Highly perfumed machine-extruded perfumed-charcoal incense sticks from Malaysia. Thurga/SunRayn have bright, attractive paintings on the packets - often birds or animals. This incense is called Kalam, and the painting shows a person in thought. My careless first search turned up Kalam, the philosophical study of Islam, and I assumed the painting was of a person pondering the teachings of Islam; then a reader pointed that the painting is of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the space scientist and one time president of India.
The incense is marketed by Thurga's Industries of Malaysia who are a "manufacturer" and distributor of a range of goods. It is not clear how responsible they are for the manufacturing of these sticks; though, given the diversity of the products they sell, it seems more likely that they commission the sticks rather than make them at their own premises. They market the incense under the brand name SunRayn, though some products are branded Thurga's.
The incense is marketed by Thurga's Industries of Malaysia who are a "manufacturer" and distributor of a range of goods. It is not clear how responsible they are for the manufacturing of these sticks; though, given the diversity of the products they sell, it seems more likely that they commission the sticks rather than make them at their own premises. They market the incense under the brand name SunRayn, though some products are branded Thurga's.
The sticks are 10 1/2 inches long, with 7 1/2 inches of machine-extruded perfume-dipped charcoal on a bright rose coloured bamboo splint. There are 10 sticks in a packet. They are highly fragranced with synthetic perfume. The sticks burn for around 60 minutes, producing a steady and heady scent. When lit there is a modest flame with no evidence of black smoke, despite this clearly being a synthetic perfume. The scent is modern, attractive, heady, quite green and floral. It fills a room, and while heady, is not aggressive or harsh. The scent is reluctant to be analysed by wafting, which mainly reveals a general perfumed smoke aroma, though yields up more information when allowed to fill the room and be explored incidentally as the aroma drifts freely. The base is quite soft, offering little - the main notes are bright and floral, gently sweet and delicate and uplifting. It's a likeable scent. Limited, but likeable. Because it's bright and uplifting it would be good to burn in the morning to wake up the house.
No, this incense is named after Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a former Indian president and an aerospace scientist. The man in the picture is Dr .A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Thank you. My first thought was that Kalam would be the person in the painting, but a search for Kalam didn't throw up any likely people - but it did throw up the Islam think, and Malaysia is an Islamic country, so it all fitted.
DeleteNow updated. Thanks again.
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