Huang Tingjian, a representative scholar-bureaucrat in the Song Dynasty, has a frame called "Infang-making Incense Recipe", which is now collected in the "National Palace Museum" in Taipei. This note is now regarded as a masterpiece of calligraphy art, but it was originally an incense recipe written by Huang Tingjian from memory for a friend. It can be seen that at that time, literati like him had some classic incense recipes in their minds. This is probably the best evidence that the upper class society in the Song Dynasty was so enthusiastic about incense tasting that they bravely went into battle and did it themselves.

The characteristics of Song Dynasty culture can be said to be pure and simple, which contains extreme elegance and refinement. Unfortunately, among the cultural achievements that fully embody this characteristic, only poetry, porcelain, and paintings have survived to this day. However, the highly developed incense industry at that time, like the music and dance of the time, can only be understood through documented records. Even so, even if we only glimpse the fragments of the literati's writings at that time, the prosperity and splendor of the incense affairs of the Song Dynasty are still enough to make future generations amazed and envious. In fact, someone should tell you the high-end story of Song Dynasty people's taste of fragrance.

In the upper class society of that era, burning famous incense in the incense burner was a routine setting that could not be interrupted 24 hours a day. The dense fragrance was almost the same as that in some public places or coffee shops today. Like ambient music, it is a basic background for the unfolding of life. It seems that without it, life cannot flow normally. Since the content of life itself is diverse, accordingly, there should be fragrances with matching charms to match. As a result, during the Song Dynasty, there were a wide variety of incense products with different raw materials, different techniques and different fragrances, which were suitable for fumigating clothes, entertaining guests, outdoors, or sleeping tents at night. Even for those that relieve hangovers and soothe the nerves, probably only the sensitive noses of the Song Dynasty people can accurately receive the subtle differences in the aromas that convey the codes that can affect the soul.