This match consists of a main composition on top of which a small amount safety match composition is added to facilitate ignition. When struck the tip of the match flames and ignites the main composition, which burns red ht without a flame, evolving only smoke for the total composition length.

Fusee matches are primarily used in military applications for the lighting of fuses, but are also used by fire departments and bomb disposal teams. Octavius hunt can packed them in boxes of either 10 or 18 matches and can export them around the world.