Lately I’ve been having some problems like this and, honestly, I think it has to do with the brand of charcoal I recently bought.
The charcoal takes a while to light, but it burns very quickly and, if I end up burning a good portion of it, when I light the charcoal for the first time, it quickly dissipates, and along with it the resins, which end up clumping together and giving off a bad smell.
Very different from the first times I burned these resins with other brands of charcoal.
Therefore, when I want it to last longer, I wet it a little to avoid this high consumption of the charcoal itself and to avoid wasting my resins.
Has anyone had similar problems? How did you solve them? Or is the best thing to do to change brands?
Yeah I’d change brands. Charcoal is cheap and resins are expensive. I also get resins where I sprinkle on only a small amount at a time - that’s a massive nuggest there - to control the smoke. My charcoals disks last about an hour and are about 10c each.
It’s ok by me if I finish the ritual and the charcoal is still going, but I just don’t add any more resin. .
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I agree with Mulberry, you should change your brand of charcoal. The disks that I use, for example, tend to last close to an hour and a single resin tear will fill my area with more than enough incense smoke.
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Yes, I had some charcoal packs from another brand that were kind of hard to light and, on the other hand, took a long time to go out.
Unfortunately, I can’t find that brand anymore, and charcoal brand on Amazon; the only ones I found only had 10 discs for an absurd price, so I have to make do with local stores.
My resins do that too, but I don’t understand why they burn so quickly; it doesn’t even take 2 minutes and there’s already that horrible smell throughout the room 
It could be the quality of the resin. The tears I have seem to take forever to finish.
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Does the quality of the resin decrease over time? Because this resin was bought in 2023, it’s still almost 3 years old, and since I haven’t been able to use it enough, due to lack of opportunity, I stored it for this time and only now have I started using it for meditation and to remember how much I enjoy doing these things
As far as I am aware, resin should not lose quality over time. I have a big bag of tears that I got over ten years ago and it still burns clean.
