Baieido carefully selects its all-natural raw incense material from the finest parts of fragrant woods and spices. Such exemplary incense ingredients as Kyara and Sandalwood are brought from Viet Nam, India, and China. From Asia to Africa, we travel from nation to nation across the world to import the finest ingredients. Traveling to remote regions in these distant countries, we transport the finest hand selected natural incense ingredients based upon the strong points of their appearance and extraordinary natural aromas.

We travel to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia to find an evergreen tree of the Daphne genus. The wood of the tree itself has no significant aroma.
Although, when an ancient tree is infected by a fungus, a resin begins to form. When the tree dies a natural death, and falls to the ground, the resin continues to harden and mature. It is this resin imbued wood that is referred to as Jinko and is collected for incense. The finest selection of 
aloeswood are referred to as Kyara.

An evergreen tree of the Santalaceae family found predominantly in India. Within India, the area by the southwest coast known as the Mysore region is referred to as Sandalwood City. It is extremely famous for its production of superior quality Sandalwood as well as its high price.

The heartwood of the Sandalwood tree has been valued from ancient times for carving Buddhist statues and ritual objects. Its aroma is proclaimed of in ancient works as; "pure, powerful, emanating tranquility, when burnt it is superior to other incense aromas."

From Southern China and Indonesia wild as well as cultivated evergreen trees of the camphor family grow. Their bark is stripped and dried to become cinnamon. It is common for people to be familiar with ordinary culinary cinnamon. Although, the aroma and sweetness as well as increased potency is the finest cinnamon used in the production of incense and perfumes.

The natural habitat for these evergreen trees of the Magnolea family are limited to the regions from Northern Indonesia to Southern China. Due to its shape of 6-8 pods emanating from a central spoke; it has been often referred to as Eight-angle anise incense. In the West, it is known as Star Anise and has been used in the production of perfume and perfumed oils.

From Kyushu, China, Taiwan, and Thailand and other sub-tropical regions this evergreen tree of the Camphor family grows wild. Its bark is ground into a fine powder which is used as a binder in incense sticks.