My pack is "Organic Rose", and on the Nandita website it is shown as "Organic Rose", but I have seen some batches marked "Original Rose", which I think are more recent UK stock. Much agriculture in India is organic, but it is not officially classed as such in the UK, unless it has been certified by a soil association. Organic soil associations charge a fee to check that production is organic. Many farmers cannot afford such a fee. I tend to avoid products from abroad which are certified organic because of that. If a food product comes from India or Egypt, it is almost certainly organic, without the need for a third party certification.
As with most recent Nandita incense I've had, this is a machine extruded stick, with a light dusting of powder. It is presented as a masala incense, but it is unclear what that means in this context, as this is clearly a perfumed product. The scent on the stick is fairly charming, but rather simplistic and synthetic. There's some rose, some dark fruits, some tobacco, a little wood, and a little spice.
The scent on the burn is gentle, floral, fruity, green, kinda fresh, warm wood, modest spice. It's a nice scent. A modest room freshener. It's not significantly rose like. Which is OK for me. But there's not much of interest here. Yeah, it's pleasant, but it's not engaging my attention. This is a pleasant but rather modest room freshener.
The scent on the burn is gentle, floral, fruity, green, kinda fresh, warm wood, modest spice. It's a nice scent. A modest room freshener. It's not significantly rose like. Which is OK for me. But there's not much of interest here. Yeah, it's pleasant, but it's not engaging my attention. This is a pleasant but rather modest room freshener.
You brought up a really interesting point about organic food, Steve. The use of pesticides and fertilizers is a fairly recent development in India, and in fact, there's a growing movement towards organic farming here. The main goal behind it is to make farming more sustainable. A significant portion of Indian agriculture, aside from a few areas, is still largely organic. We saved money; we collected cow dung over six months, composted it, and used it on our farm. This composting resulted in 42 tractor-trailers of compost for our wheat crop this season.
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