Incense In The Wind

Radiating Incense In The Wind - a painting by Hai Linh Le

Thursday 10 January 2019

Tree of Life Nag Champa (discontinued)




Warm, woody and spicy. This is on a par with some of the Sifcon budget incense. These are cheap, crude sticks coated in what appears to be a masala with essential oils. The scent on the stick is actually off-putting - somewhat damp, sharp and mouldy; but when burning there is an attractive scent that informs the room with a warm and gentle sensuality. Forget the "Nag Champa" name, these are decent everyday sticks if you want to spice up a room with a warm, woody scent. These are OK.


Date: May 2019   Score: 32




The first couple of these that I burned I wasn't impressed.  There was a sort of crude earthy quality such as I find with Tibetan and Vietnamese incense where no essential oils are used, and the ingredients are perhaps a little too rustic and crude. If anything it smelled old, stale, and sort of damp. But burning another one, I am changing my mind. No, it's not a quality incense, but it's not as crude and dismissive as I originally thought. There is a woody and spicy warmth to this that is quite pleasant. The Nag Champa name appears to be purely for marketing, as I'm not getting an aroma that resembles nag champa.


Date: Jan 2019   Score: 31
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Tree of Life

Nag Champa

Vintage Incense
(Incense not available from
this brand for over a year)


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