incense recipes are presented here for your olfactory enjoyment.

These incense recipes require that the ingredients be finely ground, preferably to a fine powder. The incense recipes ingredients, such as resins and gums are usually mixed first, and then the powdered leaves, barks, flowers and roots are added. Any essential oils or other liquids are added last.

Flower petals and plant leaves may smell very different when fresh, dried, or smoldered, so use common sense and trust your own experience. Try any or all of these formulas, but do so prudently.

You can find the herbs and resins for these Recipes at many herb stores. Consult your local telephone directory.

It is easiest to use charcoal blocks for burning the ingredients, available in a wide range of sizes, from over an inch in diameter to approximately a half-inch size. Potassium nitrate is added to these charcoal blocks during their manufacture to help them ignite. When lit, fresh charcoal blocks erupt into a sparkling fire which quickly spreads across the block.

Place the charcoal in a censer or other adequate fire-proof container. Once it is glowing and the saltpeter within it has stopped sparkling, a half-teaspoon or so of the mixed ingredients may be placed on the block. Ingredients containing large amounts of resins and gums (frankincense and myrrh, for example) will burn longer than those mainly composed of woods and leaves.

Multipurpose Incense
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Dry peel of one lemon
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Few drops of essential oil

Campfires Remembered
Mix equal portions of Rowan Wood, Poplar, Juniper, Pine, Holly Branches, elder.
Take ground powder of each, mix together ingredients & burn indoors on charcoal.

It will bring vivid memories of nights spent around the campfire