In the cabin was a strong and unfamiliar aroma, surely, I thought, the scent of some Eastern incense, Hindu herbs, fruits, and resins.
I smelled the incense and burning herbs and tasted the sweet nectar of devotion.
And Sound Spectrum smelled like a record store, which is to say it gave off a fragrance that was "a combination of herb, incense, the Coast Highway, the ocean and Jack in the Box all simmered together for 40 years," as Wave Baker, a longtime clerk at the shop, described it to me.
HOCUS This urban occult apothecary has a new location, where you can still buy unusual herbs, custom incense, spell books and preassembled packets like the Samhain kit (candles, incense, bath salts and candy corn, $13.95).
Packaged herbs, beans, incense and rice line the mini-grocery's shelves.
This includes smoke in all forms: incense smoke, smoke from herbs or smoke from a pipe.
Get your materials: herbs, candles, incense, etc. Set up your ritual space, such as an altar.
There's no word on whether Kavanaugh's gone ahead and armed himself with some protective herbs, gemstones, and incense to guard against the impending attack, but it looks like a few of his allies know there's a curse coming his way and at least one of them seems really, really freaked out about it.
If you plan to use the altar for rituals that require table space, for instance grinding herbs or burning incense, make sure it is large and flat enough for that purpose.
Now rocks line the walls of the 650-square-foot space, glinting among Reiki-charged candles, baskets of herbs, dragon's blood incense and books about energy healing.
