Ullas Spiritual Mandala incense sticks

I got this incense directly from the manufacturer in a pack of 1 dozen along with a few other Ullas incenses. The current selling price is Rs. 349 (after a discount of 50%) for a dozen boxes of 10 sticks each. The order was delivered within 2 days to Bangalore (It was also shipped from Bangalore). It is manufactured by PATIL PARIMALA WORKS, founded by Mr. P. M. Patil, in 1978 in Bangalore. I’ve also read somewhere on the internet that it used to be called Sri Durga Perfumery.

Unlit, the incense stick smells perfumy and has a strong scent of Khus. When I say perfumy, I mean that the scent on the stick is so intense it almost feels like a fragrant punch in the face and it has some notes of sharpness that smells like a chemical that was used to dilute the fragrance. I also use perfumy almost exclusively for fragrance blends rather than single-note scents.

When I describe any scent or note as ‘oily’ I mean that it smells like a single-note attar. They may or may not have a chemical fragrance note on the stick.

Some Indian incenses smell like a wonderful blend and have a soft and sweet fragrance on the stick, without any strong or pungent synthetic notes but I can’t swear to the fact that these incenses are 100% natural.

Anyway, coming back to Ullas Spiritual Mandala, I really like the minty freshness of Khus even if it’s synthetic. There’s also a rose-like floral sweetness that initially made me go “Wow!”. However, the burnt stick sings a completely different song. There is no trace of khus but there is a little bit of green freshness and the rose is quite prominent in the form of a gulkand-dominated meetha paan fragrance. The slight smokiness, if sitting quite close to the stick, is more of an appetising smokiness rather than something tobacco-like.

My rating for Ullas Spiritual Mandala incense:

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Rating: 4 out of 5.