10 pieces. 1 ritual. Zero noise.
Temple No. 84 contains ten Palo Santo incense sticks, housed in a minimalist glass vial with a cork seal. Each stick is pressed from ethically sourced wood, ground and cured in Hong Kong with ancestral techniques rarely spoken of. The scent—soft resin, sacred smoke, memory of rain on warm stone.
These aren’t for daily use. They’re for doorway moments: before a departure, after a decision, during an arrival.
Details:
- Origin: Hong Kong
- Contents: 10 hand-rolled Palo Santo incense sticks
- Burn time: ~25 minutes per stick
- Packaging: Plastic cylinder with cork
- Scent: Earthy, resinous, warm with faint citrus & smoke
The Story: “Temple No. 84”
In the northern district of Kowloon, there once stood a private temple with no official name—only a number carved into stone: 84. It was small. Hidden between shuttered herbal shops and neon reflections. Inside, there was no altar—only a narrow table, a book with no title, and a single vial of incense labeled in brushstroke.
Those who burned a stick were told only this:
“You are not summoning anything. You are returning to it.”
The recipe traveled, sealed in wax, to a craftsman in Hong Kong who still presses the incense by hand, following proportions passed from monk to architect to exile.
Today, the temple is gone. But the ritual remains—sealed in glass, labeled without flair, waiting to be burned not in haste, but in knowing.