Incense Fragrances and their Uses

Incense Properties

We stock a large range of Incense in our store Carpe Diem with Remi.

Incense aligns the area in which it is burned with ambiance & is a beautiful mood setter, raising the energy to desired levels.  Use incense when meditating to achieve focus, calm & to tune in with higher energies e.g. Angels & Guides.  Incense may be used when cleansing spaces to purify the area.  Each blend or flavor of incense has a specific use.

Here are some common uses for specific incenses:

• Amber - Knowledge & Study, Meditation & use to delve back into the past. Illness.

• Cedarwood - Power. Use when you need strength.

• Cinnamon - Passion, aphrodisiac, raises energy to high Frankincense - Calm &  peace. Relieves stress and anxiety. Ends conflicts & arguments, re-establishing a friendship that has ended due to conflicts, brings peace & resolution to warring factions. Alleviates tense situations. Use when meditating & for ritual work.

• Dragons Blood - Use in rituals involving love, protection & exorcism. Burn for consecration, protection & good luck. Courage

• Frangipani - Psychic work & restores peace & harmony with its soothing vibrations.

• Frankincense - Releases powerful positive vibrations & drives away negativity. Use for purification, spiritual growth, meditation.  Anxiety & depression. Use to bless a new home, room addition or new member to a family including a baby.

• Frankincense & Myrrh - powerful combination that is used for spirituality, healing, protection

• Ginger - Desire, base chakra energy.

• Green Tea -Money, courage & strength.

• Jasmine - Love, inner beauty, happiness & peace, promotes friendship. Used in love and wealth rituals. An aphrodisiac.

• Lavender - Spiritual Healing, tranquillity, higher consciousness, releases energy blockages, eases tension especially headaches.  Promotes sleep and peacefulness.

• Lemongrass -Enhances psychic abilities.

• Lotus - Mental clarity, increased focus, heightened intelligence. Ideal for meditation.

• Musk - Restores balance, re-aligns one’s energies, protects, removes negativity, stimulates self confidence, enhances determination.

• Myrrh - Heavenly attributes used to elevate one’s spiritual consciousness.  Purifies & amplifies intentions.  Was used in the temple of Isis. Meditation & contemplation. Banishes negativity, protects & releases. Use while reading tarot cards or scrying to enhance your natural intuition.

• Nag Champa - Nag Champa is a sacred incense used to purify or sanctify an area. Use for all things spiritual eg meditation, seeking spiritual enlightenment, preparing a room for spiritual group work.

• Neroli - Beauty, luck, fidelity &  attracts romance & love. Increases sexual magnetism. Peace

• Opium - Dreams, sleep, use when you want to have prophetic dreams. 

• Patchouli - Happiness & joy bringer. Use in love, money & prosperity rituals. Use as a fertility talisman. Courage. Luck.

• Rose - Love & desire, use when wanting to attract or keep love around you. Use in love, luck, grief & healing rituals. Peace.

• Rosemary - Emits powerful cleansing & purifying vibrations. One of the oldest incenses. Use in love, healing and mental rituals. Stimulates memory & clarity.

• Sandalwood - Purifies, sanctifies any area & creates a sacred space when used. Spiritual awareness, meditation, psychic development.

• Strawberry - Love & luck

• Vanilla - Mental thought, intelligence, mental ability. Use when studying.

• Vetivert - Burn to break curses, protects from sorcery & anyone who wishes you ill.

• White Sage - Use to purify & protect objects, places & people. Use when reading cards or oracles to enhance intuition.

• Ylang Ylang - Soothes anger that comes from frustration. Also used to treat depression & other stress related disorders.

• We specialize in Incense and always burn 2 fragrances together before opening the doors to the store in the mornings, to set the energy for the day.

  Brands we stock are

  • Satya Sai Baba Nag Champa
  • Spiritual Guide
  • Spiritual Sky
  • Hem Hex, Cones, XL
  • Sandesh Hex, Cones, XL
  • PPure Sai Baba 15 gram flat pack
  • Green Tree 15 gram flat pack
  • Nandita 15 gram flat pack
  • New Moon
  • Goloka Organic and Aromatherapy ranges
  • Shoyeido Angelic, Jewel and Daily Incense ranges
  • Sensing Spirit by Mitchell Coombes
  • Tulasi Sandalwood
  • Bic Elephant Sandalwood in the pink foil packet
  • Golden Nag Agarbathi range
  • Morning Star Japanese Incense with no stick, pure incense