Stories of scent and flavour
Where spices come from, the blending room, and the shop in Kanazawa. Writing about scent, one piece at a time.

Why We Chose Tea Bags | Used Right Down to the Spent Leaves
Inspice Chai and Vetiver Tea are not powders you dissolve; they are tea bags. Part of the aroma moves into the

A Blueprint of Exacting Precision | How an Aroma Comes Together in Our Kanazawa Atelier
Inside Inspice's blending workshop, where each aroma is drawn as a blueprint to an exacting degree of precisio

Why we put salt in chai | Rock salt gives sweetness and aroma their outline
Inspice chai contains rock salt alongside its 12 spices and tea leaves. Not to make it salty, but by design, t

The spices in Inspice Chai

A journey to explore the possibilities of vetiver.

The materials and equipment we use to make Inspice products
At Inspice, in order to offer products that are safe and sound, we are particular about what we choose - the t

Why there are two packs in a SPICE CURRY - SPICE PACK
“Why are there two packs inside?” A customer asked me this offhand question the other day. There are three rea






