Shoyeido's Moss Garden Incense 250 Sticks - Nokiba

Moss Garden is such a wonderful fragrance. This is one that I get in the big box (500 count) because I burn so much of it, and it is so good. The high ratings by others for this product is no accident. It's an outstanding incense crafted in the finest Japanese tradition. A typical coreless incense, it burns best in a coffin-style incense holder on a fireproof mat. That way you burn it all, and none goes to waste. Shoyeido makes many very expensive, high-end incense, but this is a great example of the company's quality products at a low price. If you're new to Japanese incense or want to add to your collection of outstanding fragrances, don't be afraid to get this one in the big box. You'll be glad you did. It's definitely worthy of a five-star rating.

Shoyeido's Moss Garden Incense is simply amaIng! I could write paragraph, after paragraph about how this scent moves me. I mean it literally moves me!! The scent is indescribable, it is so complex, yet so amazingly simple. Today a family friend walked in the house and literally followed her nose to my room, she smiled and asked "what is that scent, it smells the air after a warm summer rain". To me, Moss Garden smells like my childhood home, like a mix of wonderful sweet pastries baking, the smell of a freshly cleaned home and the breeze billowing softly through the windows on a hot summer night carrying smells of the evening. The scent makes me feel calm, peaceful, satisfied, happy and full of the love & promise. So strange, that a scent can make me feel so at peace and envoke so many feelings of happiness, warm memories, utter satisfaction, warm summer nights and the feeling of promise. This is truly my favorite scent so far by Shoyeido, however I said the same about White River and River Path, so who knows what I have in store with my next new Shoyeido incense purchase. I'm new to incense. I'm one of those people that used to get an immediate headache, from the odor of burning incense. I could never figure out why the store that I purchased the incense from smelled so good, only to get home and get nauseated with a terrible headache within a few minutes of lighting the incense I purchased from that store only earlier that day. I now, know why, they were burning high quality Japanese incense in the store, probably Shoyeido, and selling low quality, inexpensive Indian or Chinese incense. The scent of Moss Garden can't be described, however it can be felt. I believe that high quality Shoyeido incense is different for each person, envoking and awakening feelings of happiness and pleasure, feeling that your memory corrilates to a scent. These amazing incense created by Shoyeido have the key to open those feelings in you, each scent triggering something a little different in each individual but all of them being of pure pleasure and happiness. The scent is soft yet not faint, it is not overpowering but it is not gentle either. It's too difficult to put into words, my advice to you is order the 500 stick box, believe you'll end up using them all and ordering more, like I just did myself. I can guarantee the 250 stick box will not lay long in my home, I've already given some to my neighbor and my son's girlfriend. Do yourself a favor, buy yourself a box of Shoyeido's Moss Garden, sit back, close your eyes and see where the scent takes you! Enjoy!

This is my first experience with Japanese incense...it won't be the last.The Moss Garden scent is hard to describe. It is very soft/subtle. I'm a little hesitant to try to be too specific because my descriptions may mean something entirely different to you. But.... It reminds me a bit of a camp fire that's burning some distance away. Like... I'm getting a whiff, but I can't really tell where it's coming from. There's some fragrant wood in that fire....maybe a piece of fir or pine. Maybe something still green...leaves or moss. Maybe a hint of something that touches on marijuana....only not. And then, you totally can't expect it, but there's a touch of the scent your first girlfriend used to wear that just made you feel ...so.....good....and then it's gone. It is an intriguing scent that makes me want to explore it further...and I intend to. Plus, it smells sooooo much better burning than it does in the box.In no way does the scent assault your sense of smell like so many of the soapy, perfume, floral incense sticks that are on the market.These sticks are shorter than your normal incense sticks and thinner too. They don't burn as long either, but they DO leave you wanting more.At about $20 these at first seem more expensive than other incense sticks. But, you get 500 sticks and that's only ~$4/100 sticks. That is not expensive and, even it IS more than you're used to spending, they are worth it.I highly recommend this incense!

I'm still burning my first stick right now so perhaps my opinion will change but I completely love this incense smell. Honestly I'm not the best at discerning individual scents within a spectrum but it smells like a blend of sandalwood and patchouli maybe with something else? Regardless, it's incredibly pleasant, it's not overly smokey, and it was surprisingly a "normal" size stick incense. I was expecting smaller as I just purchased Shoyeido's White River and they ended up only being like 2 1/2 inch sticks. These are like, 4 1/2 inches, so immediately that increased the value of them in my mind. You can tell these are made with quality ingredients, it doesn't smell toxic or like I'm poisoning my house. I'm so glad I found this brand.