What is the Catholic church incense used during Holidays ?

[Lin19687]

Since I have not been in a church since childhood, and my Mum is dead so I can't ask her, I thought maybe someone would know.

I LOVE that smell. Found a candle at Burlington Coat factory with it last year but they only had one candle. It is burnt down to nothing

Anyone know what this combination of scents are ? Would love to have this in a FO if I could find it.
Would like to make a soap and candle melts (just for me since I don't really make them).

Thanks in advance

 

[OldHippie]

And the Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy; and you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy. And the incense which you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be for you holy to the Lord. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.” (Exodus 30:34-38)

 

[lenarenee]

Is there anything identifying the manufacturer of the candle?
The Catholic Church uses a lot of frankincense resin - but that's all I know. I LOVE the scent so much I even forked out the cash to buy an electric resin burner and sustainably harvested, fair trade (mostly) resin from a dealer on Etsy. If you pm me with an address, I can send you a few tears of different types.

 

[Lin19687]

It was just a generic name on the candle, I googled for weeks, nothing

Thank you for the offer but I am looking for what would be in the incense so dupe it. It IS an intoxicating scent when you grow up with it.

It has to have more then Frankincense and Myrrh in it, no ?? I have that in am EO but it does not smell like that.

I don't want to admit that I have been googling this on and off thru out the day

 

[amd]

I was Catholic until age 13, and I'll admit that I loved the smell of incense. I think that's why I like Dragon's Blood, it is the closest smell I have found to it. Is there a church nearby that you could go talk to the priest? Maybe an in person visit would be better received, with an explanation of what you are doing. Just be careful, you may end up in the confessional booth. (Practice your Hail Mary just in case!)

 

[Lin19687]

haha, I am a Pagan now. Not sure they would like me in there lol
But thanks.

 

[zanzalawi]

haha, I am a Pagan now. Not sure they would like me in there lol
But thanks.

haha! you could probably still find some common ground with Mary

 

[NsMar42111]

Don't walk in and go "I'm PAGAN and heyyyyy what's that smell?" and you'll be fine. Just go in and ask, if it's a respectable church they welcome people of any belief system. A simple "what is the incese you use(d)?" will suffice, no need for lengthy theological discourses for that

 

[Susie]

Frankincense normally. Some churches add Myrrh.

 

[soapmaker]

I don't know anything about the Catholic church smell, but I have customers that tell me often that my Frankincense and Myrrh soap smells like incense in the church. It is WSP's. And yes I can say it is wonderful. I bought F & M from ND and still have the whole bottle. It smells nothing like F & M.