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what brand do you use?

i stick w/ NAG CHAMPA.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

hippy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know that brand. is it good?

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

nag champa = only incense to use. ever.

except i never use incense. srsly, i'm not 15 anymore...
sometimes when i walk past the street vendors burning it i get nostalgic, though.

― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

i have 2 boxes of nag champa i've never opened! a guy who lives in his car gave them to me once when i was working at a state park and i let him in for free to take a shower at the pool and collect cans. he also gave me some pamphlets about jesus.

― nazi bikini (harbl), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

wow i would never imagine nag champa burners and jesus pushers in the same category.

― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

We have a champaca tree!

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

frakencence and myrrh

― bb (bbrz), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

right now i have GONESH STICKS (opium scent)

http://www.cheaplubes.com/ProductImages/pheromonecandles/Gonesh_Incense_L.gif

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://theunicornshoppe.com/store/images/28525a.jpg
classic! my mom sent some in christmas package
burnt a little at a time, not often, is nice. i like essential oils in diffuser more though.

(omg image from theunicornshoppe.com lols)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

I like the real sandalwood smell like you find in a buddhist temple in China. I've never been able to find the right thing to replicate that though. I guess you have to burn actual sandalwood over charcoals or something?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

idsxxz inxcense good for ur lungs>/

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

I got a crazy religious-type package as a work gift at Christmas, with ACTUAL frankincense and myrrh in it! Both are sort of yellowy-dirt colored lumps like rock candy. Do I burn it? Does it melt?? WAHT TO DO?

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

i think i might burn my nag champa. i could end up regretting this OH WELL u guys got me so inspired

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

no, i just can't do it

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

make sure you have your windows open. i put the incense holder thingy by on the windowsill and burn the incense with the windows open.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

whenever I go into my local pakistani-run newstand and a stick is burning I'm transported to my wannabe hippie childhood. er peace.

also the smell of heroin cooking = church incense

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

i just didn't want it to smell like a headshop, or like my neighbor's apartment. i can't open the windows because they are plasticked for winter :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

quick tip: do not purchase incense at wal-mart.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

why? i bet it smells like ham. or maybe they have kinds of incense like "new car smell"

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

shit makes me sneeze like fucking wild. cannot deal iwth it.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

Incienso de Santa Fe

Not sandalwood, but of similar qualities; not at all perfumy; hippie factor: 0. I favor the piñon and juniper.

― xero (xero), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell is wrong with you people

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

buy a damn scented candle at the grocery store like the rest of america

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

yo those glade scented candles - not so bad!

my cousin gave me some really expensive candle from anthropologie, also smells treatsy. i prefer to incense because it doesn't get ash/dust everywhere.

― zombierza (tehresa), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ nag champa wiki:

"Nag Champa is one of a few scents in the world that completely cover the smell of marijuana"

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

This guy at the place I buy my incense tried to tell me nag champa was made by some Sikh dude rubbing his hands together all day.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

"the dried skin of a hundred medicine men"

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

"on acid"

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I bought one of those retardo-fancy candles last year sometime and it wasn't price-stickered and I liked the smell and felt like treating myself...and it turned out to be TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Oof. But six months later I'm still burning it and still love the smell; they last forever and burn pretty cleanly, and the scent has never turned cloying. I might be a convert.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

i am man enough to admit that i like smelly candles

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

better for my apartment to smell like fake cinnamon than dirty socks

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

smelly candles make nice gift for the valentines day

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

candles also don't leave a thin deposit of incense smoke on everything you possess

― mh. (mike h.), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

but do smelly candles DISGUISE THE REEK OF W33D?!?!?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

i hate incense so much. even the slightest whiff of it is enough to trigger severe nausea. it's probably one of my all-time least favorite things. a quality scented candle, on the other hand, is a great thing. i have a tangerine one currently that's perfect. very light, and not at all sweet.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

well, considering the smell of incense is pretty much the universal indicator for "we were probably smoking up in this room," they probably do a better job even if it doesn't completely mask the smell.

x-post

― mh. (mike h.), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I had a friend in high school, a non-smoker, who, in douchey teenage retaliation against all his smoker friends, would dangle a stick of incense out of the corner of his mouth, like a cigarette, while out places. His righteous indignation was even more incensed (haha see what I did there?) when several service people at various coffee shops in town told him to put it out, while his friends were allowed to keep smoking.

Okay actually that friend/douche was me.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

For the record I burn incense even when I'm not smoking the reefer. I like it, it makes my house feel like some kind of bad-ass church where you get to wear pajama pants and drink beer and play video games and scratch your nuts right there in front of the "congregation" (of cats).

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

nick that was positively paul harvey-esque

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, you needa real decanter for that stuff. its like coal...swing it about like a altar boy..

i actually like the effect of curling peals of smoke in the room, and the effect of little clouds on light...the smell part is the trick...scented candles just remind me of crap like pier 1 and nonsense. most incence reminds me of the bad hippy take, but i can take frankenscence...they burn decent stuff in the dream house, if i recall.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

If by "decanter", you mean "censer"? Yes, I think I might!

Note: good candles bear no resemblance at all to things found at Pier One. If they do, they're not good enough.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

ugh i don't want people to think i'm smoking dope in my apartment! i should switch to scented candles. my GF has a bunch of diptyque candles ... maybe she wouldn't notice if i snagged one ...

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

i love walking into a house that smells like a fresh pot of really good coffee. i would probably just make coffee continuously if it didn't mean i'd never go to bed again.

