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Mohong Rose Incense
Incense & Tea
Incense and tea have a long shared history, as tea drinkers throughout the ages have found the calming scent and natural beauty of the smoke to fit right in alongside their tea sessions.
Buddhist and Daoist monks – many of them tea drinkers – have also found that the scent of incense helps maintain mindfulness by alerting oneself to the scent of their surroundings, and putting the mind in a state of calming focus.
Whether paired with tea or simply lit to infuse a room with scent, this incense sampler is a perfect starting point for people interested in quality Chinese incense made with all-natural ingredients and no chemical additives.
What’s in the box?
Mohong Rose Incense
Scent of Yunnan’s most fragrant varietal of rose flower
Each Mohong Rose incense pack contains 5g (about 27 sticks) of incense, inside a slide-off box which includes an incense holder.
Each incense pack also contains a small metal pick, to clean any unburned nubs of incense of the incense holder.
Each stick is weighed so as to burn for 20 minutes, meaning each pack provides hours of burn time.
What’s it smell like?
It turns out it’s hard to explain what something smells like.
Our incense blender, Zhang Laoshi, recommended that we simply share the feeling in our bodies after smelling the incense. So, taking his advice, Jesse, alongside Marissa (Jesse’s assistant) and Angel and Claudene (our daughter-and-mother customer service team) shared their feels below:
Jesse: True-rose scent, like walking under the trellis of roses at the Huntington Gardens, or eating a rose cake in Yunnan
Marissa: Has an English garden by the sea vibe to it
Angel: Smells like *actual* wild roses, not “rose scent”. Specifically wild beach roses. Very Pleasant. What I imagine a cunning PinFei 嬪妃 would use to entice the Qianlong emperor
Claudene: I have a patch of Beach Rose bushes in my field. This smells almost exactly like walking past them. Deep, full, surrounded by Roses!
Jesse Says:
When I lived in China, I saw – and smelled -- incense all around, whether it’s lingering in the halls of temples, or displayed on altars in peoples’ homes.
Incense is a tricky product though. It comes in many scents and at various prices, from giant boxes for a dollar to hundreds of dollars per gram. How would I know what I’m getting, and what’s really in it?
Luckily, through my tea connections, I was able to get in touch with a 70-year old incense company whose master blenders patiently taught me the core principles of incense – quality ingredients, no chemical scents, and using only natural plant-based binders to allow the various scented powders to be pressed into sticks.
This sampler is the one I would want to buy myself but could never find on the market, even in China.
It combines some of my personal favorite classic scents (sandalwood) alongside my favorite higher-end Chinese coveted scents (agarwood, also known as “oud”).
It also has a few familiar scents (like rose) and some of the proprietary blends put together by our incense guys (like “Etheria”).
I’m a tea guy, not an incense guy, but as a tea guy who’s smelled his share of incense, I approached putting this sampler together the same way I approach my tea samplers: variety, quality, and as much value as I can get while maintaining those first two.
Come Back For Your Favorites!
Checkout all 8 of our new scents (available as individual packs) or try the Sampler Pack to see what you like!
The package is perfectly sized to sit alongside a tea table or packed in a bag so you can have a sensory break in any environment.
Jesse Says: I keep an eight incense sampler in my travel backpack, so while on the road I can light incense as an evening ritual and feel a little bit more grounded while traveling.
Mohong Rose Incense
Incense & Tea
Incense and tea have a long shared history, as tea drinkers throughout the ages have found the calming scent and natural beauty of the smoke to fit right in alongside their tea sessions.
Buddhist and Daoist monks – many of them tea drinkers – have also found that the scent of incense helps maintain mindfulness by alerting oneself to the scent of their surroundings, and putting the mind in a state of calming focus.
Whether paired with tea or simply lit to infuse a room with scent, this incense sampler is a perfect starting point for people interested in quality Chinese incense made with all-natural ingredients and no chemical additives.
What’s in the box?
Mohong Rose Incense
Scent of Yunnan’s most fragrant varietal of rose flower
Each Mohong Rose incense pack contains 5g (about 27 sticks) of incense, inside a slide-off box which includes an incense holder.
