Sweetgrass

I bought incense at Sprouts, a local farmer's market grocery store, the other day. I haven't burned incense since I was in high school and thought it would be a nice thing to have around again. There was a small variety of choices and I went with Sweetgrass because of its description on the box:

"Sweetgrass is found in alpine meadows throughout the mountainous regions of the West, from Alaska south to the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. It is one of the treasured plants of native tribes in Canada and the American West, who use it ceremonially along with White Sage. When burned it has a lovely, soft, vanilla-like scent and a centering energy that evokes the ephemeral, shimmering green mountain meadows where it grows." (Juniper Ridge is the company that makes this!)

Let me tell you, it does indeed. It is so wonderful. And unlike most other incense, it's actually made from real sweetgrass leaves so when it burns it smells like outside in Alaska. Basically, I love it so much I'm blogging about it. That's saying something!