Japanese designer Kazuya Koike has used a fragrant Japanese wood to carve a set of sake cups that fit as caps onto carafes. ... you'll smell the refined fragrance of Yoshino cedar in the air, ...

Though hinoki has long been used in perfumery, the fragrance is having an aromatic moment in both the home and personal fragrance markets, with the citrus-tinged dry wood serving as the heart of ...

But beyond the visual, the machiya supplies fragrance and texture too. That evening I lie in a Japanese cedar-wood bath whose aroma reminds me of forest clearings in the Kamikochi Valley.

Japanese designer Kazuya Koike has used a fragrant Japanese wood to carve a set of sake cups that fit onto carafes as caps. Koike created the small vessels from Yoshino cedar – a wood native to ...