The word "incense" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word when describing something that has a fragrant smell, usually used for religious or spiritual ceremonies. For example, "The sweet smell of incense filled the church during the morning service."
Lit by candlelight, surrounded by incense and sung in Gregorian chant, it was like witnessing living history.
On DC Urban Moms and Dads, an online parenting message board, one woman posted that after debating the options for her leftover embryos, she brought the vials home, "burned some incense, held them and cried.
Girls in the local area would otherwise be coerced into being house maids or selling incense sticks in the slum.
However, accountants demanded compensation for the added accountability: the policy led to a 13% increase in audit fees.Conspicuously absent from the American proposals is the idea that would most incense the industry: mandatory audit rotation.
The sexes themselves smell different, too, and women can glean information about a man's social status from his smell alone.As long ago as the 1950s, a perfumer called Paul Jellinek noted that several ingredients of incense resembled scents of the human body.
As the musicians play their instruments, the believers on board burn incense and empty scraps of food into the water as an offering to the gods.
The script has been cut to less than three hours, and it plays like an historical thriller.At the start of this production, a thurible breathing incense swings across the stage, which is lit by shafts of light from high windows.
In ancient times it was a key port on the incense-trading routes from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and thence to India and China; later, it was one of the lesser attractions on the Christian pilgrimage tour.
Established critics, notably the corporate raider Lou Siffer, maintain it is all incense-smoke and mirrors.
A five-piece band welcomes the incense-bearing priest to the altar in a simple Catholic church on a hill above the Atlantic.
