Sandalwood has a distinctive soft, warm, smooth, creamy, and milky precious-wood scent. Sandalwood Sticks are integral to Indian rituals and ceremonies, to mark religious utensils, and to decorate the icons of the deities. Unlike many other aromatic woods, Sandalwood can retain their fragrance for decades.Sandalwood in all its form [powder, oil, paste, sticks] is used in all Daily Traditional practices in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Sufism, also in Chinese & Japanese rituals.