Mystic Spirits Amazonian Palo Santo Incense Sticks carry a sweet, woody fragrance with hints of mint and citrus, handcrafted from fragrant gums, resins, wood powders, herbs, and spices with no synthetic fillers named by the supplier.
It's worth being precise about what this actually is: a fragranced incense stick named for Palo Santo, not a raw piece of Palo Santo wood. Genuine Palo Santo is a real material we also carry in whole-wood form elsewhere in our range; this stick is built to evoke that scent profile rather than being the wood itself, and the supplier doesn't specify whether any actual Palo Santo oil or wood is part of the formula.
The product name also calls these "smudge incense sticks," a term worth a plain note on: genuine smudging is a specific practice historically associated with burning dried herb bundles, most commonly white sage, rather than lighting a stick incense. We're not going to imply this stick replicates that practice - what it reliably delivers is a pleasant, sweet, woody aroma.
Each pack holds 20 sticks with a printed burn time of approximately 45 minutes each - a specific, useful figure for planning a session, and longer than many standard masala sticks.
For anyone specifically looking for genuine Palo Santo wood rather than a fragrance interpretation of it, our Palo Santo collection carries the raw material in several formats.
Hold the stick at a 45-degree angle and light the tip. Let it burn for 10-15 seconds, then gently blow out the flame and place it in a fire-safe incense holder on a heat-safe surface. More fragrances in this handcrafted line sit in our Incense Sticks collection, and the wider range in our Incense collection.