Triloka Sandalwood Fire Incense Cones keep grounding sandalwood at the center of the blend and add a serene hint of jasmine behind it. The word hint is doing real work: this is not a floral incense with sandalwood underneath, but a sandalwood cone with a trace of something sweeter running through it, which is a harder balance to strike than the reverse.
What that trace changes is the top of the aroma. Sandalwood on its own is earthy, woody, and gently sweet, and it stays that way from the first minute to the last. The jasmine lifts the opening a shade and then recedes, so the cone has somewhere to travel across a burn instead of holding a single note throughout.
Approximately fourteen cones come in a twenty-gram box with a small ceramic stand included, which means the box is ready to use as it arrives. Cones are the tidier format in a small room — the ash stays in one place rather than falling along a holder — though the smoke is denser than a stick's. See the format range in our Incense Cone collection.
The cones are hand-pressed and sun-dried using the masala method, built from natural woods, herbs, gums, resins, and essential oils. Hand-pressing matters more for cones than for sticks: an unevenly packed cone burns in fits and starts, while a consistently pressed one holds a steady smolder from tip to base and gives the layered scent throw the blend is capable of.
It suits meditation, yoga, and mindfulness practice, and it does the ordinary work of making a room feel welcoming just as well. Set the ceramic stand on a fire-safe dish, since the stand itself gets warm, and let everything cool completely before you empty it. When lighting, fan the flame out rather than blowing it — the maker is specific about that.
If you would rather have sandalwood with nothing else in it at all, the plain Triloka Sandalwood Cones are the same format without the jasmine. Both sit with the wider range in our Incense collection.