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  • Tree of Life Champa

    Tree of Life Champa

    We love champa incenses. This isn’t something that we keep as a secret. We’re always looking for another one to add to our selection. When we found Tree of Life Champa, we knew it had to be part of our library of incenses. This offering is from the Tree of Life company that also produces…

  • Nitiraj Natural Masala Incense

    Nitiraj Natural Masala Incense

    Over the years, there have been many champa incenses, all of such varying quality. The classic that we all know so well, the famed blue box Shrinivas Sugandhalaya has undergone so many changes since the 90s that it is nothing similar to its original formula. It’s still a good fragrance, but it has changed so…

  • Frankincense Better

    Frankincense Better

    Nearly all of our incense dealers offer frankincense. It varies in quality considerably from dealer to dealer. It can even differ greatly from one dealer from batch to batch. It is a natural product, so there is little way to know what one is getting from run to run. We found a a source that…

  • About Morning Star Cedarwood Incense

    About Morning Star Cedarwood Incense

    The Morning Star line is all about theme and variation. All of them have the same basic clean, crisp, cooling sandalwood base. Morning Star Cedarwood differs in that it has the addition of refreshing, balsamic cedarwood. It brightens up the fragrance, gives it a distinctive, subtle quality that reminds us of baking apples Morning Star…

  • WEDDING CAKE BEADS

    “Wedding Cake” beads, so called because of the fancy designs on the bead made to look like icing. Originally these beautiful ornate glass lamp worked beads were made in Italy. East Indian Glass artists adopted the designs with a less expensive version that was the work of the Murano glassblowers. These beads vary in color,…

  • Dr. Bronner’s Great Products

    Dr. Bronner a famous name in natural personal care products including, liquid soaps, bar soaps, lip balms and many other items. The products date back 5 generations to 1858. Emil Bronner, born 1908, never received a doctorate; it was common practice to adopt an honorable title of doctor in Europe. It was bestowed on those…

  • MOM LOVES THE KESWICK THEATRE

    I have spent many wonderful moments at the Keswick Theatre over several decades and I have always felt it was such a great venue to see a variety of entertainment. The size of the theatre and the acoustics is wonderful for the kind of diversified venues that have appeared and for those to come. The…

  • GOOD KNIGHTS

    Good Knights With the Knighting of Van Morrison, I became curious as to other Rock stars who have had a similar honor. 51 years ago the Beatles became the first rock stars to receive royal honors and then six more Rockers earned the title of Sir. They are: Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir…

  • Frankincense Fans Rejoice

    We just found out about an exciting and beautiful line of resin-based incense sticks to compliment the Fred Soll line. Many of them are Frankincense based. We made sure to get a nice sampling of what they have. We are slowly rolling them out so as to not confuse ourselves as much as our clients.…

  • on this day…

    We tried to blog this before, but we had some pooter-related issues, so here it is, a bit late. Yesterday marks the 39th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. For many, I don’t have to tell how epic this release was. For others, well, it was epic. It’s one of very few albums to go diamond.…