Mayan White Copal Incense 20 Sticks per Pack

Great scent. Some small issues with crumbly nature of the sticks and bits falling off while lit (not great) and unlit (resulting in broken cookie effect, i.e. waste.) Still pleased. Use daily:

Last long

these sticks are cool. I never had 'white copal' before and they are def different from the 'regular copal' sticks that I know. I prefer the other ones, but hey...these arent so bad.

I would give this product negative stars if I could. When it arrived, I wasn't convinced at first that I was sent the right product, because there was no folded cardboard label like what it shown in the picture. But I found staple holes in the top of the bag, and the way the bag was sealed at the bottom was identical to the picture. Given this and the low likelihood that Amazon would have substituted a different product for one they had run out of, I concluded that it is the product I ordered and that the label just came off. Except, what I received was no where near as white as this. More of a medium gray. Almost a dark gray. Someone else here had written a review saying that it smelled like burning rubber. But since the great majority of reviewers here did not say anything similar, I assumed that this one reviewer just didn't like the smell of copal. I do like it, very much. It is similar to frankincense, but not exactly the same. There was a small hole in one end of the package where the label had come off. I sniffed it. It did not smell even remotely like copal. A lot like jasmine, but nothing at all like copal. One stick was defective, with a long section near the tip having just a thin coating on the stick. But it wasn't a bare stick, and this was revealing, because there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that this could have happened if it were made by hand like the product description claims. No possible way. I pulled that one stick out through the hole. At the very tip, for about half an inch, the full diameter of the stick was intact. So I put it on an incense holder and light it with a butane lighter. It was slow to light, but once it did, it burned vigorously. I gently blew it out, and the red glow was robust, but the flame was gone, and there was a lot of smoke. It stunk to high heaven. It really did. It did in fact smell very much like burning rubber. I quickly moved it to the kitchen sink and put just enough water on it to extinguish it. I then took a pair of wire clippers and clipped off the burnt part, which was just at the very tip, a couple of millimeters. I was surprised by what I saw. Except for a very thin outer coating, it was black as coal. At first I thought that this was probably caused by my burning it, so I clipped off a little more, then a little more, then a little more, until I was well past the point where my burning the tip for a few seconds could have altered the appearance. This is how it is made. Except for a thin exterior coating, it consists of some black substance, i.e., some sort of charcoal. There can be no doubt that this is what gives it the burnt rubber smell. I think it highly likely that the charcoal was made from rubber, and if this is correct, this means that it is made where rubber is cheap and commonplace, most likely Indonesia. Not even the very think exterior coating is copal. It smelled like Jasmin, but once it is burning you cannot even smell that. All you can smell is the burning rubber smell. And the process by which it is made is quite obviously automated, because there is no way that if it were handmade, that the exterior coating would have been applied to the stick over a section where the charcoal had broken off. And there is no possible way that a coating that thin could be applied by hand. It has to be sprayed on. I have notified Amazon that this product is decidedly not what the description says that it is, but whether Amazon stops selling it is something that remains to be seen.

A friend gave me some copal resin similar to this after I told him how great his place smelled. This is a great air freshener if you burn any incense at all.

The sacred white blood of trees, for special moon ceremonies. Brilliant copal fragrance. Intoxicating. From Mexico and handmade helps to ensure that the product is made with intention. Increasing the power of the blessings when burned.

Really enjoy these incense sticks. They allow you to have the copal scent without having to burn coal and resin.

I bought these in place of another brand (which I wasn't able to find on Amazon), so the mediocre rating is earned in comparison to what I'm used to from the other brand.These don't provide very much smoke, and the smoke isn't particularly strong scented. They also burn out very quickly. For some people, that's a good thing. But they aren't what I was hoping for. I think I'll run through these pretty quickly and I probably will not buy them again.