How to make incense smell only concentrated to one room and how to make it milder

First off I love incense, it helps me creatively a lot. I love smoky smells and I love plant smells and I love lighting stuff. Perfect combo.

But my mom, who is afflicted with a sensitive nose, and my dad, who is a dramatic, energetically vampiric little bitch who always has something to say and who I’m beginning to tolerate less and less as I go deeper into my 20’s, are both finding the smell to be a bit much. My mom politely asked me to keep the scent down so as not to stink up the whole house a few times while understanding the effect it has on my creativity, and my dad stormed in all like “YOU’RE GONNA END UP DEAD BREATHING IN ALL THIS SHIT YOU BURN, YOURE STINKING UP THE WHOLE HOUSE.”

Mind you, I only burn one stick in the morning/afternoon and one stick in the late evening and I keep a window open. It’s not like I hotbox my room with 10 incense sticks every day.

So now I want to figure out

1. how to keep the smell contained to just my room

2. how to make the smell a little more mild but present

And before you tell me to switch to burning resin, I only do stick for now. I have too much good stick incense to just toss