Tulasi have a range of nag champa sticks, such as the Nag Champa & Rose, where nag champa is blended with other scents; this is a straight nag champa. Straight from the pack it gives the appearance of proper job masala sticks, and I love the scent - proper nag champa: sweet and sexy with that awesome blend of creamy sandalwood and light floral champaca.
The stick has a now-dry charcoal paste which has been tightly hand rolled on a machine-cut orange dyed bamboo splint. It has been modestly covered in a wood powder. Some manufacturers apply a generous fluffy amount of powder, others barely any, and others still, as here, have the paste fully covered, but with no excess.
There are elements to the scent both on the stick and on the burn that is suggestive of dried ingredients being burned. Qualities that I associate with the scent of dried ingredients being burned. A kind of greener, more natural, heavier, slower and more lingering scent. So these sticks have both dried fragrant ingredients and a liquid fragrance. My assumption is that the dried ingredients are likely to be the sandalwood, while the liquid fragrance is an absolute or essential oil of champaca. The blend is lovely. Burned a couple of sticks (they are not long burners) and liked them. For me they have that wonderful blend of wood and floral which is at the heart of a good nag champa. The liquid fragrance appears to be decent quality - perhaps not an absolute at the price point, but at least a decent essential oil.
And now I think it would be fun to do a Nag Champa v Nag Champa burn off - see which Nag Champa is top of the dhoops!
I intend at some point doing a re-review and comparison of the whole series. Meanwhile, I'm marking this, and all the other Nag Champa Delights, as 35 - midway in my "Enjoyable, decent quality scents" ranking.
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