Multitrance Cannabis Incense Sticks, Dry Cannabis and Vanilla, 6 Packs

Vanilla is the scent incense keeps longest, and that cuts both ways

Vanilla-type materials are heavy, slow to evaporate and stable in heat, which is why a vanilla stick survives the ember intact and goes on scenting a room and its fabrics for hours, far longer than any fruit or citrus in the range.

Every stick in this range is the same green, hay-like dry cannabis base with a fragrance accord over it, and the accords behave very differently in a fire. Our Lemon page explains why citrus is the first thing to leave a stick: light, volatile molecules that flash off the ember. Vanilla is the opposite case. The character of vanilla comes from vanillin and its relatives, heavy aromatic molecules that evaporate slowly and tolerate heat, and in perfumery they are used as fixatives, materials whose job is to hold a composition together and slow everything else down. Put that in an incense stick and you get a scent that releases evenly across the whole burn, survives the smoke, and then settles into upholstery, curtains and clothes and stays there.

So of all the scents in the Multitrance-branded range, this is the one you will still smell tomorrow. That is the point of it for some people and the problem with it for others. A vanilla stick burned in a hallway on Friday evening is a faint sweetness on the coats on Monday. If you want a scent that marks a house, this is the stick; if you want a scent that comes and goes, it is the wrong one, and the Lemon or Mango sticks are the ones to look at.

What the vanilla is made from is not published. The maker gives no ingredient list for any stick in the range, and vanilla incense is normally built from vanillin and ethyl vanillin accords rather than from vanilla pods, which would be wasted in a smoulder. Expect a confectionery vanilla, sweet and slightly powdery, rather than the boozy, woody vanilla of a real pod.

15

sticks a pack, 90 in the six-pack order

30 to 45

minutes a stick burns; the scent outlasts that by hours

1st

of the Multitrance scents for how long it lingers after burning

Every scent in the range, ranked by how long it lingers

Vanilla outlasts everything, Chocolate and Cookies are close behind, the fruit scents sit in the middle, Nag Champa and the plain leaf scents fade cleanly, and Lemon is gone first.

Nobody selling these sticks ranks them this way, and it is the ranking that matters most for choosing one, because it decides whether a scent is a pleasant forty minutes or a feature of the room for the weekend. The order below follows the chemistry set out above: heavy sweet accords at the top, volatile fruit and citrus at the bottom, the plain plant scents and the Nag Champa accord in between because they are built from woods, resins and spices that sit in the middle of the range. It is our ordering of the accords, not a measurement.

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

What vanilla does to the cannabis base, and how it differs from Cookies and Chocolate

Vanilla rounds the green, peppery hay note of the base into something close to pipe-tobacco warmth, sweeter and creamier than Chocolate and plainer than the brown-sugar bakery note of Cookies.

The base is the same on all three warm scents: a dry, slightly peppery, resinous green note that smells of the dried plant rather than of anything burning. Vanilla softens it. The sweetness sits over the hay and the two together read as warm and faintly smoky, the way a vanilla-cased pipe tobacco reads, with the green still there underneath but no longer sharp. It is the most comforting scent in the range and the one least likely to be noticed as cannabis by someone walking in.

Its two nearest neighbours are the other warm sweets. Cookies adds brown sugar and a baked, slightly toasted edge to the same vanilla idea, so it reads as a biscuit tin rather than a vanilla pod; its page describes it as the bakery register. Chocolate, on the four-scent listing, swaps the creaminess for a drier cocoa-and-roast note that blends into the base more than it sits on top of it. Vanilla is the plainest and sweetest of the three and the one that lingers longest. If you cannot decide, Cookies is the middle of the warm trio; if you want the scent that stays, this is it.

Three names for one idea: Vanilla, Vanilla Kush and Vanilla Haze

The maker sells the vanilla-and-cannabis pairing under its HaZe label as Vanilla Kush, one retailer lists it as Vanilla Haze, and this Multitrance-branded Dry Cannabis and Vanilla is the end-of-line version of the same scent.

Our distributor tags this line as discontinued, and the maker's own Multitrance-branded incense category no longer lists a Vanilla scent; the story of the whole line being folded into the maker's HaZe Holland label is told on our four-scent page. The continuing version is Vanilla Kush, which is in stock in our HaZe six-pack; that page explains how the HaZe sticks differ in construction and origin, machine-made in the European Union against the hand-rolled, India-described Multitrance stick. An Austrian retailer sells what appears to be the same scent as Vanilla Haze, a third name we mention only so you recognise it. Kush and Haze on a vanilla incense are strain-flavoured branding, not strains; nothing about the stick changes with the word.

Where to burn a scent that stays

Burn vanilla where you want the room to smell of it tomorrow, a hallway or a living room, and not in a bedroom before sleep or anywhere a housemate has not agreed to it.

A scent that lingers rewards the opposite habits from one that fades. The Lemon page tells you to burn in a small closed room to hold the scent; vanilla needs the reverse. Burn it in a larger room or a hallway with a door open, so the scent spreads rather than concentrating in the soft furnishings of one small space. One stick is enough for an evening, because the sweetness builds rather than fading, and a second stick on a vanilla evening is how a house ends up smelling of a bakery for a week.

A bedroom is the one room to think twice about. The scent will be in the pillows and the duvet, and a heavy sweet note at close range through the night is not what most people want. And because vanilla is the scent most likely to be noticed by someone else and least likely to leave, it is the one to agree with the rest of the house first. Open a window afterwards; it will not clear the vanilla, but it will take the smoke out and leave the sweetness.

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

An incense stick is scented wood paste on a bamboo core and contains no cannabinoid of any kind, 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.

Our generated catalogue line calls this a CBD accessory; it is not, and our Blueberry page tracks how widely that mislabel has spread across retailers. It is also not the herbal incense banned under the Psychoactive Substances Act, which was a smoking product; the HaZe page explains the difference. Light it, stand it in a holder, and let it do what vanilla does.

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