Multitrance Cannabis Incense Sticks, Dry Cannabis Leaves, 6 Packs

The base every flavoured stick in the range is built on

Dry Cannabis Leaves is the one scent in the Multitrance-branded line with nothing added, and the nine flavoured sticks are all this accord with a second note on top, so it is the reference against which every other stick in the range can be read.

Scented incense is a wood-and-resin paste on a bamboo core with a fragrance accord worked through it, and in this range the accord that gives the line its name is a dried cannabis leaf note: warm, herbal, hay-like, with a faintly peppery, resinous edge once it is burning. On this stick that is all there is. On the Vanilla, Lemon, Cookies and the rest, the same note sits underneath something sweeter or brighter, and how much of it survives depends on what has been put on top.

Our distributor and the maker describe the stick as made in India, hand-rolled, fifteen to a pack with a burn of thirty to forty-five minutes, and as a natural, earthy cannabis aroma for fragrance only. That is accurate as far as it goes. What no seller says is the useful thing: that this is the stick that tells you what the other eight smell like underneath. The Fresh Cannabis Leaves page covers the one real alternative base, the green rather than the dried note, and why drying turns a sharp green leaf into something closer to hay; we will not repeat it here beyond saying that the blends in this range are all built on the dried version, this one.

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scent in the Multitrance-branded line with nothing added: this one

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flavoured scents in the same line, every one built on this base

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sticks in the six-pack order, 15 a pack

What each blend adds to this base

Read against this stick, every flavoured scent in the range does one of four things to the dry-leaf note: covers it, rounds it, lifts it or sharpens it, and the table says which.

This is the map nobody selling the range publishes, and it is the most useful thing on the page if you are trying to choose. Each row is this stick plus one accord, and the third column says what that accord does to the base you can smell here. Covering scents bury the cannabis note under something heavier. Rounding scents soften it without hiding it. Lifting scents put a bright top note over it that fades back to the base. Sharpening scents make the base read drier and greener than it does alone.

The live comparison beneath the table reads the incense shelf as it stands today.

One pack of this stick will tell you which blend to buy

Burn a single Dry Cannabis Leaves stick in the room you mean to use it in, decide whether you want that note kept, softened or covered, and the map above gives you the blend.

Most people arrive at cannabis incense through a flavoured scent, like the idea, buy six boxes of it, and then find the cannabis note underneath is not what they expected, in either direction. The simple way to avoid that is the plain stick. One pack is fifteen sticks, which is more than enough to learn what the base is and whether you want it.

1. Burn one stick in the actual room

   Scent reads differently in a small bedroom and an open-plan living room. Light one Dry Leaves stick where you intend to burn incense, with the door closed and a window on the latch, and let it run its full thirty to forty-five minutes.

2. Decide what you want done with the base

   If you like the hay-and-resin note on its own, you are finished: this is your stick, or the HaZe Pure Dry Cannabis if you prefer a machine-made one. If you like it but want it softer, you want a rounding scent. If you want it mostly gone, a covering one.

3. Pick from the map

   Rounding: Nag Champa, Coconut or Strawberry. Lifting: Lemon or Mango. Covering: Blueberry, Chocolate, Cookies, Vanilla or Bubblegum, in roughly that order of how completely they bury the base.

4. Keep the rest for the base's own sake

   Fourteen plain sticks are not wasted. They are the stick to burn when a sweet scent has overstayed its welcome, because the dry-leaf note is quiet and fades cleanly over an evening.

What it actually smells like, and the question about the neighbours

It smells of dried plant, not burning plant: hay, cured herb and dried sage with a resinous, faintly peppery edge, and nothing in it reads as smoke or as the skunky note people associate with cannabis being used.

The honest everyday comparisons are a hay barn, a jar of dried sage, and pipe tobacco in the pouch before it is lit. All of those are cured plant material and they share the warm, sweet-dry softness that drying gives a leaf. The resinous edge is what marks it as cannabis rather than generic herb: a faint stickiness in the smell, a little pepper, a suggestion of the plant's own resin. It is quiet, and of all the scents in the range it is the one that fades most cleanly, gone from the room by the next morning rather than sitting in the curtains the way the Vanilla does.

The question people do not ask out loud is whether burning a cannabis-scented stick smells, to a neighbour or a landlord, like cannabis being smoked. It does not, and the reason is simple: this is incense smoke carrying a dried-leaf accord, and cannabis smoke smells of combustion and skunk, two things this stick does not contain. What a visitor will smell is incense, with a herbal note they may or may not place. The Fresh Leaves page answers the same question for the green version, where the answer is the same.

What the scent does through the burn is nothing dramatic. There is no volatile top note to flash off, as there is on the Lemon, and no heavy fixative to build, as there is on the Vanilla; the dry-leaf accord is middle-weight and releases evenly from the first minute to the last. The only change is the incense base itself, which reads smokier as the stick shortens and the ember nears the core. If the smoke overtakes the scent, the stick is burning too fast, and a draughty spot is usually the cause.

Dry Cannabis Leaves against the HaZe Pure Dry Cannabis, and a status split

The maker sells the same plain dried-leaf idea under its HaZe label as Pure Dry Cannabis, machine-made in the EU, and while our distributor tags this hand-rolled version as discontinued, the maker still lists it, which is not true of the other end-of-line scents.

Two plain dried-leaf sticks sit on our shelf. This one is the Multitrance-branded Cannabis Incense Sticks version, hand-rolled and described by the maker and our distributor as made in India. The other is Pure Dry Cannabis in the HaZe six-pack, produced in the European Union to a machine-consistent format; the HaZe page sets out that difference in construction and burn. The scent idea is the same. The stick is not: expect this one to be denser and smokier, and the HaZe stick thinner and cleaner.

The status of this scent is odd and worth stating exactly. Our distributor's feed tags Dry Cannabis Leaves as a discontinued line, as it does Lemon, Vanilla, Bubblegum, Chocolate and Mango. But unlike those, the maker's own Multitrance-branded incense category still lists Dry Cannabis Leaves as a current scent, alongside Blueberry, Chocolate, Cookies, Fresh Leaves and Nag Champa. So the distributor is dropping it; the maker, as far as its website shows, is not. What that means for you is that this listing may go out of stock here before the stick stops existing, and the HaZe Pure Dry Cannabis is the version we expect to keep. The whole story of the line being folded into HaZe is on our four-scent page.

No cannabis, no CBD, no THC, and sold to adults

Nothing from the hemp or cannabis plant is in this stick, so the UK 1mg controlled-cannabinoid test has nothing to measure and the stick is a room fragrance sold on this site to over-18s.

This is the scent where the point most needs making, because the name is the plant and nothing else. A dried-leaf accord is a fragrance built to smell like cured cannabis leaf; it is not cured cannabis leaf, and the maker does not claim otherwise. Our generated catalogue line calls the stick a CBD accessory, which is the importer's default wording and wrong; the Blueberry page tracks how far that mislabel has spread across retailers. It is also not the herbal incense banned under the Psychoactive Substances Act, which was a smoking product carrying synthetic cannabinoids; the HaZe page explains the difference. Light it, stand it in a holder, and that is its whole use.

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