and, yes, their web site is “retarded”… although i would choose a different adjective to describe the web site, since the word “retarded” cuts a little closer to home than i am comfortable with…

the colour of the inner packet doesn’t indicate anything except where they were able to get the material to make the inner packets for that batch of incense… i’ve seen the inner packets be white waxed paper, yellow waxed paper, heat-sealed plastic, ziplock bags… i’ve seen them wrapped in hindi newspaper… for that matter, the actual colour of the stick doesn’t make as much of a difference as most people think. when you’re talking about a durbar incense, the actual stuff that burns has no scent whatsoever. the scent comes from fragrant oils and so forth into which the sticks are dipped.

the ones you got from ebay, that were in a purple see-through packet, might have come from The Purple People, who used to carry aparajita, but ran out a few years ago.

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Ok so this Aparajita mystery just keeps getting weird. The ones I got from sitar emporium , are brown black your right, white inner packet. My friend had one in a yellow tranlucent inner packet, they were pretty much similar , but I find the white packet ones sublime. The ones I got from ebay , came in a purple seethrough packet but smelt reformulated but with burnt clove undertones it gave me a headache. A pale comparison to the white packet ones. These ones were black almost , no brown at all.