It’s almost baffling that Aesop doesn’t already have incense. The Melbourne-born home and personal care label has long been fusing sensorial pleasure with unparalleled aesthetics, possessing the inimitable ability to package the ignominy of taking a particularly malodourous bowel movement into something you’d want to proudly display on your bathroom vanity.
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Joining Aesop’s home scent lineup of room sprays, candles, and essential oil blends is a trio of incense blends, titled ‘Aromatique Incense’. Providing an alternative way to suffuse your home with scent, Murasaki, Kagerou, and Sarashina were developed in collaboration with Aesop’s long-term fragrance partner Barnabe Fillion; also responsible for Aesop’s Othertopias range.
With its roots in spiritual and religious ceremonies, the act of burning incense is designed to cleanse the air and cultivate a desired atmosphere through the power of scent. Each Aesop incense blend takes on its own unique tone and has a burn time of 30 minutes and can be used with the label’s chic Bronze Incense Holder.
Murasaki is sweet and smoky, with a medley of spices like cinnamon and clove meeting resins and hinoki wood. Meanwhile, Kagerou lets earthy vetiver take centre stage, with the grass provided nuance courtesy of verdant notes of igusa and dry sandalwood notes. Warm and comforting, Sarashina pairs sandalwood with cinnamon and clove, resulting in earthy, spicy notes as the incense burns out.
The Aromatique Incense trio is priced at $45AUD each and is now available via the Aesop webstore.
Words by John Deckard
