Gamta are a fairly new Mumbai based incense house which use Panchgavya products in their incense - which means they utilise cow by-products, such as milk, urine, dung, ghee, and curd, according to Ayurveda principles. Heena is an alternative spelling of henna, the red dye used as a body decoration and hair colouring. Henna has a mild scent of earth, cloves, or green tea, which divides opinion. It is occasionally used as an incense fragrance, such as Aargee Maharani Heena and Om Sai's Trishala Heena.
The scent on the stick is pleasant and mildly interesting. Like the Authentic Agarwood there is a tension between the liquid perfume ingredients and the finely ground fragrance (masala?) ingredients which doesn't satisfactorily resolve - the scent on this stick feels sharp and synthetic, somewhat dominating the more natural and interesting fragrances. On the whole, though kinda interesting, this is not altogether an aesthetically pleasing scent - not one I'm likely to use as a room freshener before guests come round.
The burn is steady and consistent - something I find with machine made or extruded sticks (the only real benefit from hand rolled sticks is the random nature of them, which makes burning them more of an interesting and organic experience - though I also like the romance of a hand rolled stick, which feels more appropriate for a traditional and subjective pleasure product such as incense). The fragrance settles fairly quickly, and while not being too assertive, does make itself known in the room. It is a pleasant perfumed scent - floral, hovering around a heady slightly damp rose, earthy, mushroomy, mild wood, some clove... Yeah, it's OK. It feels more natural on the burn than it does on the stick.
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