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

that's actually one way to get rid of cooking smells (onions, etc) or other strong (bad) smells in your house! put some coffee grounds in a small pot, add a bit of water, boil up, let simmer on low-med on stovetop, can walk around the house with the pot of hot coffee, wafting

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

i noticed also at some perfumey places they have coffee beans for you to sniff between scents for palate cleansingness

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

yes!
xpost
(i learn these things from my mom - she likes incense too though (she sends it to me!))

i have something weird against candles - probably the flame thing, that i will forget about it (which i will)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

"some perfumey places" = perfume counters @ saks, neiman marcus, nordstrom's, barney's, etc

they are ALL doing this now ... it is like the hot thing from two years ago, coffee beans in a glass dish w/ the perfume sitting in the bowl

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

i think it is pretty tacky, i'm always like WTF, look @ those good beans going to waste

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

they've been doing this for a long time! i mean, at least since i was old enough to smell perfume at fancy perfume counters
but yeah, i hope they just use cheap beans

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

yes, censer...ha,i just got up and dragged myself home..ill get with it in time.

good candles sure, but...i dont know, my mother uses good ones, but i still wish their house smelled like coffee or somethinng other than cinnamon and spice or whatever

i wish myhouse always smelled like lemon pledge...though maybe not the bedroom

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

i hate houses that smell like cinnamon.

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

im currently making carrot/butternut squash bisque...and i think carrots and spice are making for a nice smell right now...was tempted to light some incence, as little bro evidently left with all the trash from his sat. night adventures in cooking hanging about, but carrots, 5 spice, and a hint of sage seems to be doing things a good turn...

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

leaving some citrus peel in a saucepan over very low heat makes the kitchen smell good.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am about to make the kitch smell awesome by stewing a chicken and then making coconut milk soup. LOOK ON THESE EATS AND DESPAIR.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

i hate houses that smell like cinnamon.

u mad

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

buy a damn scented candle at the grocery store like the rest of america

u mad

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

this thread has me worrying i'm a secret hippie.

i like nag champa!

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of the grocery store, what the FUCK is with those Glade things that project primary-colored light, and who in the ever-loving world is the demographic for Walmart-quality synthetically scented crap who ALSO wants the living room to be the color of an opium den?? And you have to PLUG IT IN, no wonder we start a goddamn war over oil.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

see THOSE things are evil. seriously, fuck a glade plugin. i'd rather my living room smelt like a head shop than a douche commercial.

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

freshen every day, plug it in, plug it in

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

my ex-roommate used to home douche w/ vinegar

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

its good on salads too

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

one time i caught her coming out of the toilet looking kinda cross-eyed, and the bathroom reeked of vinegar but NOTHING HAD BEEN CLEANED

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

ok well i guess one thing had

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

you assume

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

well she did squeak when she walked

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

"oil caaannnnn..."

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Those Glade plug-ins are for your kids' bedrooms. You trick them into wanting one because, hey, they glow, glowing stuff is kewl! But then they are secretly on a mission to make it not smell like the shoes they wore all day without socks, swimming trunks which haven't been washed in 100+ pool visits, etc.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

apple cider / white / red / rice?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think it was your standard white, ie. same as you'd use to clean your ordinary drip coffee maker

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/137594/300.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

what does that make, scented waffles?

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

With six different interchangeable, scent-themed discs to choose from, you can create the atmosphere of places like a mountain trail or a tropical island right in your home.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Relaxing In the Hammock TM

It's one of life's greatest pleasures: resting in a hammock on a carefree, sunny day. Take a deep breath and relax as you enjoy the tranquil scents of rose, jasmine, cedar leaf, cinnamon, lavender, eucalyptus and more. Create an experience you won't want to end
with--Relaxing in a Hammock.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

How it works

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

fuck this thing too

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Take a deep breath and relax as you enjoy the tranquil scents of rose, jasmine, cedar leaf, cinnamon, lavender, eucalyptus and more.

Yes that's exactly what I always smell in my hammock.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

all new: the intoxicating scents of 'banana hammock'

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

When I had a real job I used to be addicted to the Tocca candles in Sofia, Havana or Kyoto. I think they were around $35.00.

I was always interested in the Diptyque candles but at $50 was always hoping someone would give me one as a gift. I took a bunch of cheapo candles from my parents house but they annoy me so much, because they don't burn right and leave great big caverns of wax and therefore go out a lot.

― ian johnson's mom + jack bauer 2gether 4evah (Carey), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

it would be awesome if you yelled "dip-tyque! dip-tyque! dip-tyque!" every time you lit it

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

they don't burn right and leave great big caverns of wax and therefore go out a lot.

yes this sucks

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

the thing about those diptyque candles (like somebody said upthread) is that they really do last for two or three months.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

get one fireplace matches, dummiez

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

My splurgey candle is the Votivo "Forest" and honestly, it smells so good. Right now I'm realizing that a little rosemary goes a long way, because I put it into my stewing chicken and now whole house smells it! Which is fine, but strong.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

When I was 15 my mother bought me one of those crock pots which heated up some sick floral/fruit infused oil. I had this crazy peculiar peach oil that I used to heat up all the time. The other day I could've sworn I smelled it somewhere in W'burg and I started getting really panicky, nauseated about how M. Browning, this dude I met at a Posies show, had suddenly stopped calling me. we had made out for the first time while watching 120 minutes over xmas break. omg i loved that guy so much. i think he was missing a couple of teeth though.

― ian johnson's mom + jack bauer 2gether 4evah (Carey), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i have absolutley no problem with my house looking or smelling like an opium den (im pretty sur ei encourage it, actually). i have no problem with primary colors being projected either.

i will not have my house smelling like that aisle of the supermarket.

and yes, v.v. easy to overdo rosemary. i'd say that most 90% of the time its used its overdone.

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

haha carey i love your story

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

okay, when i said i can't take it, it makes me sneeze, i meant: what the fuck. it all smells terrible and you are all crazy.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

do you prefer your natural body smell? you might be a tripster.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

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