Scent on the stick is sandalwood oil, with some volatility, some dust, some fruit, some petrol. It's a sort of aged incense smell. Moderately enticing, but also moderately crude. It's a sort of budget everyday masala incense smell, and, as with the Gokula Classic Tube Rose I've just reviewed, it reminds me of Pushkar and Vrindavan incense, though more toward the Pushkar end, which I tend to find a little crude, as though too much agarbatti oil has been used, and/or there isn't someone genuinely knowledgeable in charge of scent profiling.
The scent on the burn is more attractive than the scent on the stick. It's mostly sandalwood, and it leans in toward some peppery lamb's wool, which I tend to associate with halmaddi. I'm not a fan of halmaddi, partly because I tend to have a reaction to the terpene content, but also because I find other resin fixatives, such as frankincense or benzoin, to be more attractive, and to integrate with the other fragrance ingredients more sympathetically. But it's each to their own, and I know some people are fans.
On the whole I'm not finding much here to hold my interest. This is, for me, a modest sandalwood focused incense with what feels like a basic or crude formulation. It's an OK incense, and it settles down into something quite warm, soft, and warmly pleasing, but it's not one that excites me much.
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