Na Swa Incense Sticks - Box of 40 Yerba Santa The gentlest of the three

The gentlest of the three blends in this cluster

a different species and a different botanical family from Santalum album

Used by the Romans for varnishes and pigments

this is the Stupa workshop's Kathmandu version

The pre-Columbian register

Na Swa Incense Sticks - Box of 40 Yerba Santa The gentlest of the threeNa Swa is a single material: spikenard, the aromatic root the Himalaya knows as jatamansi. It is one of the oldest scented materials on record, deep and earthy, mossy and slightly animal, with a warm balsamic weight that is hard to mistake for anything else. The stick is the root and little else, hand rolled from natural materials with no bamboo core. For anyone who wants to meet a single ancient material on its own terms.