Incense and wood used to be dark, forbidding, sawdust, stone butch. No more. Recent releases have modulated the juice in this genre to a mellower tone that is succulent and fascinating. I have been wearing Estee Lauder Sensuous, Chanel Sycomore, and Jo Malone The Kohdo Wood Collection. Also in rotation are the masterful and mysterious Bulgari Black and Serge Lutens Five O'Clock au Gingembre. Stay tuned for my notes on these and other fragrances in this constellation.