Scent No. 01
Moonlit Osmanthus
伴月木樨香
Sweet osmanthus first, then warm wood and the soft, vanilla-like resin of benzoin. For autumn evenings.
- Materials
- Golden osmanthus, agarwood accord, sandalwood, benzoin.
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Blended incense, worn on the wrist. Polished stone to follow.
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Volume I
The Scent Register
Hexiang 合香 is the Chinese craft of blending incense from several materials. Here the blends are powdered and shaped into beads by hand, to wear.
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香譜
Scent No. 02
Jasmine Snowfall
茉莉吹雪香
Small-flowered jasmine over a thread of tea, with sandalwood and agarwood beneath. The lightest of the four, and a good first one.
- Materials
- Small-flowered jasmine, agarwood accord, sandalwood, dried tea.
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Goose-Pear Canopy
鵝梨帳中香
Crisp pear first, deepening into honeyed agarwood and creamy sandalwood. For long hours of reading or work.
- Materials
- Agarwood accord, sandalwood, goose pear, Pu’er tea leaves.
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Warm and resinous: frankincense and agarwood, the green, rooty edge of chuanxiong, a little rose and a soft ambergris accord. The richest of the four.
- Materials
- Agarwood accord, sandalwood, frankincense, chuanxiong (Sichuan lovage root), rose dew, ambergris accord. The agarwood and ambergris here are accords: nothing in this blend comes from a whale.
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Volume II · 石譜
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