Honor The Goddess in the Smoke

Making your own incense with natural ingredients is a powerful way to connect with earth energies-and it's much healthier to burn indoors than the chemical-laden commercial variety. Incense is your complete guide to making your own homemade blends.

Master incense maker Carl F. Neal has created dozens of unique incense recipes-and includes easy conversion tables for different systems of measurement so your recipes will turn out just right every time!

Whether you want to burn incense for meditation, magic, or just to enjoy its luxurious fragrance, Incense has all the information you need to start crafting your own sweet-smelling scents.

Carl F. Neal (Oklahoma) has been a professional incense maker since 1995 and a practicing Pagan for ten years before that. Carl's fascination with incense stretches back to his childhood when he first discovered it. Much to his father's dismay, Carl began to burn incense at age twelve and has grown more interested and enthusiastic about it every year since. Long before he discovered the spirituality of Mother Earth, he understood the power of scent in daily life. A life-long fascination has followed.

In 1995, Carl began to make incense professionally in a small shop he owned in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As time went by, Carl learned of some drawbacks to synthetic incense. As a long-practicing Pagan, these drawbacks made him reconsider his path. Eventually, this led him to abandon synthetic incense completely in favor of natural incense.

Carl continues to study the creation and use of incense. Carl has discovered and developed new incense uses and techniques that remain to be printed, but may be included in a future incense user's guide. He continues to travel the country and speak about incense and its use anywhere he can. A deep love of incense and the magickal community drives him forward every day.*

*Excerpt from Llewellyn with permission
*149 pages