The Study 书房
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Pure agarwood and sandalwood, rolled by hand to thousand-year-old recipes, for the study, the living room and the bedroom of today.
Ancient recipes, for the rooms you live in today.
A palace recipe from the Southern Tang, a thousand years old.
Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang had pears steamed with agarwood and sandalwood, then burned the blend inside his bed-curtains. Sweet, soft and faintly fruity, it is the scent of an unhurried evening.
Answer five questions, and we'll find the incense for your moment.
Take the Scent QuizIn Chinese thought, all things move through fire, earth, metal, water and wood, each one feeding the next. Each blend in this series answers one of them, for a different hour of life.
— Made slowly, the way poets once made it —
No charcoal, no saltpetre, no synthetic fragrance. Only ground aromatic wood, resin and a binder of elm bark, rolled by hand and rested in the shade for seven weeks.
Aged heartwood, graded by hand and by nose.
Stone-milled to a powder fine as silk.
Joined with elm bark and spring water.
Pressed into lines, cut one by one.
Forty-nine days, away from the sun.
In Chinese, persimmon sounds like affairs: a branch of them wishes that every matter turns out well. Each box arrives with a card, its recipient's name brushed in Chinese calligraphy.
Shop Gift BoxesSet down by the poet Huang Tingjian, Song dynasty. Turn a card.
“A bright window, a clean desk, a stick of incense. This is pleasure enough.”
One letter each solar term, and 10% off your first order.