What variety of pear is used in the “sweet pear” fragrance? It's actually called (wēnpo), not duck pear or snow pear. The wēnpo (quince) is a type of pear that grows in the northwestern Shaanxi-Gansu region. However, the “sweet pear incense” was created by the Tang emperor Li Yu, and the Tang dynasty roughly corresponds to the current Anhui and Jiangxi regions. Judging from the transportation conditions and the distribution of the political map of the country at that time, it was very difficult to transport wēnpo from the northwestern region. “Sweet pear” in the incense comes “Sweet Pear Incense” is said to...