Hand-rolled moist charcoal paste on a machine cut bamboo splint, and thinly coated with a fragrant yellow coloured melnoorva/masala powder. Delightful scent on the stick - a little cool and volatile with a cologne accord - slightly reminiscent of Brut with some berry fruits. A little earthy. Attractive.
It is fairly assertive on the burn, and it is a little dry and spicy to boot. The fragrance is a fairly generic "masala incense". There's some general gentle wood along with some perfume or cologne, and a touch of floral. It doesn't feel designed so much as simply thrown together. And it's not a scent I feel comfortable with burning in the same room. It's not an unattractive scent, it's just that it is a little heady or "smoky", along with dry and prickly, without enough compensating rewards of a well designed fragrance accord. There's no development - this is not a linear composition, the scents just appear all at once, like some old fashioned 1950s perfume, and then struggle to be heard amongst the noise and clamour.
And for all the heat and noise during the burn, there isn't a corresponding retention. The essence of the stick appears to be the noise of the burn, which simply leaves an echo of the clamour rather than the pleasure of the fragrance. But, for all that, it is not an offensive incense, and there are pleasant scents as part of the overall experience.
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