Author: Incense from India

A wonderful warm vanilla aroma.

VANILLA is often used as a fragrance ingredient in creating many oriental perfumes. It blends well with scents such as sandalwood, vertiver, benzoin, balsam, and other spice oils. Its essence can be both soothing and healing.

CHARCOAL is integral in the manufacturing of an unscented blank (non-perfumed stick) which is then dipped into a mixture of perfumes and/or oils.

These blanks usually contain "spent" sandalwood powder, a binding sticky resin that hold the sticks coating together, wood charcoal and sometimes other substances.

Most charcoal incenses are black or near black in color, and are distinctive because they are rich in aromatic perfumes.

Indian charcoal sticks contrast from the "punks" in that they are dipped in superior perfumes, and burn smoothly without producing irritating smokey by-products.