Featured Product of the Day: Nag Champa Incense

Our featured product today is Nag Champa incense. We often have people come into our shops and ask what smells so good. While we do carry many varieties of incense, Nag Champa is by far our most popular and the one we burn in our shops the most often.

No one knows exactly how long Nag Champa, specifically, has been around, but incense in general has been burned for thousands of years. Many historians believe that Nag Champa was probably first created by Hindu and Buddhist monasteries in Nepal and India. Over the years, as more Westerners began to travel to the East in search of enlightenment, Nag Champa was spread around the world. Today, Nag Champa is one of the most popular incenses in existence.

Nag Champa is made primarily from the flowers of the Champa tree. These flowers have an earthly, rich, and ethereal scent. These flowers are also called Plumeria in Western culture. While the ingredients of Nag Champa differ from company to company, many formulas also include sandalwood and halmaddi, a resin derived from the Ailanthus malabarica tree.

Nag Champa originally became popular in ashrams, in front of alters, and for personal meditation. Today, however, Nag Champa is enjoyed and appreciated by many people for both spiritual and non-spiritual reasons.

Sources:
http://www.suite101.com/content/nag-champa-incense-a151163
http://www.incensum.in/Nag%20Champa.aspx
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-nag-champa.htm