1. What is incense paper?

A new old way to scent your home and travels. Paper infused with a blend of resins and plant oils that when burned provides an ambient scent.  A single strip is often enough to scent multiple rooms or entire apartments. A tiny tear off is enough to scent a room for hours.

2. How do I use incense paper?

FOLD LIGHT BLOW: tear out a perforated strip, accordion fold, light, and extinguish the flame. Allow the paper to slowly smolder on a fire safe surface. A gently stream of smoke will quickly diffuse and scent the intended space.

3. What kind of paper do you use?

We use paper made of tree-free cellulose sourced from a 400 year old French manufacturer. It’s roller-pressed, hand-torn, and air-dried.

4. What about the scents?

Our scents are created using a combination of tree resins, plant oils, and premium fragrance molecules. We spend a lot of time making sure our process and products are environmentally friendly and non-toxic. There are no parabens, no phthalates, no adipates, nothing you cannot pronounce. We happily spend more on fragrance ingredients that most fragrance houses and we strive to source ingredients sustainably and responsibly.

5. Are your scents all natural?

Basically. We often use nature identical molecules and this means we cannot technically say ‘all-natural’. Put another way, modern perfumery did not exist until coumarin was separated from tonka beans and vanillin extracted from vanilla. Even if the molecules are separated from natural materials, this process of separation renders them technical ‘un-natural.’ We are happy to make this distinction in the name of transparency. We stand by the fragrance materials we use and we are confident our paper burns cleaner than almost any scented candle on the market.

6. How are your products manufactured?

All of our papers are hand crafted via a 16 step process in our temporary HQ in Lawrence, Kansas. Every aspect of production and design is done in-house. This includes our scents which are formulated, compounded and aged completely by us.

7. What does PONSONT mean?

Our name is a nod and a wink to the industrious Auguste Ponsot, the French entrepreneur who created the first incense paper in 1885. But there's more to the story... 

8. Why the fox?

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” 
―The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry