Field guide & practice companion
Incense, read
the old way — and your way.
Egyptian kyphi, Talmudic ketoret, Heian-period nerikoh — researched, referenced, and put to use. Build formulas grounded in history, track your pantry and your batches, and learn to read what the smoke tells you.
Six rooms, one practice
Everything an incense practitioner actually needs
Reference material stays free. The tools that hold your own work — formulas, pantry, batches, readings — are part of the subscription.
The Library
Historical reference across Egyptian, Hebrew, Japanese, Roman & Greek, and Mesopotamian incense traditions, plus a searchable reference of 15+ raw ingredients — origin, burn notes, and cautions for each.
The Grimoire
Choose an intention — honoring the dead, love, prosperity, clearing, protection, meditation, dreams, celebration, or your own — and receive a historically-grounded formulation, with an original spell to recite while you make and light it.
The Formulary
Every formulation you've generated, kept and organized by intention, with the full spell on hand whenever you return to it.
The Apothecary
A working pantry tracker for your ingredients — category, status, source — alongside a batch journal that logs start date, base, notes, and age, calculated automatically.
The Reading
A reference on libanomancy and capnomancy — the old arts of reading incense and fire smoke — with traditional pattern meanings laid out plainly.
The Journal
Your own log of smoke readings over time — what you saw, what it meant, and how your interpretation sharpens with practice.
Most incense apps treat this as a wellness aesthetic. We treat it as a craft — the same way you'd treat woodworking, or bread.
About Secrets of Smoke We're a small incense practice, eight years into fermented kyphi-nerikoh hybrid blends and a home apothecary built ingredient by ingredient — aloeswood, onycha, labdanum, galbanum. This app channels that research directly: Egyptian temple recipes, the Talmudic ketoret formula, Heian-period kneaded incense traditions — not generic wellness copy.
Pricing
Free to learn. A subscription to practice.
The Library and The Reading are free, permanently. Everything that holds your personal work — the Grimoire, Formulary, Apothecary, and Journal — comes with a subscription.
Monthly
- Unlimited Grimoire formulations
- Full Formulary archive
- Apothecary pantry & batch tracking
- Personal smoke-reading journal
Yearly
- Everything in Monthly
- Equivalent to $2.92/month
- Best for an ongoing practice
Two months free compared to paying monthly.
First word on limited batches
We hand-make incense in small batches — sold when they're gone, not restocked. Join the list to hear first, before any public announcement.
No spam — just batch drops and the occasional dispatch from the apothecary.