Smoke for Ordinary Days

Peace Incense. A single stick burning in a small gold ring on mustard.

Smoke for ordinary days. A birch tube of Pine incense.

In China, incense has long belonged to temples and ceremonies. Peace Incense wants it back in daily life, burning while you read, make tea or sit still for a minute.

It began in 2021 as an incense series inside DOCUMENTS and became a brand of its own in 2025.

Wood, resin and clay. Sandalwood, agarwood, maple resin, nanmu and benzoin, beside a bundle of sticks on gold.

Every scent starts from the same base of five woods and resins. Close to 80% of the steps are done by hand. The incense then rests in old pottery jars before it is packed.

One turtle, one hour. A hand-pressed turtle incense coil.

The coils are pressed by hand into the shape of a small turtle, and each one burns for about an hour. In China the turtle stands for a long and steady life.

Gold Agarwood on gold leaf and Silver Sandalwood on silver leaf.

Two single-note sticks carry a thin layer of precious metal. Gold Agarwood is Hainan agarwood and green kynam under gold leaf.

Silver Sandalwood is Indian and Australian sandalwood under silver leaf.

A turtle that fishes. The gold turtle holder gripping a stick over a brown ceramic dish.

The gift set holds a gold-tone turtle that grips a single stick like a fishing rod, over a warm brown ceramic dish. The first Peace Incense room opened in January 2026 at the West Bund in Shanghai, built on a grid of wood, linen and ceramic jars.