Incense was the first perfume developed and held sacred & honouring principals. Fragrance was used for celebration, dream-space, honouring & ceremony. It wasn't an everyday thing.

Kyphi Incense.

One of the oldest recipes from Egypt, the recipe was recorded on the walls of the laboratory room of the Temple complex at Edfu & Dendera on the West Bank of the Nile in upper Egypt. The details were found in a document dated 1500BC, known as the Ebers Papyrus.

This recipe contain anywhere from 12 to 50 ingredients, carefully crafted in a process of blending & aging, in a specific order, over 16 days. Developing this incense was a long dedicated time of prayer, poems, intention, honouring & sacredness - being used to purify the Temples and as an offering to the Goddesses & Gods

It was also burned in the evenings as preparation for the dreamworld/dreamwork.

Far from being just a 'smell', incense, and I feel topical perfumes, had markedly different reasons for being developed alongside the fragrance. It was more than just 'smelling nice', they held stories & connections to people and places, the dream-space and our waking life. They were wholistic in their offering.

These little spheres of medicine are housed in a 50g tin, containing about 20 of various sizes.