Shoyeido's Kyoto Autumn Leaves Incense, 450 Sticks - Kyo-nishiki

These incense sticks are wonderful. They remind you of walking thru a lakeside town on a warm fall evening and catching the scent of bonfire and burning leaves and marshmallows all mixed together. The scent is just beautiful. The smoke level is minimal and does not cause you to feel nauseated and isn't headache inducing. The incense sticks themselves are very thin and dainty, so you must be careful when handling so not to break them. They come neatly packaged in a beautifully decorated box like shown in the listing. I am very pleased with my purchase and will be buying these again once they run out! 🍂 🔥 🍂 ❤️

My favorite incense, smells like autumn

I’ve tried tons of the Shoyeido incenses since I live near a showroom in Colorado. This is my longtime favorite, and bonus that it happens to be one of the more affordable ones.Clean-burning, well balanced, soft yet effective scent… Earthy enough to not be sickeningly sweet, but sweet enough to not be too dank and earthy.

I've been looking for something like this for years it's soothing calming very relaxing love the low smoke level and long burning time the size is perfect for me and scent quality is perfect not overbearing but not too little either I love it and I love that the whole stick burns

I wasn'timpressed at first because I'm used to strongers melling incense. Unlike Nippon Kodo's Ka Fuh line, I can't detect any sandalwood whatsoever. I mostly smell sweet benzoin. It reminds me of cookies or cake baking. Underneath the benzoin there are undertones of tree sap and leaves and warm spices. This is somewhat reminiscent of pumpkin spice candles as another reviewer said. It is best to avoid sitting too close to the incense because the subtle notes are impossible to pick up on when the smoke is really concentrated. It helps to burn it outside too, so that the humidity scatters the scent more. I wasn't fond of this at first, but it is growing on me. The more I use it, the more I smell scents I missed the first time. It really does make me think of burning leaves in the fall, warm spiced tea and cake, pumpkins, and chilly evenings. I just think the scent should be more pronounced, it's so subtle. It needs more scent, less wood smoke. Other than that, I really like the packaging and it portrays its namesake pretty well. It's a lovely scent but if you're used to strong Indian incense like I am, it is a shock to the senses. You may not care for it at first either but give it a chance...it is really nice once you get to know it better!

This to me is a lighter version of Horon White River. It has a sweet under current of cookies or cake mixed with the spice and sandalwood. This is by no means a cloyingly sweet incense. It's very well blended. I get about 25min of burn/stick.

I am a big fan of these incense and often get the mixed pack, but always end up using Autumn Leaves first, so I grabbed this instead. Great value - sticks are a little shorter than in the mixed pack, but overall still wonderful quality!

This smells like an ancient forest floor. It has notes of patchouli, and sandalwood, decaying leaves and the faintest suggestion of Opium perfume. It's heavenly. Subtle but distinctive.