At Home

People often ask us what to light when they get home.

What we recommend:

• Ispalla | Incense Sticks (Palo Santo & Honey)
• Aztec | Soul Sticks | Incense Sticks (Lotus Plant)
• OM | Wood | Incense Burner

What they smell like. Palo Santo & Honey is the woody one with sweetness on top, like warm honey over wood. The lotus from the Aztec line goes another way: floral, green, drier, with nothing cloying.

When you light it. Light it as you walk in, and by the time you've dropped your keys and changed, the house already smells different from how you left it in the morning. One stick fills a small room, and the scent lingers well after it goes out.

The two scents don't clash, so you can switch between them day to day without the house ending up smelling like a mix of everything.

It comes with the burner, so there's nothing else to look for: it's wood, with a brass OM mounted at the tip, and the long channel catches the ash as it falls.

Soul Sticks is a family business in Bangalore that has been making masala incense since 1993: herbs, spices, and flowers ground and pressed onto the stick, one by one. That's the difference from dipped incense, which is a charcoal stick soaked in fragrance and burns faster.

Set the stick in the little hole, light it, and let it burn down over the channel.

Never leave it burning unattended. Keep away from children, pets, and anything flammable. Aromatic and decorative product; no medical or therapeutic benefit is attributed to it.