Nandita Vampire Blood Incense Cones are backflow-style dhoop cones carrying sandalwood notes with benzoin and dragon's blood resin, from a blend of herbs, flowers, natural resins and essential oils. Ten cones per box, approximately twenty to thirty minutes per cone.
This listing states more than almost anything else in the Nandita range: a cone count, a burn time, and two resins named individually. Benzoin is a Styrax resin, warm and sweet with something close to vanilla in it; dragon's blood is the deep red resin that bleeds from Daemonorops and Dracaena trees. They pair well because benzoin rounds off the edges dragon's blood has on its own.
Backflow-style is the specification that needs explaining, because it changes what you need to buy. These cones have a hollow channel running through the middle. Set on a backflow burner, the cooler and heavier smoke sinks through that channel and spills downward over the burner like water rather than rising, which is the entire point of the format.
No burner is included, and this is worth being plain about: without one, the cones burn perfectly well on any heat-resistant dish, but you get fragrance and no falling smoke. The effect is a property of the burner's shape as much as the cone's. Burners sit in our Backflow Incense Cones collection.
Against the Vampire Blood sticks, the trade is concentration versus length. A cone puts more fragrance into a room over twenty to thirty minutes; the sticks release the same character more gradually across forty-five to sixty. Both sit in our Nandita collection.
The dragon and vampire imagery is the brand's framing rather than a claim, and we leave it as framing. Burn on a heat-resistant surface with clear space around the burner, since backflow smoke spills outward, and never leave a burning cone unattended.