端午香 Duan Wu Incense 2025 10g

端午香 - Duan Wu Incense 2025 10g 

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 2024, when the sun stands high and the Yang forces of heaven reach their zenith, we journeyed to the southern slopes to gather mugwort (艾草) — its leaves heavy with dew and saturated in the day’s most potent vital qi. This is no ordinary harvest: it is believed that herbs gathered at this hour drink in the purest Yang essence, forming nature’s foremost talisman against the five poisons of this noxious month. Dried under the sun for days before milling them into powder, they were kept for a year before making this powerful incense.

Infused with 午时水, crystalline spring water drawn precisely at the sun’s meridian blaze on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 2025, the incense dough was kneaded and formed on this auspicious day itself — sealing within each stick the profound seasonal charge of Duanwu Festival. Horse-tail pine (马尾松) lends a green, resinous breath that coils like emerald mist through the air, while peony bark (丹皮) gathers these healing forces into a fragrant pulse, its medicinal soul both warming and quietly blood-soothing.

As the incense smolders, notes of pine and mugwort merge into drifting veils, cool green vapors rising and dispersing like mountain fog touched by sunlight. The peony’s subtle bitter-sweet depth anchors the scent, evoking ancient apothecaries and timeless Taoist formulas. A talisman by tradition, a joy to the senses by design: this incense weaves together ritual, medicine, and fragrance into one — a subtle guard for the body, an offering to spirit, and a reminder of life’s dance between sun and shadow.

Comes in a 10 grams tube.