Sandalwood Incense 200 Sticks - Morning Star

What a lovely incense! The Japanese are known for the quality and attention to detail of their products. This product breathes culture, honor, and beauty. As you might expect, the box, the sticks, the wrapping are well-crafted, well thought out, aesthetically pleasing in their visual balance, without being cliche. The sticks burn for about 30 minutes, just long enough to meditate and to perfume the air. The smoke is delicate and minimal. I don’t really know what Sandalwood smells like; every manufacturer appears to have its own take on the scent, but my impression is that it’s a forthright scent. It is a delicate scent. I actually ended up purchasing this incense in reaction to the Indian incense I’d been burning. I liked their Nag Champa scent, but the sticks shed a sawdust substance whenever I pulled a stick out of the box, and they smoked like a first time father pacing a waiting room. The smoke quickly filled my meditation space and the scent, instead of enticing and mysterious, simply bullied my olfactories in a cloying way. Maybe if I had a larger space, they’d be ok. At any rate, I’m enjoying the more delicate nature of this incense, both physically and spiritually. Meditation is a gentle art. I feel that the scents used in the practice should reflect that delicacy and gentleness. This incense fits that bill. My personal use of incense is far more spiritual than utilitarian. If I want to cover up odors, I’ll use Lysol. When I meditate, my prayers rise on the incense. The scent creates spaciousness and sets a mood. Again, this incense fits that bill. For me, the scent whispers an earthy, musky scent, with the barest whisper of floral sweetness — very well balanced with the dryness of the palate. It does not smell woody to me, but it does evoke something of tree leaves. It lifts the spirit and evokes reflection and mystery. Well worth the very reasonable price.

Perfect, nothing left over to throw away, all ash that can be used later, smells terrific, sweet, pleasant not overpowering, doesn’t smoke too much, haven’t measured burn time, but I would say less than an hour, love this one, repeat purchaser for years now. Great for my morning meditation.

Morning Star makes my favorite incense. I have enjoyed all the scents they have available and have purchased multiple times. They have a wonderful scent and burn smoothly. I like that they include a little tile incense stick holder with each package. Great for gifting.

I was tired of flower and fruit scented air fresheners that sucked out the manliness of whatever room it was sprayed in and wanted something that smelled more masculine, yet wouldn't be overly offensive towards any female company I might have. This fit the bill perfectly. I'd never really had to describe smells before, but UHHHHH I'LL TRY--- It was masculine, yep, definitely was. Morning star definitely got that right. Very woody. Would be easy for someone who had no knowledge of the product to pick up the 'flavor' of sandalwood in the air. I would not call the smell subtle, it has a nice, strong presence, but it isn't the overbearing, nausea-inducing, in your face, and just straight gross smell of cheaper incense. I've had friends who 'hate' incense, because their only experience with incense come from the aforementioned cheap products, compliment and even ORDER Morning Star incense. It does not mingle with other smells, but covers them up. Very good for after cooking, and a great benefit in making my more 'recreational' smoking habits a little more discrete. All descriptions aside, it's something that really needs to be smelled to understand (probably the weirdest sentence I've ever written). Burn time is highly satisfactory at around 30 mins. I didn't expect that and was very (pleasantly) surprised. It comes with a little ceramic square incense holder. It kinda/sorta sucks, and would probably thrown out instantly by incense 'aficionados,' who'd favor their incense holders, but for my needs it was fine. I just use the ceramic holder on top of a china plate and that works as my set up quite fine. I live 'far away' relatively speaking, so it takes a week or so to get here and the shipping rate is higher than the actual price of the product. Not really the company's fault, it's just something I have to deal with ALL the time. Anyways, with that said, the product arrived in immaculate condition. I've ordered this a total of three times and have seen damage on the packaging only ONCE. The damage was purely superficial and the sticks were always in perfect condition, regardless of the package's appearance. Simply a great product, and this is the only 5/5 review I've ever given for a product, and a rating I can give comfortably.

The product uses the same manufacturing process as the much expensive units. Same process means it uses similar materials (albeit lower cost), but the quality is leaps better then the East Indian or other south east asian counterpart. For the price you are getting a quality product with consistency, meaning each stick delivers quality scent and duration each and every time. The sandalwood in this product is in my sense a true or the closest replication of the original. Hands down, best quality for the money.

Great sandalwood incense. Burns clean not too smokey...

Esse incenso é muito bom mas não há mais disponível para compra. Gostaria de adquirir mais,.

Brilliant Japanese incense, with no stick. Pure.

I was looking for a more natural incense and I really enjoy this one. I had a problem with my delivery but the costumer service was quick to answer and help me get the package.

Beautifully made product. Clean burning, no acridity. Use it every morning during meditation