Our incense range contains sacred wood and dried herb bundles for cleansing a space, marking a moment, or settling before meditation.
3 pieces of organic natural wood Palo Santo incense sticks for traditional ritual practice and meditation.
Sustainably sourced White Sage smudge stick for daily rituals, meditation or sacred smoke cleansing.
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Incense for cleansing, ritual and meditation
Incense is any aromatic material burned to release scented smoke, and people have used it for the same three reasons for thousands of years: to clear the air of a room, to mark the beginning or end of something, and to give a busy mind a signal that it is time to settle.
Our range is deliberately narrow. Palo santo is sacred wood, burned as a stick and relit many times over. The white sage smudge stick is a dried herb bundle, bound and burned whole. Both are the plant itself rather than a manufactured paste, and neither needs a holder, a burner or charcoal. A match and something heatproof to catch the ash is the whole requirement. If you would rather have flame than smoke, our ritual candles mark a moment the same way without the ventilation, and the vessels that go alongside either are in our ritualware collection.
FAQ and further info about our incense
Incense is used to cleanse and freshen a space, to mark a transition in the day, to focus the mind before meditation or prayer, and simply because the scent is pleasant. Ritual incense and everyday incense are the same material put to different purposes. The practice is close to universal, appearing independently in temples, churches and homes across almost every culture with access to aromatic wood or resin.
Stick and cone incense is combustible paste moulded into shape, usually around a bamboo core, and it is what most people picture. Resin incense such as frankincense or myrrh is burned on charcoal. Loose herbs are scattered on charcoal or a heated surface. Sacred wood is burned directly as a stick. Herb bundles are dried, bound and burned whole. We stock the last two, because they are the closest to the plant and the simplest to use.
Most commercial stick incense is a paste of wood powder and binder soaked in fragrance oil, and that oil is often synthetic. What you smell is perfume rather than plant. Natural incense is the material itself, unprocessed and with nothing added, which is why the scent is subtler and why it does not linger in fabric the way a heavily perfumed stick does.
Something steady and unobtrusive rather than sweet or heavy, because the point is for it to fade into the background once you have settled. Wood and herb incense suit this better than perfumed sticks, which tend to announce themselves. The practical consideration is duration: choose something that burns for roughly as long as you intend to sit, so the end of the burn marks the end of the practice without you checking a clock.
Smoke cleansing is the practice of moving aromatic smoke through a space to clear it, and it appears in some form in most cultures that burn incense at all. Practically it works on scent and on ventilation, since the ritual involves opening windows and moving air through rooms that are otherwise closed. Whether or not you take the symbolic dimension seriously, the effect on a space that has felt stale is real enough that the practice has survived everywhere it began.
It matters more than with most products, because the plants used for natural incense are under real pressure from global demand. Responsible sourcing means wood collected from trees that have fallen naturally rather than been cut, and herbs harvested in a way that lets the plant regrow. The other half is restraint: these are materials to use sparingly, and a single piece relit many times is the traditional practice as well as the sustainable one.
With ventilation, yes. Open a window or door so the smoke has somewhere to go, and avoid burning in a small closed room for long stretches. Always use a heatproof dish and never leave anything burning unattended, particularly around children, pets or curtains. If anyone in the house has asthma or another respiratory condition, keep the burn short and the air moving, or use a candle instead.