Royal Sandalwood Incense Sticks Nag Champa and South Asian craft

and South Asian craft

and fading in strong sun: long called an evening stone

the stone Rome cut into signet rings because hot wax would not stick to it

It is the opaque cousin of carnelian - the same iron-coloured chalcedony

balsam and char with faint slow-emerging sweetness

Royal Sandalwood Incense Sticks Nag Champa and South Asian craftRoyal Sandalwood is the highest grade in the Mysore workshop's range pure Santalum album heartwood, hand rolled into sticks with no synthetic fragrance and no bamboo core. The species has scented Indian Ocean trade for two thousand years; Khaleeji perfumery is built around it. On the stick, the sandalwood register opens slow. The first three minutes carry a creamy, woody note; the burn deepens into the resinous warmth of santalol concentrated in older