense no bamboo coreA handrolled Tibetan tradition incense built on Himalayan botanicals, sweet resins, light florals and warming spices. The brightest of the three blends in this cluster softly sweet, with a spiced upper register. Twenty one bamboo less sticks per tube, approximately thirty minutes each. Dechen is the Tibetan term bde chen, great well being bde meaning contentment, chen meaning great. Here it is the workshop's designation for the brightest of the three