Talk:Incense

Occidental religious use
It seems the only picture of incense used in the context of an Abrahamic faith is an Orthodox church in India. Incense is widely used in Catholic, Anglican, and some liturgical Protestant churches. If anyone has the rights to a picture like this one, of an Anglican bishop in New Zealand, I think the article would most surely benefit from it: http://www.liturgy.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/P2_Archbishop-Timothy-Dolan11.jpg PenitentWhaler (talk) 18:45, 16 September 2013 (UTC)


 * There are other images used in Religious use of incense.
 * There are a number of issues with this article, including the selection of images, and it does need some attention. There is a fair degree of misinformation about incense on Wikipedia that is being copied and repeated by various websites. It is difficult to know at times where the misinformation began: here on Wikipedia, or on someone's blog. And, due to lack of decent sources on incense, it can be difficult to work out what is true and what is speculation, opinion, or misinformation. A "fact" on Wikipedia about halmaddi, that it is hygroscopic and so incense sticks that use it remain damp, has been much repeated, but I can find no reliable source to provide this information. Indeed, what reliable sources do say is that halmaddi soon becomes brittle, and that when working with halmaddi it needs to be kept moist to prevent it drying out and becoming too brittle to work with. It is often kept in water until needed, and is often worked with honey to make it pliable. My own anecdotal experience with incense sticks I know to contain halmaddi (listed as an ingredient, rather than assumed because the incense is called a Nag Champa), is that they are dry. A number of masala incense sticks can be soft - though only on the outer part where the spice powder has been rolled on. And this softness may be due to a number of other binders or fixers, such as jigat or makko. We need a good source, and I haven't yet found one.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  11:46, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Japanese Incense
In this section there are sections that could stand some clarifications. Japanese aloeswood is generally separated into area of origin and into categories that deleniate the qualities of sweet, bitter, salty, spicey, sour. Jinko & Kyara are terms used to qualify the proportion of resin in the wood as well as the quality of that resin. Both jinko and kyara are sinking incense and Kyara with the highest quality. Some also diferentiate between a wet or dry scent. The term "oud" is I believe an arabic word and while it may be used in Japan, it is not a Japanese word. Koh-do is "The way of incense / fragrance" and generally refers to a more formal and ceremonial enjoyment of incense wood where the participants sample rare wood, gently warmed to release the fragrance. They then judge the wood and write their impressions of each wood sampled. Koro is the Japanese term for incense burner. 68.107.137.101 (talk) 03:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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Some references are incorrectly formatted
In this revision, some text was apparently copied from the Incense in India article. It includes the numbers of the references that were cited in that article, but it does not include the original references. Jarble (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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