Question

When a burning incense stick is rotated fast along a circle what do you see and why?

Answer 1

This is bcoz
the kinetic energy is more and that's why it is rotated fast

Answer 2

I felt rather inspired and compelled to write this article after an enjoyable meetup with Mr Stephan S. from Mexico, whom had stopped by Singapore for a while. I’m extremely impressed the olfactory prowess of Stephan which I believe to be a notch above mine (I hope to invite him to write a guest article one day on his expertise on copal in incense!). He had reflected to me that he had purchased some incenses which smelt different when burnt in different places, such as in Singapore versus back at home in Mexico where he lives at a higher altitude of 1800 metres above sea level.

It made me extremely glad that there was someone else whom had noticed this issue before, and I was not imagining things.

The biggest interference with incense burning is the relative humidity and temperature. At very high humidities, such as in Singapore where you can have an RH of 100% at night, fine incenses can smell a little muted, dull. Apart from turning on the air conditioner to dry the air and cool the air to about 25 degrees celsius before I sample an incense, it took quite some experiments to figure out the optimum burning angle for myself in such environmental conditions. There is no “hard and fast” rule to this due to weather fluctuations, in a drier environment and for more delicate incenses I prefer to burn them totally upright, and if something doesn’t smell very right/good to me, I do vary the angle which often helps.