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Sweetgrass

Vanilla- and hay-scented grass that is braided and used in many North American Indigenous traditions.

Scent family: Sweet
Listed in Dupa Incense: 1 incense

A clump of green sweetgrass — Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata) at the Wrocław University Botanical Garden. Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0

In pictures

Sweetgrass flower spikelets — The spikelets of Hierochloe odorata. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0

Incense with this material

Material: Sweetgrass

Traditional / raw material

Sweetgrass Braid

United States · Herb bundle

Found in these traditions

The Americas5 incense

Same scent family

Photo credits (4)

Photos were resized, converted to WebP and may be cropped for display. Each keeps its original license.

Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata) at the Wrocław University Botanical Garden. Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0
Smoke from copal and myrrh at a market in Mexico. Merystef, CC BY-SA 4.0
Blocks of comb honey. Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0
Ylang-ylang flower (Cananga odorata). Prenn, CC BY-SA 3.0