Josh Clark

And as we'll see, it sometimes was a literal fuse.

But incense was burned and used as a timer.

Like how quickly does that thing burn down and stop burning?

Yeah, the coolest ones, though, were incense clocks that were like a box.

And it was essentially like an intricate maze that you would pack with incense and then light it.

And there were different, I guess, stencils that you'd put on top of the box to create different times.

So like if you wanted an hour, there was a very simple maze.

If you wanted the whole night, it was a much more intricate maze.

And that's another thing I would say to look up.

There's a lot of stuff you should go and look up throughout this episode.

And incense clocks are definitely one of them.

Yeah, but I'm glad you saved this one for me because I think it's the coolest part about all of the incense clock stuff is that they had different scents.

And it just makes sense over the course of a night where you could smell the time.

So you knew when a certain smell came up what time it was, which I think is super like ingenious in its simplicity.

And also like, you know, you know what happens at Sandalwood time.

The sexiest time.

Yeah.

I've got jokes that I'm keeping to myself.

Yeah, good.

There are also alarm clocks.