Balarama Mystic Incense Baby Powder

Mystic Incense is a Cha Cha Dum Dum brand. The incense sticks are machine extruded with a bamboo stick core, and then wrapped in tin foil. Getting them out of the tin foil is awkward. I had to remove most of the foil, and untie some string before the sticks became loose. I wanted to keep the wrapper intact so I could identify what sticks they were, and retain as much of the foil as possible in order to re-wrap the sticks and keep them fresh. Foil wrapping doesn't appear to me to be a sensible way of packaging incense sticks.

The sticks are highly scented, with volatile perfumes, indicating they have been dipped or soaked in perfume. However, the core paste appears to be more than simply charcoal, which suggests some masala ingredients. On burning there are volatile perfume notes, and an underlying burning herb note - but faint. The dominant aroma is perfume. It's an OK perfume - quite light, pleasant, base notes of sandalwood, rising through bergamont to a soft ladies perfume, like Shalimar.

The woody, musky, sensual aroma is suited to the bedroom or bathroom, or for romantic evenings. It's not appropriate for kitchens or dining rooms, as the perfume notes would intrude with the food aromas. 

Overall quite pleasant, and a decent perfumed incense. 

[Added 2024]: These sticks are made by Balarama of Thailand, who are quite possibly also the source for Kuumba incense.


Date: Sept 2013   Score: 30

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Foil wrapped incense