Hi, this is a Tiny Shelter Incense Burner. Yes, it's a box in a box. Yes, it's a two-piece geodesic dome-shaped incense burner made of hand-poured colored porcelain made here in North Carolina. Yes it comes in different colors. Of course it comes with 10 incense cones made in Maine from Balsam Fir! No, it's probably not an answer to all of the questions that are out there, but maybe, just maybe if you light the thing, take a breath and chill out for a minute you can investigate the answers to the questions in here. At least you can recycle the box and if in 10 years you don’t love it anymore you can throw it in the ocean and a crab will think it's pretty awesome and move in.