When you’re staying indoors more and more, and your home becomes your workplace, your gym and your restaurant, it's important to break up your day and break up the space. A good fragrance not only clears the air (literally), but it has the ability to change your mindset. Scents have long been used to create different emotional and psychological environments, says neuroscientist Rachel Herz, author of Scent of Desire, the preeminent study on the importance of smell in our lives.

While there are a myriad of ways to scent your environment, incense is an old school option that suddenly seems to be everywhere. Perhaps because it's so intertwined with ritual. The lighting and snuffing out of a flame, the lingering wisps of smoke curling their way through the air. There's more of a physical presence. And it seems a bit more supernatural, more charged with the ability to change the environment. Plus, it's aesthetically elevated and while investing in quality incense will run you about the same as a good candle, the incense promises more scent for longer. So, in that way, it's also a smart buy. Here's what were lighting these days.