Does using Incense count as a form of Aromatherapy?

[Andrew]

My friend and I are doing a science fair project on the effect of incense on heart rate and blood pressure. The incense we are using is the kind that is burned at the end of a stick (don't know much about incense, sorry!). I'm trying to look up good notes to take for incense, but I come up with nothing. Then I found a source that mentioned aromatherapy and wondered if using incense counts.

Does using incense count as aromatherapy?
Are there any good websites to take notes from about solid incense?

 

[Tink]

Incense certainly counts - aromatherapy simple means your sniffer is at work. There is quite a bit of research on the topic, but not on incense itself. (My favorite? if they pipe certain smells in shopping malls (lemon or jasmine for example), customers buy more....maybe that men find the smell of pumpkin pie an aphrodesiac, one of the two)

Shoyeido and Fred Soll's are my favorites - I'm sure you can learn a thing or two at those sites. Tthen you might want to look up Dhoop and Masala incense as well.

 

[Dave]

Aromatherapy uses nice smelling oils that are massaged into the skin. The aroma from these is unlikely to have any detectable side effects, especially with the methods you're using.

Incense will release carbon monoxide from combustion, whether they'll be enough to measure an effect, you'll hopefully find out!

Room size and amount of incense burned will be your main things to consider.