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Kousaido HANGA Incense - Ume
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🔴 The Subtle Fragrance of Plum Blossoms Defying Winter: The Pure and Elegant Scent of Red Plum and Sandalwood
"Ume" (plum blossoms) are the harbinger of early spring in Japan. Amidst bitter winds and lingering snow, plum blossoms bloom proudly and solitarily, symbolizing "resilience, elegance, and hope" since ancient times. They do not compete with other flowers but announce the arrival of warmth and new life with a subtle, delicate fragrance.
This HANGA print series "Ume" from Kousaido, a renowned Kyoto incense shop, infuses this transcendent harbinger of spring into wisps of smoke, gently awakening the vitality of your space.
This is an incense stick with an extremely elegant formula, featuring a "delicate floral scent" with a hint of tartness and a cool, airy feel. Once lit, the sweet and clean floral fragrance of red plum unfolds, intertwined with herbaceous green notes. The warm notes of sandalwood and musk blend in during the middle and base, making the overall aroma refined, principled, and unconventional, much like a gentle breeze carrying the scent of plum blossoms on a chilly early spring morning, refreshing and uplifting.
🪵 Fragrance Notes
This noble and elegant fragrance has layers as clean as melting spring snow:
- Top notes: Slightly sweet and sour red plum with green leaf freshness, delivering a crisp, bright, and elegant opening.
- Middle notes: Gentle and restrained plum blossom fragrance, cleansing the mind and calming inner restlessness.
- Base notes: Warm sandalwood and silky musk settle in the space, leaving a clean and serene aftertaste.
✨ Recommended Usage Scenarios
Welcoming New Year, New Beginnings: Plum blossoms represent "harbinger of spring and hope," coupled with the auspicious meaning of the "Three Friends of Winter," making it a perfect "ritualistic" scent for New Year, starting work, moving into a new home, or embarking on new projects.
Meditation, Focus, Reading, Writing: The "Ume" scent, without sweetness, elegant and subtle, can help declutter the mind and create a refined and focused personal space.
Gifting to Friends with Integrity and a Love for Classical Beauty: The traditional print depicts the elegant scene of red plum blossoms in light snow. The sophisticated and refined scent is perfect for friends who appreciate classical East Asian literature, tea ceremony, or emphasize quality of life.
📏 Specifications
Brand: Kousaido, Kyoto, Japan
Series: HANGA Print Series
Style: Ume
Origin: Japan (Kyoto-made)
Net weight: Approx. 20g (approx. 90 sticks)
Incense stick length: Approx. 7 cm (convenient short-stick design)
Burn time: Approx. 15 - 17 minutes / stick
⚠️ Gentle Reminder for Use:
- After lighting the tip of the incense stick, gently blow out the flame, allowing the smoke to rise slowly.
- Please use a non-flammable incense holder or plate to collect the ashes produced by burning.
- Please keep the product out of reach of children and pets, and ensure good ventilation in the room.
Customization Services:
We offer the following bespoke services:
• Drilling and Wire Wrapping: We process raw stones into pendants or ornaments, preserving their natural beauty.
• Setting Design: We collaborate with professional artisans to set raw stones into rings, necklaces, or other high-end jewelry, showcasing your personal style.
For products photographed in person, each set has a unique barcode to ensure you receive the exact item shown in the image.
Photography Disclaimer: We insist on authentic photography; all photos are unedited, ensuring that what you see is what you get.
Before each item is dispatched, we degauss and reactivate the gemstone minerals, ensuring each piece is in optimal condition and fosters a better connection with you.
Minerals and crystals, nurtured by nature, inevitably contain various uncontrollable factors during their formation, leading to the incorporation of various impurities. This results in natural phenomena such as ice cracks, cotton-like inclusions, foreign inclusions, bubbles, and pits, which are unavoidable. Variations in the sequence of formation, space, geological environment, temperature, pressure, and other factors of different minerals within a rock lead to different characteristics in terms of crystallization degree, grain size, color, transparency, internal mineral structure, crystal shape, and trace chemical composition, even for the same type of mineral. For example, violent volcanic or crustal movements, without any human interference, generally form deep within the Earth's crust. In specific high-temperature and high-pressure environments, when specific chemical substances reach a saturated state, they gradually crystallize and form. A group of minerals formed under the same genesis and metallogenic stage are called paragenetic minerals. Therefore, minerals and crystals possess unique appearances, and these so-called "imperfections" are evidence of the natural growth of gemstones!
