Ketaki, or kewda or kewra is the distilled essence of the screw pine or pandanus plant, which is used as a flavouring in Asian and Indian cooking, particularly biryani. It is sometimes used as a fragrance in Indian incense. The flower is not commonly used in temples, though is often seen as a decoration on female gods. It has a scent similar to fruity rose-water.
Cottage Industries is part of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Incense making was set up by Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, in 1949 to provide the ashram with low cost, everyday incense. Auroshika, One Aromatics, Meadows, and The Mother's sell incense associated with the ashram and related projects. I tend to find the incense to be old fashioned, simple, and dry. Others like them, and The Mother's has a good reputation among some incense enthusiasts.
The appearance is of a perfumed-charcoal stick. It is neat enough to have been machine-extruded, though I suspect not. There's a neat fruity-floral scent on the stick. Quite juicy with a touch of orange and a hint of musk. Yeah. Nice.
The scent on the burn I'm not keen on. It's muggy, grey, and heavy. There's wet cardboard and burnt toast weighing down on stewed corn and minor notes of boiled honey and damp flower petals. I had some hope that this would be a Cottage incense I would like. Sadly not....
Cottage Industries is part of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Incense making was set up by Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, in 1949 to provide the ashram with low cost, everyday incense. Auroshika, One Aromatics, Meadows, and The Mother's sell incense associated with the ashram and related projects. I tend to find the incense to be old fashioned, simple, and dry. Others like them, and The Mother's has a good reputation among some incense enthusiasts.
The appearance is of a perfumed-charcoal stick. It is neat enough to have been machine-extruded, though I suspect not. There's a neat fruity-floral scent on the stick. Quite juicy with a touch of orange and a hint of musk. Yeah. Nice.
The scent on the burn I'm not keen on. It's muggy, grey, and heavy. There's wet cardboard and burnt toast weighing down on stewed corn and minor notes of boiled honey and damp flower petals. I had some hope that this would be a Cottage incense I would like. Sadly not....
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