Each incense pack also contains a small metal pick, to clean any unburned nubs of incense of the incense holder.
Each stick is weighed so as to burn for 20 minutes, meaning each pack provides hours of burn time.
What’s it smell like?
It turns out it’s hard to explain what something smells like.
Our incense blender, Zhang Laoshi, recommended that we simply share the feeling in our bodies after smelling the incense. So, taking his advice, Jesse, alongside Marissa (Jesse’s assistant) and Angel and Claudene (our daughter-and-mother customer service team) shared their feels below:
Jesse: True-rose scent, like walking under the trellis of roses at the Huntington Gardens, or eating a rose cake in Yunnan
Marissa: Has an English garden by the sea vibe to it
Angel: Smells like *actual* wild roses, not “rose scent”. Specifically wild beach roses. Very Pleasant. What I imagine a cunning PinFei 嬪妃 would use to entice the Qianlong emperor
Claudene: I have a patch of Beach Rose bushes in my field. This smells almost exactly like walking past them. Deep, full, surrounded by Roses!
Jesse Says:
When I lived in China, I saw – and smelled -- incense all around, whether it’s lingering in the halls of temples, or displayed on altars in peoples’ homes.
Incense is a tricky product though. It comes in many scents and at various prices, from giant boxes for a dollar to hundreds of dollars per gram. How would I know what I’m getting, and what’s really in it?
Luckily, through my tea connections, I was able to get in touch with a 70-year old incense company whose master blenders patiently taught me the core principles of incense – quality ingredients, no chemical scents, and using only natural plant-based binders to allow the various scented powders to be pressed into sticks.
This sampler is the one I would want to buy myself but could never find on the market, even in China.
It combines some of my personal favorite classic scents (sandalwood) alongside my favorite higher-end Chinese coveted scents (agarwood, also known as “oud”).
It also has a few familiar scents (like rose) and some of the proprietary blends put together by our incense guys (like “Etheria”).
I’m a tea guy, not an incense guy, but as a tea guy who’s smelled his share of incense, I approached putting this sampler together the same way I approach my tea samplers: variety, quality, and as much value as I can get while maintaining those first two.
Come Back For Your Favorites!
Checkout all 8 of our new scents (available as individual packs) or try the Sampler Pack to see what you like!
The package is perfectly sized to sit alongside a tea table or packed in a bag so you can have a sensory break in any environment.
Jesse Says: I keep an eight incense sampler in my travel backpack, so while on the road I can light incense as an evening ritual and feel a little bit more grounded while traveling.
Mohong Rose Incense
Incense & Tea
Incense and tea have a long shared history, as tea drinkers throughout the ages have found the calming scent and natural beauty of the smoke to fit right in alongside their tea sessions.
Buddhist and Daoist monks – many of them tea drinkers – have also found that the scent of incense helps maintain mindfulness by alerting oneself to the scent of their surroundings, and putting the mind in a state of calming focus.
Whether paired with tea or simply lit to infuse a room with scent, this incense sampler is a perfect starting point for people interested in quality Chinese incense made with all-natural ingredients and no chemical additives.
What’s in the box?
Mohong Rose Incense
Scent of Yunnan’s most fragrant varietal of rose flower
Each Mohong Rose incense pack contains 5g (about 27 sticks) of incense, inside a slide-off box which includes an incense holder.
Each incense pack also contains a small metal pick, to clean any unburned nubs of incense of the incense holder.
Each stick is weighed so as to burn for 20 minutes, meaning each pack provides hours of burn time.
What’s it smell like?
It turns out it’s hard to explain what something smells like.
Our incense blender, Zhang Laoshi, recommended that we simply share the feeling in our bodies after smelling the incense. So, taking his advice, Jesse, alongside Marissa (Jesse’s assistant) and Angel and Claudene (our daughter-and-mother customer service team) shared their feels below:
Jesse: True-rose scent, like walking under the trellis of roses at the Huntington Gardens, or eating a rose cake in Yunnan
Marissa: Has an English garden by the sea vibe to it
Angel: Smells like *actual* wild roses, not “rose scent”. Specifically wild beach roses. Very Pleasant. What I imagine a cunning PinFei 嬪妃 would use to entice the Qianlong emperor
Claudene: I have a patch of Beach Rose bushes in my field. This smells almost exactly like walking past them. Deep, full, surrounded by Roses!