Description
Description
🔴 The Subtle Fragrance of Plum Blossoms Defying Winter: The Pure and Elegant Scent of Red Plum and Sandalwood
"Ume" (plum blossoms) are the harbinger of early spring in Japan. Amidst bitter winds and lingering snow, plum blossoms bloom proudly and solitarily, symbolizing "resilience, elegance, and hope" since ancient times. They do not compete with other flowers but announce the arrival of warmth and new life with a subtle, delicate fragrance.
This HANGA print series "Ume" from Kousaido, a renowned Kyoto incense shop, infuses this transcendent harbinger of spring into wisps of smoke, gently awakening the vitality of your space.
This is an incense stick with an extremely elegant formula, featuring a "delicate floral scent" with a hint of tartness and a cool, airy feel. Once lit, the sweet and clean floral fragrance of red plum unfolds, intertwined with herbaceous green notes. The warm notes of sandalwood and musk blend in during the middle and base, making the overall aroma refined, principled, and unconventional, much like a gentle breeze carrying the scent of plum blossoms on a chilly early spring morning, refreshing and uplifting.
🪵 Fragrance Notes
This noble and elegant fragrance has layers as clean as melting spring snow:
- Top notes: Slightly sweet and sour red plum with green leaf freshness, delivering a crisp, bright, and elegant opening.
- Middle notes: Gentle and restrained plum blossom fragrance, cleansing the mind and calming inner restlessness.
- Base notes: Warm sandalwood and silky musk settle in the space, leaving a clean and serene aftertaste.
✨ Recommended Usage Scenarios
Welcoming New Year, New Beginnings: Plum blossoms represent "harbinger of spring and hope," coupled with the auspicious meaning of the "Three Friends of Winter," making it a perfect "ritualistic" scent for New Year, starting work, moving into a new home, or embarking on new projects.
Meditation, Focus, Reading, Writing: The "Ume" scent, without sweetness, elegant and subtle, can help declutter the mind and create a refined and focused personal space.
Gifting to Friends with Integrity and a Love for Classical Beauty: The traditional print depicts the elegant scene of red plum blossoms in light snow. The sophisticated and refined scent is perfect for friends who appreciate classical East Asian literature, tea ceremony, or emphasize quality of life.
📏 Specifications
Brand: Kousaido, Kyoto, Japan
Series: HANGA Print Series
Style: Ume
Origin: Japan (Kyoto-made)
Net weight: Approx. 20g (approx. 90 sticks)
Incense stick length: Approx. 7 cm (convenient short-stick design)
Burn time: Approx. 15 - 17 minutes / stick
⚠️ Gentle Reminder for Use:
- After lighting the tip of the incense stick, gently blow out the flame, allowing the smoke to rise slowly.
- Please use a non-flammable incense holder or plate to collect the ashes produced by burning.
- Please keep the product out of reach of children and pets, and ensure good ventilation in the room.
More information
More information
Customization Services:
We offer the following bespoke services:
• Drilling and Wire Wrapping: We process raw stones into pendants or ornaments, preserving their natural beauty.
• Setting Design: We collaborate with professional artisans to set raw stones into rings, necklaces, or other high-end jewelry, showcasing your personal style.
For products photographed in person, each set has a unique barcode to ensure you receive the exact item shown in the image.
Photography Disclaimer: We insist on authentic photography; all photos are unedited, ensuring that what you see is what you get.
Before each item is dispatched, we degauss and reactivate the gemstone minerals, ensuring each piece is in optimal condition and fosters a better connection with you.
Naturally occurring
Naturally occurring
Minerals and crystals, nurtured by nature, inevitably contain various uncontrollable factors during their formation, leading to the incorporation of various impurities. This results in natural phenomena such as ice cracks, cotton-like inclusions, foreign inclusions, bubbles, and pits, which are unavoidable. Variations in the sequence of formation, space, geological environment, temperature, pressure, and other factors of different minerals within a rock lead to different characteristics in terms of crystallization degree, grain size, color, transparency, internal mineral structure, crystal shape, and trace chemical composition, even for the same type of mineral. For example, violent volcanic or crustal movements, without any human interference, generally form deep within the Earth's crust. In specific high-temperature and high-pressure environments, when specific chemical substances reach a saturated state, they gradually crystallize and form. A group of minerals formed under the same genesis and metallogenic stage are called paragenetic minerals. Therefore, minerals and crystals possess unique appearances, and these so-called "imperfections" are evidence of the natural growth of gemstones!
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