As early as thousands of years ago, the ancients discovered the “medicinal value” of incense! Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine) recorded the method of vanilla fumigation. In Shennong Bencao (Shennong Materia Medica), agarwood and sandalwood are classified as top-grade medicinal materials. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the art of incense was popular, and court nobles used incense to regulate their bodies and minds.

Modern aromatherapy research shows that when we smell fragrance, aromatic molecules (odor molecules) will be carried into the apex of the nasal cavity through the olfactory nerve bodies distributed on both sides of the nose, and then transmitted to the olfactory area located in the anterior lobe of the brain, reaching the “limbic system”, and then triggering emotional reactions. After the cells in the olfactory center are stimulated and excited, they will also prompt the adjacent pituitary gland to respond immediately, controlling the gland to secrete hormones (gonadotropins) in a neuroregulatory manner, so that it sends out signals to regulate hormone secretion to adjust the physiological condition of the human body, and achieve the effects of relieving tension, boosting spirits, exciting people or stimulating the body and mind.