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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Nerikoh isn’t lit. It is warmed — a small kneaded pellet of aromatic wood, resin and spice set over gentle heat, giving up its scent so slowly that you lean in to meet it.
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.
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.
A compact, plant-based candle built for smaller settings — the same clean, even burn as our full-length tapers, in a shorter, more versatile form.
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