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2. Incense - Wikipedia

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   Incense mixtures can be extruded or pressed into shapes. Small quantities of water are combined with the fragrance and incense base mixture and kneaded into a hard dough. The incense dough is then pressed into shaped forms to create cone and smaller coiled incense, or forced through a hydraulic press for solid stick incense. The formed incense ...

3. Räucherkerze - Wikipedia

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   A Räucherkerze, Räucherkerzchen or Räucherkegel (German: [ˈʁɔɪ̯çɐˌkɛʁt͡sə] ⓘ, literally "smoking candle", "little smoking candle" or "smoking cone") is an incense cone burned at Christmas time in Germany and in the Czech Republic in order to create pleasant scents around the house.

4. Incense in Japan - Wikipedia

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   Fragrant scent played an important role at court during the Heian period (image from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki, 1617–91.). Nihon Shoki, a book of classical Japanese history, gives the first formal record of incense in Japan when a log of agarwood, a fragrant wood used in incense burning, drifted ashore on Awaji Island during the Asuka period in 595 CE, and was presented to Prince ...

5. Censer - Wikipedia

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   A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. They vary greatly in size, form, and ...

6. Frankincense - Wikipedia

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   Frankincense Boswellia carteri tree that produces frankincense, growing inside Biosphere 2. Frankincense, also known as olibanum (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ b ə n ə m /), [1] is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.

7. History of perfume - Wikipedia

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   Perfume was produced by ancient Greeks, [1] and perfume was also refined by the Romans, the Persians and the Arabs. Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrances were incense based. The basic ingredients and methods of making perfumes are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia.