Nandita 24 Karat Incense Sticks are hand-rolled masala sticks built from rare herbs, flowers, resins and essential oils, in a 15 g pack. Each stick burns for approximately forty-five to sixty minutes, and the character is exotic, rich and captivating.
That burn time is the specification worth leading on, because it is genuinely unusual. Most incense sticks are finished inside half an hour. These run close to double that, which changes what they are for — a stick you light at the start of a long sitting or an evening rather than one you light to freshen a room quickly.
The construction is what makes it possible. A masala stick is rolled by hand with the aromatic paste worked into the body, rather than a plain blank dipped in fragrance oil at the end. There is simply more material burning, and it burns more slowly.
Four ingredient classes are named — rare herbs, flowers, resins and essential oils — which is a fuller statement than most listings in this category will make. Individual botanicals are not published, so we describe what is named and stop there. More of the range sits in our Nandita collection.
The source listing says the fragrance invites a sense of good luck and fortune. We will not repeat that. The 24 Karat name is describing a register — the sense of something rich and worth having — and that is a fair thing for a fragrance to aim at without being a claim about anyone's circumstances.
The 15 g pack prints no stick count, so we quote none. No holder is included either, so set out a fire-safe one before lighting, and choose one that catches ash properly given how long each stick runs. More like it sits in our Incense Sticks collection.