Temple of Incense – Nag Champa Gold Incense Sticks

Description

This Nag Champa Gold incense is a traditionally made example of a time-honoured favourite. These are produced by a small family business in India, making their incense to secret recipes handed down through generations, especially for temple worship.

Packed full of halmaddi (Read more about this below)  is Nag Champa – amped up and smothered in gold dust.

Each box contains 20 luxury incense sticks

What is Halmaddi resin?

Here’s a bit about one of our favourite ingredients in incense – Halmaddi.

You may hear us talk about Halmaddi a lot. Halmaddi resin is in the beautiful base of most of our masala incense. It is the natural gum that holds all the gorgeous oils and ingredients together on the humble bamboo stick.

Much like frankincense, myrrh and benzoin, Halmaddi is a type of natural resin. It is derived from the Ailanthus Malabarica tree, which is native to the Western Ghats of India. The rich, earth-coloured liquid is molasses like when it is fresh and hardens to a brittle resin with a floral, balsamic smell when it ages.

It’s an ingredient that has been used in incense-making for centuries. Not only is the fragrance distinctive (and addictive), it has a magical ability to help the incense oils, woods and herbs bind together and burn slowly and evenly.

So much cheaper incense is mass produced these days, and to make it quickly and cheaply, shortcuts are made. The first being – cutting the use of Halmaddi. Temple of Incense has committed to high quality incense made with lots of Halmaddi which is harvested consciously and ethically. That’s one of the ways we honour the tradition of real incense.