Jesse Says:
When I lived in China, I saw – and smelled -- incense all around, whether it’s lingering in the halls of temples, or displayed on altars in peoples’ homes.
Incense is a tricky product though. It comes in many scents and at various prices, from giant boxes for a dollar to hundreds of dollars per gram. How would I know what I’m getting, and what’s really in it?
Luckily, through my tea connections, I was able to get in touch with a 70-year old incense company whose master blenders patiently taught me the core principles of incense – quality ingredients, no chemical scents, and using only natural plant-based binders to allow the various scented powders to be pressed into sticks.
This sampler is the one I would want to buy myself but could never find on the market, even in China.
It combines some of my personal favorite classic scents (sandalwood) alongside my favorite higher-end Chinese coveted scents (agarwood, also known as “oud”).
It also has a few familiar scents (like rose) and some of the proprietary blends put together by our incense guys (like “Etheria”).
I’m a tea guy, not an incense guy, but as a tea guy who’s smelled his share of incense, I approached putting this sampler together the same way I approach my tea samplers: variety, quality, and as much value as I can get while maintaining those first two.
Come Back For Your Favorites!
Checkout all 8 of our new scents (available as individual packs) or try the Sampler Pack to see what you like!
The package is perfectly sized to sit alongside a tea table or packed in a bag so you can have a sensory break in any environment.
Jesse Says: I keep an eight incense sampler in my travel backpack, so while on the road I can light incense as an evening ritual and feel a little bit more grounded while traveling.
Mohong Rose Incense
Incense & Tea
Incense and tea have a long shared history, as tea drinkers throughout the ages have found the calming scent and natural beauty of the smoke to fit right in alongside their tea sessions.
Buddhist and Daoist monks – many of them tea drinkers – have also found that the scent of incense helps maintain mindfulness by alerting oneself to the scent of their surroundings, and putting the mind in a state of calming focus.
Whether paired with tea or simply lit to infuse a room with scent, this incense sampler is a perfect starting point for people interested in quality Chinese incense made with all-natural ingredients and no chemical additives.
What’s in the box?
Mohong Rose Incense
Scent of Yunnan’s most fragrant varietal of rose flower
Each Mohong Rose incense pack contains 5g (about 27 sticks) of incense, inside a slide-off box which includes an incense holder.
Each incense pack also contains a small metal pick, to clean any unburned nubs of incense of the incense holder.
Each stick is weighed so as to burn for 20 minutes, meaning each pack provides hours of burn time.
What’s it smell like?
It turns out it’s hard to explain what something smells like.
Our incense blender, Zhang Laoshi, recommended that we simply share the feeling in our bodies after smelling the incense. So, taking his advice, Jesse, alongside Marissa (Jesse’s assistant) and Angel and Claudene (our daughter-and-mother customer service team) shared their feels below:
Jesse: True-rose scent, like walking under the trellis of roses at the Huntington Gardens, or eating a rose cake in Yunnan
Marissa: Has an English garden by the sea vibe to it
Angel: Smells like *actual* wild roses, not “rose scent”. Specifically wild beach roses. Very Pleasant. What I imagine a cunning PinFei 嬪妃 would use to entice the Qianlong emperor
Claudene: I have a patch of Beach Rose bushes in my field. This smells almost exactly like walking past them. Deep, full, surrounded by Roses!
Jesse Says:
When I lived in China, I saw – and smelled -- incense all around, whether it’s lingering in the halls of temples, or displayed on altars in peoples’ homes.
Incense is a tricky product though. It comes in many scents and at various prices, from giant boxes for a dollar to hundreds of dollars per gram. How would I know what I’m getting, and what’s really in it?
Luckily, through my tea connections, I was able to get in touch with a 70-year old incense company whose master blenders patiently taught me the core principles of incense – quality ingredients, no chemical scents, and using only natural plant-based binders to allow the various scented powders to be pressed into sticks.
This sampler is the one I would want to buy myself but could never find on the market, even in China.
