At the start of every year, incense sticks are used to celebrate Tết, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Due to shifting industry and demands, the local incense producers had to readjust their strategy.

I asked Hyungi Park, an artist in Los Angeles, to break down the steps → How to Make Your Own Incense Here’s what you need: 1 ½ teaspoons sandalwood powder 2 teaspoons makko powder ½ teaspoon ginkgo ...

As Lunar New Year nears, Quan Huong village in Da Nang works round-the-clock to fulfill the year’s biggest incense orders. As the Lunar New Year draws closer, Vietnam’s oldest incense village is in a ...

The days leading up to Tet bring an especially vivid energy to Dong Khe, a village in Hoang Giang commune, Thanh Hoa, where the craft of herbal incense glows brighter than at any other time of year.

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