Acacia: burned with
Sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers
African Violet: burned for protection and to promote spirituality within
the home
Allspice: burned to attract both good luck and money
Aloes: burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations and
strength
Althea: burned for protection and to stimulate psychic powers
Anise Seeds: burned as a meditation incense
Basil: burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities (such as
demons and unfriendly ghosts), and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy,
and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when performing love divinations.
Bay: burned to facilitate the psychic powers and to induce prophetic
dream visions
Bayberry: burned mainly to attract money
Benzoin: burned for purification and to attract prosperity
Bistort: burned (often with Frankincense) as a powerful incense to aid
divination
Bracken: burned in outdoor fires to magically produce rain
Cedar: burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic
powers, attract love, prevent nightmares and heal various ailments including
head colds
Cinnamon: burned for protection and to attract money, to stimulate or
strengthen the psychic powers and aid in healing
Citron: burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen the psychic
powers
Clove: burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces,
attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip
Coconut: burned for protection
Copal: burned for purification and to attract love
Damiana: burned to facilitate psychic visions
Dittany of Crete: burned to conjure spirits and to aid in astral protection
(especially when mixed with equal parts of Benzoin, Sandalwood and Vanilla)
Dragon's Blood: burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural
entities, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn Dragon's
Blood for protection when spell-casting and invoking. When added to other incenses,
Dragon's Blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger.
Elecampane: burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying (divination
by gazing) abilities
Fern: burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain, also used to
exorcise evil supernatural entities
Frankincense: burned to dispel negativity, purify magickal spaces, protect
against evil, aid meditation, induce psychic visions, attract good luck, and
honor Pagan deities
Fumitory: burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists and evil supernatural
entities
Galangal: burned to break curses cast by sorcerers
Ginseng Root: burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection
against all forms of evil
Gotu Kola: burned to aid meditation
Heather: burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce
rain
Hibiscus Flowers: burned to attract love
Horehound: burned as an offertory incense to the Ancient Egyptian god
Horus
Jasmine: burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams
of a prophetic nature
Juniper: burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers and also
to break curses and hexes cast by evil sorcerers
Lavender: burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love (especially
of a guy)
Lilac: burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, to attract
harmony into one's life
Mace: burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers
Mastic: burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase psychic
powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses
are greatly increased when a bit of Mastic is added.
Mesquite: the magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased
when Mesquite is added.
Mint: burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities,
conjure beneficial spirits and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong
healing vibrations and protective powers.
Myrrh: burned (often in Frankincense) for purification, consecration,
healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh also aids meditation rituals, and
was commonly burned on altars in Ancient Egypt as an offering to the deities
Isis and Ra.
Nutmeg: burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase psychic powers
and to attract prosperity.
Patchouli: burned to attract money and love, and also to promote fertility
Pine: burned for purification, and to banish negative energies, exorcise
evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and
return them to their senders. *you can find a lot of pine incense at Christmas
time!
Poppy Seeds: burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love,
good luck, and money.
Rose: burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, and attract
love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and posses the strongest
love vibration of any magickal incense.
Rosemary: burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve
youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairy-folk, and promote restful sleep
and pleasant dreams.
Rue: burned to help restore health.
Sage: burned for protection against all forms of evil, and to purify
sacred spaces and ritual tools, promote wisdom, attract money, and aid in healing
the body, mind and soul.
Sagebrush: burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and
evil supernatural entities.
Sandalwood: burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial
spirits, and to promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used
by many Witches in healing rituals and in wish-magick
Solomon's Seal: burned mainly as offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities.
Star Anise Seeds: burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.
Strawberry: burned to attract love.
Sweetgrass: burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spell casting.
Thyme: burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals,
to aid in healing, and to attract good health.
Vanilla: burned to attract love, increase sexual desire and improve the
powers of the mind.
Vervain: burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities.
Vetivert: burned to break curses, and for protection against sorcery
(black magick) and thieves.
Willow: burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is
also used by many Witches as offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities.
Wisteria: burned for protection against all forms of evil.
Wormwood: burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed
with Sandalwood and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able
to conjure spirits from their graves.
From the book "Everyday Wicca" by Gerina Dunwich.