Bangalore Incense Store was set up in 2008 by Jaygee Mavalur as an outlet for his Jaygee Industries incense company. He also sells incense under the brand name Gurugee. Jaygee's family have been involved in incense making for 60 years over three generations. Sahukar Chandan is part of Jaygee's range of luxury boxes - large, often lavishly or elegantly decorated boxes usually containing flora style incense, or sticks close to that style - rich and heady with oils. They are the most expensive domestic Indian incense, and are not often exported (at least in the luxury box format). Chandan is sandalwood. Sahukar is a money lender or wealthy person. The name could be a reference to the richness of the sandalwood, or a general invocation of wealth and fortune, which is popular in Indian and Asian incense.
There is an aldehydes rich perfume on the stick. Clean linen, nail varnish remover, and freezer ice. Too volatile for comfort. The scent is softer and more welcoming on the burn, though comes with scorched paper notes. On the whole I've not really got on with this stick. It's not an ugly scent - no, it seems to go out of its way to be smooth and pleasing. It feels like Jaygee has aimed for a smooth creamy sandalwood scent, but - for my taste - has gone too far into the smooth and creamy so it presents as too much like a clothes conditioner scent, and doesn't - for me - have enough of the earthy, invigorating, and interesting notes of a natural or oily sandalwood. Your mileage may vary.
There is an aldehydes rich perfume on the stick. Clean linen, nail varnish remover, and freezer ice. Too volatile for comfort. The scent is softer and more welcoming on the burn, though comes with scorched paper notes. On the whole I've not really got on with this stick. It's not an ugly scent - no, it seems to go out of its way to be smooth and pleasing. It feels like Jaygee has aimed for a smooth creamy sandalwood scent, but - for my taste - has gone too far into the smooth and creamy so it presents as too much like a clothes conditioner scent, and doesn't - for me - have enough of the earthy, invigorating, and interesting notes of a natural or oily sandalwood. Your mileage may vary.
Available from Bangalore Incense at 50g for £1.07 ($1.41, 125 Rupees). Bangalore Incense ships internationally.
Date: Nov 2025 Score: 25
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