APFR Handmade Incense Sticks in Gift Tube

We love these Incense sticks. We cannot get enough of each and every delicious scent. Each product is hand-dipped at the APFR workshop. Choose your favorite fragrance from a wide variety of scents or collect them all to match the mood or occasion. Enjoy the fragrance and the mesmerizing patterns of smoke that only incense can offer.

Made in Japan | Gift Tube: 25 Sticks | Burning time: 100 min per stick 

APFR is an artisanal, handmade fragrance brand. Their products are blended, produced, packaged, and shipped by crafters at our Chiba, Japan workshop. The brand name is derived from the German word apotheke, meaning a place where fragrances and medicinal herbs are prepared, or in more modern parlance, a pharmacy. Like your neighborhood pharmacy, APFR stays true to their customers’ lifestyles, prescribing scents for their everyday lives.

The brand story begins ten years before its birth. Founder Keita Sugasawa, in his travels to different countries, was both impressed and surprised at the number of shops selling scented oils and incense. He was also surprised at the lack of such shops in within Japan. After returning to Japan, Sugasawa took a position at a Japanese fragrance maker as his first step to learning the ins and outs of the craft. In 2011, he established his own atelier in his boyhood home of Chiba Prefecture. This atelier became the new home of this hand-crafted fragrance brand.