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Monday 28 April 2014

Best jasmine incense




Arabian jasmine (also known as Bel Phool) is the main jasmine flower of India - it is native to India, and has been used for hundreds of years as personal ornamentation, for flavouring tea or food, and as a fragrance. It is one of the oldest fragrance flowers cultivated by mankind. It has associations as an aphrodisiac, and is also regarded as an anti-depressant and sedative, and as an antiseptic or cleansing property. 

Synthetics are common in jasmine perfume, and some of these synthetics (or molecules) can be more expensive, rare, and desirous than naturals. In a decent quality incense it can be hard to know what is and isn't synthetic, especially when synthetics and naturals are blended (which they often are) in order to create a more potent fragrance. 

Reviews

* = Reviews over 5 years old


Shroff Incense Mogra (M)
Dec 2022 - Score: 45


GR International Jasmine (P)
 April 2018 - Score: 40*


Goloka Nature's Parijatha (M)
Feb 2017 -  Score: 35*


Tulasi Jasmine (P)
Nov 2018 -  Score: 35*


  
BIC Panchavati Gajra (PM)
Oct 2023 - Score: 33


Nandi's Madhu Mallika (M)
April 2014 -  Score: 31


HEM Precious Mogra (Jasmine) (P)
July 2014 -  Score: 31


Aargee Stamford Jasmine (cones)
May 2019 - Score: 30


D'Las Aura Jasmine
Perfumed  Score: 30

Other jasmine scents


Hari Om Divine Incense Butmogra (P)
Oct 2023 - Score: 29↓  (32)



Perfumed  Score: 28


Satya (BNG) Egyptian Jasmine
Score: 27


Ganesha incense cones
Perfume-dipped  Score: 27


Aravinda's Parijata (P)
Oct 2023 - Score: 26↓


Darshan Love in Life Jasmine
Score: 25


BIC Jasmim (P)
Oct 2021 - Score: 25


Cottage No. 12 Jasmine (M)
Oct 2023 - Score: 24 


Balaji Bel Phool Premium Incense Sticks (P)
Feb 2024 - Score: 24 



Oct 2023 - Score: 24↓


Nikhil's Nature's Blessings Raatrami (P)
Feb 2024 - Score: 23


Pan Aroma Incense Sticks
Score: 22
The sticks do have a jasmine tone to the scent - mildly fruity, faintly medicinal with a hint of camphor, and the sweet flowery perfume of jasmine. sharp in places, a little vulgar, and rather modest in smoke and aroma intensity - but it's not offensive, and works OK as a background room freshener.



Score: 21 


Score: 21



Spiritual Sky
Score: 21
Strawberry jam, and - yes - jasmine aroma on the stick. And a jasmine aroma when burned, underscored with some sandalwood and a certain amount of burning rubber - with a bit more sweet jam.

Tree of Life Jasmine
Oct 2023 - Score: 20



Nikhil's Nature's Blessings Mogra (P)
Feb 2024 - Score: 20


MDH R-pure Mogra
Score: 20
The sticks are thin, though burn at a moderate and even pace, producing a thin and modest smoke which can be a little bit sharp and hot. The aroma is warm, faint sandalwood, with wood smoke, some damp leaves, and the occasional flowery, sweet note that could point toward jasmine. It's a mild, inoffensive aroma. While there are no high points, there are equally no low points. This is a basic, cheap, workable incense. It has little to commend it other than cheapness and inoffensiveness.


Mahendra Betco Mogra
Score: 20
Artificial mogra (jasmine) perfume dipped sticks These are solidly made basic incense sticks from Mahendra Perfumery Works of Bangalore.. Handrolled from charcoal on chunky sticks which just have the tips dyed green, and then perfume dipped. There's a lack of style or grace about Mahendra's products, but in general they are decent, workable, low cost everyday incense. This one doesn't quite work for me - it's a little too assertive, and in the wrong way. It asserts its chemical origins, and makes the room smell damp and cheap and slightly off.

Aargee Jasmine (tube series)
Score: 20
Strong, smoky, and clearly chemical based. Not unpleasant, but close.

Joie Jasmine
Score: 20
Hot and crude.

Touch Mogra
Score: 19

Gokula Incense Cones Mogra
Score: 19

 
ITC Mangaldeep (Krishna Impex) Mogra (P)
Oct 2023 - Score: 18


Divine Spirit (13 scents)
Score: 18
Small cones - only 15. Jammy fruit aroma on the cone - hint of tangerine and jelly mint. Most fragrant of the Divine Spirit cones when burned, with a decent memory of the jammy fruit and tangerine, and a hint of a flowery aroma that could point toward jasmine.



Nikhil's Nature's Blessings Rajnigandha (P)
Mar 2024 - Score: 14


Number: 36
Top Score: 45
Bottom Score: 14
Average score: 27
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Jasmine v Jasmine (a burn off)


Best Scents

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for your comments and your support. Click on an advert next time! ;-)

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  2. thorough information about Jasmine Incense sticks..its truly help the incense lovers and more

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  3. Herbal incense is not an incense. It is synthetic (often fake) cannabis solvent sprayed onto a simple herb mix to smoke with the intention of getting high.

    Up to readers what they do, but it's important not to be mislead by the term "herbal incense" into thinking that this is either a natural product or something to burn in the house for any of the usual reasons for burning incense.

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  4. Thanks. Incensesticks.com is a US based company who offer what appears to be generic incense: rose, lavender, jasmine, etc. However, the sticks are charcoal and synthetic free, and are made by "fiercely independent women who share a common, rough and abusive past and have risen above the circumstances to make a better future for themselves and the generations to come."
    Sounds good to me.

    Be worth giving them a try.

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  5. Looking further, I note that the sticks are made by MerevilleTrust who are part of the Auroville community which also makes products for AOne Aromatics

    My experience of the incense is that they are a little crude and simple, but I love the idea of the Auroville community and willing to support it.



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