It arrived looking like it had fallen off a very expensive coat. We kept it anyway — and then found out it is rather better at its job than it lets on.
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Japan has three classical arts of refinement. Two are famous in the West: tea and flowers. The third is incense, and it has been quietly practised for six hundred years.
Not a special-occasion incense. This is the one that sits in the cupboard and gets used on ordinary Tuesdays — and it has been Japan’s favourite for over a century.
Kyara is the rarest grade of aloeswood there is — once reserved for the Japanese Imperial Court, and still treated with the same restraint today.
Edonishiki takes its name and character from the Edo period — a scent built on balance rather than intensity, meant to sit quietly in a room rather than announce itself.
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