Tag: sandalwood

  • About Morning Star Rose

    About Morning Star Rose

    Morning Star Rose Incense is a beautiful marriage of the classic, dry, light, cooling Japanese type sandalwood and the ever so slight element of rose petals. If you’re looking for a very light, barely-there type of rose, you have found it. Sometimes floral incenses, particularly rose can be overbearing. With Morning Star Rose Incense, that…

  • About Morning Star Sandalwood

    About Morning Star Sandalwood

    Morning Star Sandalwood incense has been around for so very long and has remained unchanged. It’s a classic example of a Japanese sandalwood incense. It’s very light, dry, clean and cooling. It is an incense that can be appreciated even in small rooms as it doesn’t give off much smoke and the fragrance its self…

  • About Nikhil’s Ananda Incense

    About Nikhil’s Ananda Incense

    We have been impressed with the offerings from Nikhil. Sometimes it’s known as Ananda Happiness as its label indicates. We sampled Nikhil’s Ananda and knew right away that we needed to have this item. Nikhil’s Ananda is a lightly sweetened sandalwood, fortified with sandalwood oil. It compares well to incenses considerably more expensive, even more…

  • About Superb Sandal Incense

    About Superb Sandal Incense

    We probably have dozens of sandalwood incenses, how do we choose which one to write about? It’s not just a random decision, we chose Superb Sandal because it’s one of our favorites, and we hope it can become on of yours as well. It’s made by Haridus Madhavdas, the makers of Amethyst, Egyptian, and Green…

  • About Mysore Sugandhi Chandan Dhoop

    About Mysore Sugandhi Chandan Dhoop

    The title alone is quite a mouthful, but once broken down, it’s not so bad. Mysore is a city in southern India, so that’s easy. Sugandhi refers to something fragrant and delightful. Chandan refers to sandalwood. Dhoop are incenses that do not have a bamboo core. Now that the nuts and bolts of the title…

  • About Balaji Chandan

    About Balaji Chandan

    Chandan is fancy talk for sandalwood. There are likely thousands of different sandalwood incenses. We ourselves probably have a few dozen, each so very different from the next. One of our very favorites is Balaji Chandan. We weren’t surprised as the entire Balaji line is so wonderful. It’s a fairly potent sandalwood fortified with sandalwood…

  • Hari Darshan Copal + Sandalo

    Hari Darshan Copal + Sandalo

    One of the perks of what we do is that we get to try out all kinds of new incenses. Sometimes it’s not much of a thrill, but now and again, something comes up that wows us. Hari Darshan Copal + Sandalo Incense is one of those items that we checked out and went gaga…