It combines some of my personal favorite classic scents (sandalwood) alongside my favorite higher-end Chinese coveted scents (agarwood, also known as “oud”).
It also has a few familiar scents (like rose) and some of the proprietary blends put together by our incense guys (like “Etheria”).
I’m a tea guy, not an incense guy, but as a tea guy who’s smelled his share of incense, I approached putting this sampler together the same way I approach my tea samplers: variety, quality, and as much value as I can get while maintaining those first two.
Come Back For Your Favorites!
Checkout all 8 of our new scents (available as individual packs) or try the Sampler Pack to see what you like!
The package is perfectly sized to sit alongside a tea table or packed in a bag so you can have a sensory break in any environment.
Jesse Says: I keep an eight incense sampler in my travel backpack, so while on the road I can light incense as an evening ritual and feel a little bit more grounded while traveling.
Mohong Rose Incense
Incense & Tea
Incense and tea have a long shared history, as tea drinkers throughout the ages have found the calming scent and natural beauty of the smoke to fit right in alongside their tea sessions.
Buddhist and Daoist monks – many of them tea drinkers – have also found that the scent of incense helps maintain mindfulness by alerting oneself to the scent of their surroundings, and putting the mind in a state of calming focus.
Whether paired with tea or simply lit to infuse a room with scent, this incense sampler is a perfect starting point for people interested in quality Chinese incense made with all-natural ingredients and no chemical additives.
What’s in the box?
Mohong Rose Incense
Scent of Yunnan’s most fragrant varietal of rose flower
Each Mohong Rose incense pack contains 5g (about 27 sticks) of incense, inside a slide-off box which includes an incense holder.
Each incense pack also contains a small metal pick, to clean any unburned nubs of incense of the incense holder.
Each stick is weighed so as to burn for 20 minutes, meaning each pack provides hours of burn time.
What’s it smell like?
It turns out it’s hard to explain what something smells like.
Our incense blender, Zhang Laoshi, recommended that we simply share the feeling in our bodies after smelling the incense. So, taking his advice, Jesse, alongside Marissa (Jesse’s assistant) and Angel and Claudene (our daughter-and-mother customer service team) shared their feels below:
Jesse: True-rose scent, like walking under the trellis of roses at the Huntington Gardens, or eating a rose cake in Yunnan
Marissa: Has an English garden by the sea vibe to it
Angel: Smells like *actual* wild roses, not “rose scent”. Specifically wild beach roses. Very Pleasant. What I imagine a cunning PinFei 嬪妃 would use to entice the Qianlong emperor
Claudene: I have a patch of Beach Rose bushes in my field. This smells almost exactly like walking past them. Deep, full, surrounded by Roses!
Jesse Says:
When I lived in China, I saw – and smelled -- incense all around, whether it’s lingering in the halls of temples, or displayed on altars in peoples’ homes.
Incense is a tricky product though. It comes in many scents and at various prices, from giant boxes for a dollar to hundreds of dollars per gram. How would I know what I’m getting, and what’s really in it?
Luckily, through my tea connections, I was able to get in touch with a 70-year old incense company whose master blenders patiently taught me the core principles of incense – quality ingredients, no chemical scents, and using only natural plant-based binders to allow the various scented powders to be pressed into sticks.
This sampler is the one I would want to buy myself but could never find on the market, even in China.
It combines some of my personal favorite classic scents (sandalwood) alongside my favorite higher-end Chinese coveted scents (agarwood, also known as “oud”).
It also has a few familiar scents (like rose) and some of the proprietary blends put together by our incense guys (like “Etheria”).
I’m a tea guy, not an incense guy, but as a tea guy who’s smelled his share of incense, I approached putting this sampler together the same way I approach my tea samplers: variety, quality, and as much value as I can get while maintaining those first two.
Come Back For Your Favorites!
Checkout all 8 of our new scents (available as individual packs) or try the Sampler Pack to see what you like!
The package is perfectly sized to sit alongside a tea table or packed in a bag so you can have a sensory break in any environment.
Jesse Says: I keep an eight incense sampler in my travel backpack, so while on the road I can light incense as an evening ritual and feel a little bit more grounded while traveling.
