HEM Sandalwood Premium Masala Incense Sticks are crafted to time-honored recipes blending flower oil and wood powders, in a 15 g box from the Nature Series. It is the only stick in the series whose listing says what it is meant to smell of.
Sandalwood is worth the attention it gets. Santalum album is a slow-growing parasitic tree that takes decades to build up heartwood, its oil is among the most expensive naturally derived materials in perfumery, and the trade in it is tightly regulated in India as a result. It is also the quietest of the incense woods: soft, milky and creamy where cedar is dry and frankincense is resinous.
Which is exactly why the wording here deserves a careful read. The listing promises a genuine sandalwood fragrance, and a fragrance is a scent profile rather than a quantity of oil. At this price a box of sticks is not built on significant amounts of Santalum album oil, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling rather than describing. What you are buying is the sandalwood register, well made.
That is not a criticism of the product so much as a correction to the way sandalwood incense is usually sold. A good sandalwood accord in a masala stick is a pleasant, warm, low thing to burn, and it does not need to be priced like the raw oil to be worth having.
No stick count and no burn time are printed, so we quote neither. Sticks of this length commonly run around half an hour, which is an observation rather than a figure Hem gives. More of the range sits in our Hem Incense Sticks collection.
No holder is included. Set a fire-safe holder on a stable, heat-resistant surface before lighting, burn in a ventilated room away from drafts, children and pets, and let the ash and holder cool fully before they are cleared. More of the category sits in our Incense Sticks collection.