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This funeral aesthetics brand in China just released pet memorial incense for Qingming

This funeral aesthetics brand in China just released pet memorial incense for Qingming

In China, one funeral brand is quietly changing how people deal with loss — and yes, it involves incense for pets 🐾 Founded in 2023 by former furniture entrepre

In China, one funeral brand is quietly changing how people deal with loss — and yes, it involves incense for pets 🐾

Founded in 2023 by former furniture entrepreneur Gao Guqi, Guicong (often described online as “the funeral industry’s aesthetic brand”) has been rethinking death rituals with a softer, design-driven approach. Instead of cold, taboo-heavy funeral items, it creates objects that actually feel like they belong in your home.

Right before Qingming Festival — China’s traditional tomb-sweeping holiday — Guicong dropped a new collab with lifestyle brand LA FADEUR: a pet memorial incense gift set called “Zhihan Xiangwei.”

The idea came from a real story. The founder of LA FADEUR lost their cat, and the product is basically a quiet way to process that kind of grief. The set includes three scents, each tied to a different emotion — companionship, comfort, and remembrance.

But the detail people are talking about? Each incense tube hides short poems from writers around the world. So lighting it isn’t just ritual — it becomes a small, daily moment to sit with the memory.

This isn’t Greatroam’s first move into the pet space either. They previously launched a minimalist pet urn called “A Seed,” designed to store ashes alongside things like fur or whiskers — turning remembrance into something more personal.

Low-key, this says a lot about where things are going in China: even something as heavy as death is getting redesigned with warmth, aesthetics, and everyday rituals 🌿

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