IncenseInTheWind The Incense Hunter: SamsaSpoon Homemade Incense

Sunday, 31 May 2026

SamsaSpoon Homemade Incense

SamsaSpoon (Irene of the Germany based incense blog Rauchfahne) is part of a large group of people around the world who make their own incense using pure ingredients. Such incense is an important part of the history, tradition, and culture of incense, and would have been going on for thousands of years. While such incense may be informally swapped and shared, it is not often available for purchase. Irene shared some of her incense with me as a friend, and on request has sold some (to India I believe), but she doesn't make the incense as a commercial activity. I have reviewed her incense as an example of what homemade or small craft incense is like in order to expand on my own knowledge and experience of the world of incense.

I have experienced a few other small craft incense makers. Usually loose blends. I find this area of incense making fascinating. Often the focus is more on the ingredients than on the final fragrance accord, so the results may not be in line with the output of a commercial incense house, especially as most home/craft makers are experimenting with ingredients and recipes to discover themselves what works and what doesn't. But they don't have the time, the budget, and often the inclination to repeatedly fine tune a recipe until the fragrance accord is perfected.

So I was really impressed when I found that much of her output is not just pleasantly fragrant, but actually quite awesome.

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