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The carpenters apprentice One good day when I was a
carpenters' apprentice I was sawing and planing Cedarwood and I was struck by the delicious scent of the wood.
The complete workshop was soaking in it. A sweet heavy odour, contrasting
sharply with the howling of the planing bench, the sharp neonlights, and the
overall atmosfere of hurry. What I smelled was royal, I was short of words to
describe it. Enthousiastically I reported this to my master but he shook his
shoulders and looked at me with an expression as if he had always known that
it was a mistake of the director to give me the job. I couldn't forget the
experience and one year later as I was smelling Juniperwood, I knew it :
"I want to let my whole house smell like this". Making the step
towards incense still costed some years. The product incense has such an
eastern aura woven around it , that it will never come to your mind that you
can also make this on your own. It's surrounded by mysticism and the divine
grace has given humanity some holy recipes that enable us to get into touch
with the higher powers, at least incense packages seem to suggest this
message. |
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After I came into the
posession of a trunk from a juniper tree I had to start my project. A
search on the internet proved that it was in any case possible to make
incense sticks or cones. That you can catch scents and store them. And that
it is really fun. However, the main obstacle is knowledge. Little is known
and the preparedness to share knowledge is remote. So you start to research on
your own. There are thousands of plants, trees, resins, gums, all with their
own peculiarities. Soon you’ll become an alchemist who wants to make gold. Of
this quest I want to witness. |
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