Incense sticks

Use incense all the time. Nag champa..love it...relaxing?

Sad to see a post from Feetlebaum on this thread, much missed

They bring on my asthma so I avoid them like the plague.

Lavender and sandalwood here, too. I find it quite relaxing to put music on and light some incense.

Yes, I use them. I particularly like to burn lavender sticks as I find them relaxing and I really enjoy the residue scent lingering on for a day or two afterwards.

Yes love them particularly sandlewood jasmine and lavender I don’t like the plug ins either

Yes I love them, but I’m quite specific on which fragrances I like. I much prefer an incense aroma to any of the plug ins, sprays or liquids that are popular atm. Most of them smell chemically to me.

All the time - always have, for about 40 years, and will probably continue to do so. Can't stand the smell of chemical room scenters, someone gave me a diffuser stick thingy that is alleged to smell of orange and cinnamon, it's disgusting. I love incense, including the resin sort you burn on a charcoal block

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I also used to use joss sticks back in the 70's. Rarely use them now, but recently needed to do something drastic to remove the fishy smell pervading the kitchen after the production of a particularly delicious fish pie made by DH. The joss stick worked - I have one of the mini ski thingys to catch the ash - but then the smell pervaded the living room so it ponged of joss stick. Currently have an oil burner belting out lavender fumes in the hall as that fishy smell went everywhere.

Guess we won't be having fish pie again for a while....

Nelliem after I posted I realised that I should have written synthetic chemicals! Yes, not even natural products are perfect! I also think that Wikipedia is not necessarily to be relied upon for information unless it's backed up by links to proper research.

I love joss sticks, but have spent tonight listening to a lecture on 'History of Politics in the Holy Land' complete with atmospheric Frankincense. Ye gods but that stuff is foul.

MinmouseAll "natural products" including homegrown flowers etc have very complex chemicals compounds in them, or they would not smell at all.

Just read what chemicals are in Lavender.

"In vitro, lavender oil is cytotoxic as well as photosensitizing. A study demonstrated that lavender oil is cytotoxic to human skin cells in vitro (endothelial cells and fibroblasts) at a concentration of 0.25%. "

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_oil

No can't bear the smell it lingers in everything..

Found 3 boxes/tubes of them in back of cupboard...remind me too much of incense at endless school Mass services.....

I use joss sticks and incense, but only buy those made with natural oils and spices. Don't like the idea of breathing in chemicals!

They make me wheeze and the smell stays in your clothes.

I have a few of those holders, baubles......somehow the ash always seems to fall to the side, no matter how carefully I set the stick in!

I've got one of those, baubles. Now......where did I put it?

There are holders designed to catch the ash from joss sticks. They're shaped a bit like a broad ski with a little hole in the curved end in which to stick the stick, so to speak. It then sits at an angle so that the ash falls onto the long part of the ski. Ingenious

I do not like "Joss sticks" They are always a bit too heavily perfumed and I find the ash "too smoky" scented candles are similarly "heavy" in their perfumes and you also get the smell of the paraffin wax.

I find the oil diffusers with the reeds, the least intrusive of these "perfume your home things".

I used to but they are messy even in a plant pot so I use scented candles and reed diffusers but hopefully we will soon be flinging the windows open wide. I stop using them in summer.

Joss-sticks, feetlebaum, . The ash is a nuisance, that's why I stick them in a plant-pot.

I have recently rediscovered joss sticks which are no longer the ubiquitous patchouli scent and burn them quite frequently. Musk or rose. I stick them in a small pot with blue tack which saves messy ash.

Are we talking of joss-sticks? The only problem with them is the ash....