Tulasi Nag Champa & Lavender Incense Sticks

 

Another of the Tulasi range of masala style incense sticks of Nag Champa (with an additional scent) which they have catalogued as Nag Champa Delights. 

The full range of Nag Champa Delights

This works for me. It's not a complex incense. It starts off sweet and very engaging, then settles into a "masala" scent with notes of warm wool that I associate with halmaddi. It is firm and spreads around the house quite quickly and pleasantly, informing the rooms. It burns quite quickly and fairly hot, so there's little time for subtlety or for delicate fragrances to makes themselves known. This is a broad strokes sort of incense.  It comes in, firmly announces itself, makes a general impression, then leaves. And once gone it's difficult to pin down what was there - all that you have is the general impression. 

The sticks are well made -  dry, crumbly paste neatly hand rolled onto a machine cut purple dyed bamboo splint then coated in tree bark powder. The scent on the stick is the fragrance oil - lavender and parma violets, which is where the initial sweetness comes from. The sticks when lit burn too fast, so the fragrance oil burns off in the heat, and what is left is the scent of the masala paste burning. Hmmm. I wonder if all the sticks are made with the same masala paste base, and the additional scents are the fragrance oils. 

Anyway. This is a decent enough everyday incense. Quite happy to burn it, but there's little here to hold the interest, or to get me coming back for another packet. 

I intend at some point doing a rereview 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. 

Date: June 2023   Score: 35 

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