Dhe’s Tsang Monastery’s Sacred Mountains incense is a skinnier stick than their flagship blend incense. The one ingredient listed is gadan kyenba, which Incense Traditions describes as a mint-like herb. It is notable to mention this ingredient because the scent profile is definitely a little bit different in this one, but I would go into it expecting it to be multiple ingredient nonetheless. But this ingredient does seem to give the incense a bit of a similarity to the wormwood found in many another Tibetan incense except it doesn’t hint at the funkiness you may often find in incense with this herb in it. Instead the gadan kyenba seems to interact mostly with the more evergreen and woody notes you usually find, which is a nice balance with the usual high-altitude notes. There’s a sort of autumnal leafy scent in this one that I’ve mentioned in some previous reviews like there’s probably a touch of rhododendron in there and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a little sandalwood or agarwood in the mix too. It’s a pleasant stick, somehow both powerful and gentle at the same time and very different from the flagship scent. Maybe the only downside of this one is that the packaging is basically a big bundle of easily breakable sticks wrapped only with a couple of the red strips. I think this is probably too natural-ingredients based to worry about it losing strength any time, but it would have been cooler in a tube. Then again, knowing how often the packaging changes with Tibetan incenses, maybe this is just down the line a bit!
Dhe-Tsang Monastery / Sacred Mountains Incense
September 9, 2021 at 5:05 am (Dhe-Tsang Monastery, Gadan Kyenba, Incense, Mike, Tibet Autonomous Region)
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