How to Craft Your Own Loose Incense for Personalised Rituals

Loose incense is one of the oldest forms of magic.

It’s the moment smoke becomes prayer, scent becomes memory, and intention becomes form. Creating your own blend turns a simple ritual into a deeply personal offering, one shaped by your energy, your season of life, and your desired outcome.
If you’re calling in clarity, banishing stale energy, or softening into a slow evening ritual, loose incense is a beautiful way to return to yourself.

Tools & Materials:

1. A small mortar and pestle

2. Heatproof incense burner or charcoal disc burner

3. A spoon or small wooden scoop

4. Small jar or tin for storage

5. Your chosen botanicals. Some beginner favourites:

   • Resins: frankincense, myrrh, dragon’s blood

   • Herbs: rosemary, lavender, mugwort, mint, thyme

   • Flowers: rose, chamomile, calendula

   • Energetic woods: sandalwood, palo santo (ethically sourced only)

   • Citrus peels: dried orange or lemon

6. Optional: a crystal to charge your finished blend
   
   
   

Instructions:

Choose Your Intention

Every incense begins with a purpose.
What are you calling in?
What are you releasing?
Write a single keyword: clarity, comfort, courage, boundaries, devotion, intuition, joy.

Select Your Botanicals

Pick 1 resin, 2–3 herbs, and 1 flower.
Mixing fewer ingredients creates stronger, clearer magic—no need to overcomplicate it.

Grind with Presence

Place everything in your mortar and grind slowly.
Move in clockwise circles to call something in.
Move counter-clockwise to release or clear.
Let the scent rise as you breathe intention into every motion.

Store with Sacredness

Scoop your blend into a jar. Label it with:

• the name

• your intention

• the date

• a little symbol if you feel witchy (a sigil, star, moon, or doodle is perfect)

Charge (Optional but Lovely)

Place a small crystal on top of the jar overnight. Quartz, amethyst, selenite, or black tourmaline all work beautifully.

Creative Tips to Make It Yours

• Add a pinch of local plants (eucalyptus, wattle flowers, peppermint gum) to connect with your land.

• Use kitchen staples—cinnamon, clove, tea leaves, or vanilla pod scrapings.

• Create blends for specific moons, seasons, or energetic themes.

• Write a mini spell on the label: “Burn for clarity,” “Burn to return to my centre.”

• Make a “signature scent” you use only for big manifestations or monthly resets.

How to Use & Safety

• Sprinkle a pinch onto a lit charcoal disc in a heatproof burner.

• Keep away from flammable surfaces, pets, and breezy windows.

• Always stay present while it burns.

• Use for:

  • meditation

  • journaling

  • space clearing

  • new moon rituals

  • intention-setting

  • grounding after a messy day

Loose incense is slow magic.

Let it guide you back to yourself with every swirl of smoke.