To impregnate their clothes or suffuse their rooms for guests,court people burnt their favorite blend of incense.
''takimono awase ''an incense game wher participants competed to produce better fragrances also started in this period not quite satisfied with the simple fragrances of flowers and fruits in nature court nobles created fragrances for their pleasure thus establishing the foundation of a peculiar in cence culture that was firmly attached to a keen awaress of the seasons.
Base of incense
(Machilusthunbergll)
The brak of this tree is ground into powder and used as the base
(Agarwood)
Sweet,spicy,bitter,and sour various scent depend on the tree's character
(Sandalwood)
Products made in india have a soft and sweet woody type of aroma and the scent lingers for a great length of time. The fragrance characteristics depend on the region.
(Cinnamon)
Spicy scent
(Olove)
Repre scenative of spicy fragrances
(Benzoin)
A sweet fragrance similar to vanilla
(Borneol)
Camphorlc
(Staranise)
The aweet fragrance of anise
(Baby lonia)
The shell part of a sea snail that is ground up into powder form.
This has been used for many years as a way to up hold fragrances.
(Musk)
Musk has a foul scent on its own, but turns into a pleasant sensual scent when diluted with water by a 1 to 1,000 ratio well known for use in perfume and cosmetics but also used to increase men's libidos.
In 1973the Washington agreement restricted the export / import of musk except for special cases.
In present day natural musk is rarely used for fragrances but rahter a synthetic musk.