Nag Champa Floral Incense Sticks

After receiving a free sample of incense from a spa Open Day, my husband and I have been a little incense crazy. We have tried literally everything in terms of keeping our flat smelling nice - from plug-ins to reed diffusers to sprays to gels, we've experienced the brief, momentary 'ahh!' of the product's first whiff, and then been disappointed as the smell quickly dissipated, lost to the other smells of the apartment. We had had most success with the plug-in, but stories of plug-ins randomly causing fires put us off slightly. So following this spa Open Day, we decided to try the incense they threw in with our gift bags - we burned it in the master bedroom with the door ...  Read the complete review

Old hippies never die, and nothing can take me back to those heady days of tie-dyes, afghan coats, cheesecloth, patchouli, beads and flowers more than the smell of Nag Champa joss sticks (incense sticks). I suspect that part of the reason why hippie/hairy types used joss sticks was to drown out the smell of various illegal substances, and they became part of the overall atmosphere of mysticism which was prevalent at the time. As the 1970s evolved and the hippie movement all but disintegrated, I found it increasingly difficult to buy decent-smelling joss sticks, and the only place I could buy those which were authentically Indian was in a local shop called ...  Read the complete review