I asked Hyungi Park, an artist in Los Angeles, to break down the steps → How to Make Your Own Incense Here’s what you need: 1 ½ teaspoons sandalwood powder 2 teaspoons makko powder ½ teaspoon ginkgo ...

At the start of every year, incense sticks are used to celebrate Tết, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Due to shifting industry and demands, the local incense producers had to readjust their strategy.

Every year as Lunar New Year approaches, the entrance of Quyet Thang Village is filled with the strong fragrance of the incense sticks made here. Every Tết season, incense makers in Quyết Thắng ...

An incense stick can be made of different varieties of wood, herbs, powders, pastes, or sticks soaked in aromatic oil. (Inset: top, Cinnamon; bottom, Lavendar) Photos/File Scents have a powerful ...

Although the time is ripe for selling incense sticks, people do not see many of them in Le Minh Xuan incense-making village in HCM City. At four am, people can hear powder mixer, drying machine… being ...

A worker covers incense sticks with colored powder at the Fujian Xingquan Incense Factory in East China's Fujian Province. Photo: AFP Dozens of workers toil through the night coating thin lengths of ...

Dozens of workers toil through the night coating thin lengths of bamboo in herbs, spices and richly coloured powders to create incense sticks that are spread out under the rising sun to dry. It is an ...