According to the National Fire Protection Association, from 2014 to 2018, US fire departments responded to an average of 7,600 home fires started by candles per year. These fires cause…
Although this is a daily use product in India, it was not deemed as essential by the government. (File)By Goldy NagdevUndoubtedly, incense-based products have always been an essential part…
Covid impact on the agarbatti business has been positive, except for the disruption in the supply chain.India is the biggest exporter of incense sticks with exports to 150+ countries, like…
THERE ARE FEWER scents in our lives now, and fewer opportunities to learn them. As the American philosophy scholar Larry Shiner writes in “Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and…
The American acid-rock band the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s 1967 song “Incense and Peppermints” inevitably recalls the pervasiveness of scents like patchouli during the hippie era. “Occasions,…